Do you like to play Sudoko? If so then you should look at using paper and pencil to mine Bitcoins instead and make some money out of your hobby. A bloke named Ken Shirriff who is an engineer at google has created a video and a detailed blog post on how this can be done. Apparently it is a slow process but the algorithms for Bitcoin generation are easy enough to crunch.
Shirriff completed a round of SHA-256 in 16 minutes and 45 seconds at which rate a full Bitcoin block would take about a day and a half, less with more practice, he said.
“The SHA-256 algorithm is surprisingly simple to do by hand,” Shirriff said.
“In comparison, current Bitcoin mining hardware does several terahashes per second, about a quintillion times faster than my manual hashing.
All I can say is, go for it if you like crunching numbers… I know I won’t. 🙂
Source: Theregister.com
– Suramya