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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Bitman OP 8 Dec 2023 \ on: Who knows more about Satoshi's GPU 'Gentlemen's Agreement' idea bitcoin
I thought that the mention of GPUs (presumably mining Bitcoin) that it would be a reference to Laszlo Hanyecz mining bitcoin using GPUs before anyone else (Laszlo mined so much that he bought 2 pizzas for 10,000 bitcoin).
However, it seems that Laszlo's discovery might have happened the following year, in 2010, exactly six months later.
Updated Mac OS X binary which uses OpenCL
It will use your GPU to generate bitcoins. This works really well if you have a good GPU like an NVIDIA 8800 or something like that. So far I only have it for Mac OS and only for 10.6+. 10.5 didn't have OpenCL yet so if you're using 10.5 stay with the previous release.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=124
If that's correct, does this mean that Laszlo wasn't the first to use GPUs to mine bitcoin?
If only it wasn't Friday night, and @DarthCoin wasn't on the beer, he might have jumped in (I seem to remember that he knew bitcointalk well enough to know who the forum user themadhatter was in one of my previous post).
Maybe I'll have to wait till tomorrow to hear back from him...
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 8 Dec 2023
Sorry, I am not so expert in mining stuff. Yes I was mining in the early years of Bitcoin, but then was really simple. Nowadays is much much complicated and I will not be able to answer this. Sorry, when I do not know stuff, is just STFU.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bitman OP 8 Dec 2023
Okay, thanks dude.
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