Prime gaps and Gapcoin
The Endeavour 2026-01-19
Summary:
The previous post looked at tightly clustered primes. This post looks at the opposite, large gaps between primes. Riecoin is a cryptocurrency that uses finding prime clusters as its proof of work task. Gapcoin uses finding prime gaps as its proof of work task. There’s some nuance to defining prime gaps. It’s trivial to produce […]
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