A Hashing Game Inspired By xkcd (beatthehash.com)

submitted 3 months ago by SelfProgrammed@lemmy.today to c/programming@programming.dev

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Anybody heard of this before?

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[-] Bogasse@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Actually this sounds fun, I know how I'll waste some time this weekend :D

[-] Deebster@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago

This isn't a million miles from what bitcoin mining does, although in that case they're trying to find hashes that start with a lot of zeroes.

this post was submitted on 31 Jan 2025

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