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Re: Bitcoin network is in serious danger - 8.2 petaflop/s by “K Computer”
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MoonShadow
on 20/06/2011, 20:32:38 UTC
Quote from: makomk on June 20, 2011, 08:28:01 PM
Quote from: becoin on June 20, 2011, 07:37:22 PM
Quote from: DamienBlack on June 20, 2011, 07:25:19 PM
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.

The TeraFLOP's number is an estimate based off of the hashing ratios of common cpus and their FLOP's as benchmarked.  It can be inaccurate, but not by that much.