{"id":2125,"date":"2014-10-10T23:58:01","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T18:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/?p=2125"},"modified":"2022-06-16T15:17:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T09:47:02","slug":"instead-of-wasting-time-playing-sudoku-you-should-mine-bitcoins-with-pencil-and-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/instead-of-wasting-time-playing-sudoku-you-should-mine-bitcoins-with-pencil-and-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Instead of wasting time playing Sudoku you should mine Bitcoins with Pencil and Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.righto.com\/2014\/09\/mining-bitcoin-with-pencil-and-paper.html\">blog post<\/a> on how this can be done. Apparently it is a slow process but the algorithms for Bitcoin generation are easy enough to crunch. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The SHA-256 algorithm is surprisingly simple to do by hand,&#8221; Shirriff said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In comparison, current Bitcoin mining hardware does several terahashes per second, about a quintillion times faster than my manual hashing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All I can say is, go for it if you like crunching numbers&#8230; I know I won&#8217;t. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/go.theregister.com\/feed\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2014\/09\/30\/mine_bitcoins_with_pencil_and_paper\/\">Theregister.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Suramya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,19,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-related","category-computer-security","category-techie-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2125"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2147,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125\/revisions\/2147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}