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Ask HN: "Order of Magnitude”?

3 pointsby sahil50about 3 years ago
I noticed Satoshi Nakamoto used the phrase &quot;order of magnitude&quot; a lot. Like Elon Musk. What do people think?<p>&quot;I thought it would be impractical if the block chain, bitcoin addresses, disk space and bandwidth requirements were all an order of magnitude bigger.&quot;<p>&quot;RSA can do both, but I didn’t use it because it’s an order of magnitude bigger and would have been impractical.&quot;<p>&quot;I know for competitive reasons the inclination is to keep it to yourself, but it could get an order of magnitude more use if anyone could give proxy access to their country just by putting the software on a server.&quot;<p>&quot;Setting up the buffer takes an order of magnitude longer than the actual hashing if you’re only hashing one or two blocks like we do.&quot;<p>&quot;The new efficient single-pass algorithm is orders of magnitude quicker.&quot;<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fsatoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org%2Fposts%2Fbitcointalk+%22order+of+magnitude%22

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verdvermabout 3 years ago
Why are you stuck on this idea that Elon is Satoshi? All of your evidence is very flimsy.<p>How many people say factor of 10, order of magnitude, and bloody? Why have you not considered them as potential Satoshis?<p>You previously asked this and got a similar response.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=30441927" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=30441927</a>
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PaulHouleabout 3 years ago
It means a &quot;factor of 10&quot;.<p>I&#x27;ll let it slide if it is really a factor of 8 or 9. If it is factor of 2 it does not apply.
sahil50about 3 years ago
Also &quot;bloody&quot;<p>&quot;Writing a description for this thing for general audiences is bloody hard.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org&#x2F;posts&#x2F;bitcointalk&#x2F;threads&#x2F;79&#x2F;?view=satoshi" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org&#x2F;posts&#x2F;bitcointalk&#x2F;thre...</a><p>&quot;Bloody hell, I’m going to have to write a blog. Can’t fit this into tweets.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;elonmusk&#x2F;status&#x2F;943887056492564480" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;elonmusk&#x2F;status&#x2F;943887056492564480</a>