[GTALUG] Bitcoin Blockchain Crypto Surface

[Tim Tisdall]

Uh...  ...  did you just have a stroke?  Or is EMACS Pinky, Itanium and
Bitcoin Cash all related in some way I'm not aware of?

On 2 August 2017 at 10:03, Russell <rreiter91 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
> >
> >> Now ... Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping
> >>
> >> Things just got tougher for little miners.
> >>
> >> http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-40800270
> >>
> >> --
> >> Russell
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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?
> --
> Russell
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