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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Bitcoin network is in serious danger - 8.2 petaflop/s by “K Computer”
by
makomk
on 20/06/2011, 20:28:01 UTC
Measuring in flops is silly, hashes don't use and floating point operations. Anyway, using your numbers, that means that the network is 103 petaflops, so another 8 isn't that much.
DamienBlack, I'm quoting a respectful source -  http://www.bitcoinwatch.com/

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Network Hashrate Gigahashs/s - 8166.60
Network Hashrate TeraFLOP/s - 103716

I'm sorry you think this is trolling.
That TeraFLOP/s figure on the Bitcoin Watch front page is meaningless and bears no resemblence to anything whatsoever; it's just there so users can boast about how powerful the network of Bitcoin mining rigs is. I kinda wish they didn't have it because it just causes confusion.