[jliptzin]

I hate when cryptomining is described as "solving extremely complex mathematical problems." That makes it sound like math professors gathering around a conference table burning the midnight oil trying to crack a formula when in reality it's just trying to crack a safe by randomly guessing the code over and over again - nothing complex about it.

[marktangotango]

I get your point, the calculations are generally just arithmetic, but there are in fact many cryptologist who spend a lot of time and effort understanding these algorithms and finding ways to "crack" them.

[jliptzin]

You mean they are trying to break the underlying cryptographic hash algorithms?

[tromp]

They mean very complex in the sense of very difficult. Which finding a hash output with over 75 leading 0 bits most certainly is.

[jliptzin]

That’s as much of a “math problem” as winning the lottery is a “math problem”

[InCityDreams]

>burning the midnight oil

Deliberate?

[jliptzin]

Maybe :)