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Finally! Just when I thought everyone had moved their spare compute to more lucrative schemes.

It’s the longest wait for a new mersenne prime since the discovery of M32 in 1992.

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amazing how many bitcoins have been discovered since then. Satoshi should've incentivized mining something useful.

Are these high Mersenne primes all that useful?

I've been thinking there should actually be more useful (or at least more interesting? :P) crowd computing stuff.

How about something like Superoptimizing (with correctness proofs) open source code?

I think there's actually a fair number of them, but more would be nice. Lots of protein folding ones, and there used to be a weather/climate related couple.

every new prime for new block, but not linear.

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