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Riecoin: A Cryptocurrency With a Scientific Proof of Work

Posted by timothy on from the slashcoin-is-only-weeks-away dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Enter decentralized, open source mining with the first scientific proof of work. Riecoin is a decentralized (p2p), open source digital currency. Proof of work is about finding Hardy-Littlewood k-tuples. Ultimately miners are verifying the Riemann hypothesis. Unlike for Primecoin the probability of accepting a false positive goes to zero as the network grows. Primecoin uses Fermat Test which runs the risk of accepting so called Carmichael numbers. Riecoin uses a stronger test to ensure correctness."

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  1. Re:How much are they worth? by jones_supa · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wrong coin, dumbass. Still cool link tho.

  2. Re:Fools by SpankiMonki · · Score: 4, Funny

    The inability to intelligently regulate the value of the currency in accordance with the economic needs of the society is a bug, not a feature.

    Mod parent up, please! It's a good thing that government issued currencies are intelligently regula....oh wait...

  3. Re:How much are they worth? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    You should talk to a psychologist.

  4. Re:Time for an ecologically sound cryptocurrency by pjt33 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ah, Slashdot at its best: comments by people who haven't even read TFS.