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Bitcoin mining, our own Simon Rockman wrote last January, is essentially a brute-force attack on the generating algorithm. <\/p>\n
Bitcoin, and all the other alt-coins, is training a skillset for building password-cracking hardware that is both powerful and portable, he wrote. <\/p>\n
It looks like cryptocurrencies are also helping to spot some useful prime numbers, according to the folks behind Riecoin. <\/p>\n
Riecoin is a fork of Bitcoin and offers the chance for distributed or standalone mining. Participating in currency's gestation also has a by-product of highly-verified prime sextuplets. As the Riecoin folk note, there's a US$1million prize up for grabs for anyone who can prove The Riemann Hypothesis' suggestion that prime numbers occur in some sort of pattern. <\/p>\n
As prime numbers are rather handy when encrypting data, there's some value in knowing more about them. Detail-oriented Reg readers will, by now, have noted that Riecoin and Riemann Hypothesis are rather similar: that's no accident, as the currency is named in homage to the mathematician. <\/p>\n
Riecoin claims that its cluster of distributed coiners have, during November, twice broken the world record for creating a prime sextuplet, a collection of six prime numbers packed together as tightly as possible. <\/p>\n
On November 17 the Riecoin swarm cranked out a sextuplet in 70 minutes. A week later, it beat that record and produced longer primes while doing so. There's more detail about Riecoin and the maths behind it in this FAQ. <\/p>\n
Riecoin's also a cryptocurrency and is traded on several exchanges, at a value of about 0.0000175 bitcoin. <\/p>\n
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