[GTALUG] Bitcoin Blockchain Crypto Surface

[Russell]

On August 2, 2017 10:20:15 AM EDT, Tim Tisdall <tisdall at gmail.com> wrote:
>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
>> >>
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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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>> Russell
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No I didn't have a stroke and yes they are all related in a way you are not aware of. Thats pretty obvious. 

This is a social list with technical commentary related to Linux. Mine were all sociatal comments regarding the evolution of computing tools and concurrency in technical environments with hardware which is running a linux kernel. 

Can't you just ask the question without the insulting rhetoric? It makes for a nicer environment.
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