Is bitcoin the world’s first (highly specialized) yottascale computer?

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I’ve read that one bitcoin hash uses 12,700 floating point operations. The bitcoin network, as of writing, is roughly 9*10^19 hashes per second. I plugged the numbers from difficulties in the past in, and this milestone appears to have been reached in mid-August. (The minimum hashrate is 7.7*10^19 per second.) note: the yottascale is 10^24 flops or more

Barryminer

Posted 2019-11-29T17:13:47.787

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2This is nonsense. Bitcoin mining doesn't use any floating point operations at all.Pieter Wuille 2019-11-29T17:16:11.890

1Equivalent ops!!Barryminer 2019-11-29T17:18:27.340

5There is no such thing. Bitcoin mining hardware can do one thing and one thing only. You cannot usefully express it as equivalent to any metric other than "speed of Bitcoin hashing".Pieter Wuille 2019-11-29T17:20:31.850

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