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Prime chains

29 pointsby ibobevlast Sunday at 4:30 PM8 commentsview on HN

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OisinMorantoday at 2:00 PM

Fun! If bi-twin chains are those where +1 AND -1 are prime, I wonder what the longest chain is where either +1 OR -1 are prime. And while we're at it, why not XOR too.

MinelloGiacomotoday at 9:48 AM

This brings me back! During the second year of my bachelor's we had a group project on distributed systems, we basically had to create a blockchain with primecoin PoW, written in service oriented programming language developed at the university of Bologna called Jolie (https://www.jolie-lang.org/)

k__today at 9:34 AM

Interesting!

Does anyone know other innovative PoW chains?

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wslhtoday at 10:04 AM

If you wonder about its financial value, its market cap is around $ 2.5m [1].

[1] https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/primecoin/

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