Common Lisp Blockchain - Scheme Coin

[David McClain]

It seems to me that, instead of performing totally useless computations for POW, a group like CERN might enlist the miners to search for W-Boson events from their detector trails, or astronomers might enlist the mining enclaves to search for SETI events… (no joke…)

- DM

> On Dec 18, 2017, at 23:03, Antoniotti Marco <antoniotti.marco at disco.unimib.it> wrote:
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>> On Dec 18, 2017, at 23:54 , Pascal Bourguignon <pjb at informatimago.com> wrote:
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>>> On 18 Dec 2017, at 23:31, David McClain <dbm at refined-audiometrics.com> wrote:
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>>> umm… was this supposed to be some kind of joke? I’ll bite... I don’t get it. I was actually hoping to learn something here...
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>>> But the code does look rather peculiar on close inspection. Why the use of macros for pushing new transaction blocks? And the conversions to octet vectors may work for strings, but not in general for arbitrary integer or float values…
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>>> If it is supposed to be a joke, I’ll chuckle and just chuck the code…
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>> I guess not: https://dev.to/damcosset/trying-to-understand-blockchain-by-making-one-ce4
>> It’s like, everybody will be busy implementing blockchains.  It’s the new fizz-buzz…
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> … or planting tulips :) :) :)
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> Cheers
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> MA
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> Marco Antoniotti

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