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.
As I understand having a complete list of huge primes would compromise a lot of systems, not just bitcoin itself.
Would you mind giving a brief summary of why that is so?
In this case, Primecoin isn't a passive alternative to Bitcoin but a hostile competitor?