Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper [jj00_ZboXgu]

Bitcoins are mined using a cryptographic algorithm called SHA-256. This algorithm is simple enough to be done with pencil and paper, as I show in this video. Not surprisingly, this is a thoroughly impractical way to mine. One round of the algorithm takes 16 minutes, 45 seconds which works out to a hash rate of 0.67 hashes per day. For details, see #bitcoins energy consumption #bitcoin prijs #aktueller bitcoin kurs live