Quote from: nabeton on April 20, 2014, 08:21:54 AM

Quote from: coinnewbit on April 20, 2014, 08:00:54 AM

Quote from: nabeton on April 20, 2014, 07:49:58 AM

I'm just curious what hash power would reach an Univesity professor (mathematician), making calculations on paper?
Would he be able to make at least one share?

and what would be easier for him to solve, scrypt or sha?

thanks for your opinions

I believe the problems are only for computers.

Understand, because it's too complicated, right?
At least some microhash he could produce, or not even that?

for instance, how would 16K share written on paper look like.
A book of 10 pages or 10 000 pages?

Just make one yourself and see how long it would take you.

sha 256 is explained here:

http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cavp/documents/shs/sha256-384-512.pdf

Take block 296778 (hash is: 00000000000000003cb6a19e5354ed4a4ade50ceecb8ee3176dfab4d7e275150)

All 473 transactions are listed here: https://blockchain.info/block-index/394826/00000000000000003cb6a19e5354ed4a4ade50ceecb8ee3176dfab4d7e275150