I’d like to extract the most performance possible from oclvanitygen. Can anyone tell me what the best practices are with this tool? Examples may include: Use operating system X, or video card Y Ensure that […]

I’m toying with the idea of starting to mine, and was wondering how to calculate how many hashes on average must be tried before one will “hit” a valid block? I’m talking about a single […]

As I understand things, the security and integrity of Bitcoin rely on the assumption that its hashing is “hard” in some sense. However, in the past, processing power has increased exponentially. This has made some […]