C.<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@untakenusername" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>untakenusername</span></a></span> </p><p>A cryptocurrency doesn't actually need a network of computers, or even an electronic, electromechanical, or mechanical computer.</p><p>All you really need is something to do math. Traditional "computers", meaning humans, could do it with nothing but paper and pencil if necessary. It would be slow, but assuming you used hash/key sizes and algorithms sized to the "technology" you were using, it would be doable.</p><p>A room full of experienced abacus users might actually have a decent "hash rate" with properly chosen technical parameters ...</p><p>👨 🧮 👩 🧮 👳 🧮 👲 🧮 </p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/abacus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>abacus</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/computer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>computer</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/paper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paper</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/pencil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pencil</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/calculation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>calculation</span></a></p>