Bitcoin: Currency of the future! Speculative bubble! Somewhere in between those two! Wherever you stand on the viability of the hot-button crypto-currency, chances are you’ve seen (and potentially been beguiled by) references to Bitcoin mining, the process by which hyper-powerful computers work through a series of hyper-complicated computations in hopes of stumbling across some digital gold.
The whole process is a little difficult to wrap your head around, but fortunately, the good folks at Wired have been mining BTC for a little while now and logging the process. There’s even a livestream showing the mining happening, which you can watch above. Warning: it is very boring.
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Musician and visual artist Brendan Fowler is performing And Martin this afternoon at MoMA Atrium. Presented in conjunction with MoMA's New Photography 2013, the exhibit expands on the artist's previous musical project BARR, for which he became known in the early 2000s. It consisted of Fowler singing and talking over his iPod, transitioning…
Remember the busy-work worksheets your math teacher assigned you in grade school? Well, if you want that tedious feeling back -- without even a single gold star sticker as a reward -- then electronics blogger Ken Shirriff has made a video just for you. Watch him “mine Bitcoin” with pen…
