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		mlcrypto on Nov 9, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mark Twain playing with electricity in Nikola Tesl... Is there a way to use the Bitcoin hash rate to solve more meaningful problems than SHA-256 while still being cryptographically secure? Imagine if we could send math problems to the Bitcoin network, is this possible?

jacobush on Nov 9, 2019 [–]

The closest anyone has found is PrimeCoin, which might have a slight usability to it.

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