scrypt requires a fixed amount of RAM per thread (this is one of its major features). So to make scrypt highly parallelized, you'd also need tons of RAM. (Right now, litecoin is tuned such that each thread requires only ~128kb, but even that meaningfully limits how many parallel hashes you could compute.)

That must have been a massive undertaking.

Welcome.

Admittedly, some or all of these factors would ultimately have to be true for this to succeed (and I admit that the most likely outcome, as always, is that it won't):

• Enough faster than reddit that people will prefer it on speed alone
• A community that cultivates an atmosphere that people find preferable
• Features that reddit lacks, or user-visible implementation details that are more pleasant to use

A few weeks ago I started working on something similar, an HN-style bitcoin discussion site: Ask Bitcoin

I don't see the value in these limits.

Somehow the fact that you needed to pay a bulldozer operator makes this story more interesting. It's like the old school meeting the new school in a good way.

Are different cryptocurrencies like different national currencies, or is it really winner-take-all?

What you say is true, but the core problem (I believe) is that the tool is configured to call to a non-existent URL. I'm routinely getting the message that connection to MtGox was successful, but nothing is coming through on a live basis, and I see that error that I mentioned in the console log. For me, it gets fresh data, but only when I reload the page.

I created this account to notify Clark Moody that his http://bitcoin.clarkmoody.com/ chart is currently broken; it has no live streaming.

Looking at the console log, we can see the following:


Specifically, http://stream.rtbtc.net:8008/users/info doesn't even get a DNS resolution on my computer (and on others that I've checked). This seems to be broken. Consequently, nothing loads live and the websocket does nothing. Anyone else noticing the same thing?