[GTALUG] Bitcoin Blockchain Crypto Surface

[Russell]

On August 2, 2017 9:17:21 AM EDT, Tim Tisdall <tisdall at gmail.com> wrote:
>It's "up to" 8MB.  The first block was about 2MB and the rest have been
>much much smaller:  https://cash.coin.dance/blocks#blockDetails
>
>On 2 August 2017 at 09:11, Russell via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
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>> Now ... Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping
>>
>> Things just got tougher for little miners.
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>> http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-40800270
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Just wait a while. It will take time for EMACS pinky to set in. 

Kitson was recently announced to be the last of Itanium hardware, it looks like the blockchain world is sizing up as a battle of the cuda cores.

https://www.google.ca/amp/www.pcworld.com/article/3169623/components-processors/intel-ships-latest-itanium-chip-called-kittson-but-grim-future-looms.amp.html

I wonder if you would call Itanium an EPIC fail or just a bump in the VLIW hiway?
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