Bitcoin Is 100 Times More Powerful Than Google

[Zippyjuan]

https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/bitc...werful-google/

More powerful in terms of the massive amounts of computer power being used for bitcoins.

Google is big, but Bitcoin is bigger. How big is it?

Honestly, I looked online to find out what a petahash rate and a gigahash rate was, and that is one long rabbit hole, so I’ll leave the technical ramble to techies like Mr. Srinivasan. He makes the comparison to Google based on the fair assumption that they are using 1e7 servers, for 1e7 H/s per Xeon, and ~10 Xeons/server = 1 PH/s. One petahash equals 1,000,000 gigahash or 1000 terahashes. Bitcoin reached 1 PH/s of computing power/speed on September 15th, 2013. It is now normally working at over 350 PH/s, or over 350,000,000 GH/s.

“All of Google today would represent less than 1% of all of mining (Bitcoin operations worldwide). The sheer degree of what is happening in (Bitcoin) mining is not being appreciated by the press,” said Balaji Srinivasan at the Bitcoin Job Fair. “If we assume there are 10 million Google servers, and each of these servers is running, you can multiply that through and get one petahash. If they turned off all of their data centers and pointed them at Bitcoin (mining network), they would be less than 1% of the network.”

[dannno]

When typing in all caps, always remember to change the spelling of the word "MORE" TO "MOAR"

[Zippyjuan]

I just copied it as it was at the site.

[RonPaulIsGreat]

Not a valid comparison at all. They are comparing generalized CPU's to ASICs. It's not nearly as impressive when 1 asic miner can hash more than dozens of high end computers, and that 1 asic costs like 500 bucks, compared to a 100K worth of servers.