Re: Is "folding proteins at home" a good comparison to "mining"
LONG time lurker. Love this website! Anyhow I find that explaining the mining process is very difficult for non-tech people to non-tech people. Stanford University does a "folding proteins at home" thing that looks similar to mining. Anyone ever heard of it and is it a good comparison?
Thanks in advance.
I think the best comparison I've heard was that mining is like solving very big sudoku puzzles. Current difficulty would set the number of lines required in the sudoku. As difficulty increases, the number of lines in the sudoku would increase. Think of a sudoku 20,000x20,000 lines... not easy to solve, but once solved, it's easy to verify with a pc. <-- I may have 'hidden' an example of proof-of-work in there too Thanks in advance.
