Quote from: The Script on May 03, 2011, 08:25:22 PM

Quote from: LiquidMiner on May 03, 2011, 07:26:32 PM

Quote from: The Script on April 28, 2011, 08:58:34 AM

I don't know much about this stuff, but based on the fact that a 5870 can get up to 2.7 Teraflops, that would make the government computer 370,370 times faster. I hear that 5870s get about 300 Mega hash/s so that means that the Exaflop computer would get like 111 MILLION Mega hash/s or 111 Tera hash/s. That's a block every 59 minutes on average, at the current difficulty level. Did I do my math right?

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The average time to generate a block at 111000000000 Khps, given current difficulty of 109670.13329248 , is 4 seconds

Hmmm, you are right.

4 seconds...

You'd basically corner the entire bitcoin generation market.

EDIT: Once the difficulty stabilized around the new block generation, you would still be making about $600K/month off of it... though I doubt you could rent it for less than that. Tongue