HNGlance

Top Best New Show

Show HN: Bitcoin Target: A weekend project to understand targets and difficulty

http://btctarget.com/

by Two9A • 13 years ago

2 2 13 years ago

BT

Related Stories

Loading related stories...

Comments

2

simonebrunozzi• 13 years ago

Can you explain what happens on the site, with more details? First impression is that you're using my compute power (browser) to find the next bitcoin.

Two9A• 13 years ago

There's no mining happening in the browser. My inspiration was CSI's "visual aids", where a computer will look like it's grinding through a database but not actually be doing any work.

So the red "random" hashes are exactly that: random numbers. The site just listens out for broadcasts on the Bitcoin network, and displays them when they show up.

Source preview

btctarget.com

HNGlance

© 2024-2026 HN Glance. Story content belongs to its original sources.

Privacy
Terms