RE: Onwards and Upwards26 Jan 2025 14:58
You missed the bit in the article, which is the key to QBTs claim, that the method is not predicting the winner, eliminating the potential losers early on to improve efficiency:
Without further details, it is hard to say anything really useful about this,β Edgar Weippl, professor of security and privacy at the University of Vienna, told FTAV:
In general terms, I would think itβs possible to not calculate the entire hash to see if it starts with the required numbers of 0 for bitcoin but to break early and thus save time/energy. I would imagine that this can be done on a hardware level [β.β.β.β]. However, this would then only apply to bitcoin and very similar cryptos. and only [until] they decide to change the hash algorithm.