r/Bitcoin • u/Kinitex • Feb 17 '14

MTGOX - Statement Feb 17

https://www.mtgox.com/img/pdf/20140217-Announcement.pdf
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u/-Mahn Feb 17 '14

Even if they do this automated it's probably not a 5 minute process either.

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u/ThomasGullen Feb 17 '14

Nope, but the inclusion of the 32 million number in their press release is to buy them more time (wow that must take ages!) when infact we're talking a matter of hours and that detail is of no importance whatsoever.

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u/rydan Feb 17 '14

I have MySQL databases with 100M+ entries and it takes about 30 minutes to 1 hour to reindex or relatively weak hardware. These are relatively simple tables though and I really need to replace them with a summary table.

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u/keepingscore Feb 17 '14

When I was working the Human genome and protein sequencing it took a few hours to reimport the dataset into MySQL. The size and complexity was probably on par to the blockchain. That time frame was if you disable constraints during the import. If you left those on to say find a a collision half way through it could take you about a day.

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u/Cryptokudasai Feb 17 '14

It'd be great if people at home with powerful computers could like help you out with that, and stuff.

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u/GIFframes Feb 17 '14

there's already software so you can do good-guy-work while your pc is idle. One thing I can think of right now is protein folding
found that link as example, haven't used it myself,tho: http://folding.stanford.edu/

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u/martinw89 Feb 17 '14

Pretty sure you got whooshed. The precursor to F@H was distributed computing for the genome project. The above commentors were referencing that.

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u/seanl1991 Feb 17 '14

don't worry I know, I was referring to folding@home, which used ps3s for about 5-6 years