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Re:Why Charles Stross Doesn’t Know a Thing about Bitcoin by maxerickson on Thursday January 09, 2014 @09:12AM (#7030529)
The network hash rate is currently about 13,000,000 Gigahash / second.

That unit does 1.6 Gigahash / second.

The bitcoin earned in a period of time will roughly follow that proportion.

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Re:Why Charles Stross Doesn’t Know a Thing about Bitcoin by dllthomas on Thursday January 09, 2014 @09:35AM (#7030649)
A piece that's missing is the total bitcoins earned, which depends on payout size (possibly including transaction fees) and difficulty.
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Re:Why Charles Stross Doesn’t Know a Thing about Bitcoin by maxerickson on Thursday January 09, 2014 @09:53AM (#7030747)
Right. I figured the part where it represents something like a 1 in 8 million stake in the mined bitcoin answered most of the question.
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