Some time ago I built a mining rig for mining crypto-currencies ('Ether' to be more precise). I am not going to explain all the technical details, but it's a very powerful computer that does only one thing: Running a so-called hashing algorithm. Hashing is the transformation of an input into a usually shorter fixed-length output … Continue reading FIRE Aside: Building A Vintage Vacuum Tube Radio Receiver
Bitcoin And How To Keep The House Clean
In this post I will try to explain a bit more about Bitcoin by using real life analogies. It will be far from scientific, very incomplete and won't contain any detailed technical descriptions of the underlying protocol. But I do hope it will shed some light on the subject for those of you who are … Continue reading Bitcoin And How To Keep The House Clean