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Re: [XPM] [ANN] Primecoin Prerelease Announcement - Introducing Prime Proof-of-Work
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mustyoshi
on 07/07/2013, 15:57:28 UTC
Where is the scientific use of prime number chains?

The discover of new prime numbers as I understand.
In the white paper it describes only using prime numbers which can be easily verified, so that rules out actively searching for large prime numbers, doesn't it?

Dude, verifying a number is prime is easy.
Well, I guess the white paper is pretty vague on the limits.
So we'll see what the actual limits are in a couple of hours.
When I discovered this coin last night, I had hoped it would be finding all prime numbers so that eventually bitcoin could be attacked using the prime numbers found by this coin.

Which would be poetic, imho.