Quote from: Bitcopia on June 25, 2014, 04:06:02 AM

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Currently, the computing power on the Bitcoin network is 1.35 zetta flops (sextillion FLoating-point Operations Per Second). That is 5,000 times greater than the power of all of the worlds fastest 500 supercomputers combined.

Wow. Is this accurate? I don't know much about flops and computer power, but I was under the impression the hashrate was about 135 petaflops. Either way, this is quite a massive achievement!

Hashing doesn't actually involve any floating-point operation. Measuring hashing power in FLOPS just doesn't make sense.

That said, the Bitcoin network is very likely to be the biggest distributed computing project ever created...