This is like saying:
“Just because your car has 300 horsepower doesn’t mean it can replace 300 horses.”
Everyone knows it’s not literal.
That’s what exaflop meant.
DEX soon
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This is where Exaflopcat was born.
“FLOP” means floating point operations per second.
Then ASICs took over.
ASICs don’t do floating point operations at all. They just smash bits as efficiently as possible.
So the analogy completely breaks. You can’t turn ASIC hashpower into FLOPs in any meaningful way.
But the number stuck. And so did the meme.
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I found something crazy and I can't believe this has never bonded.
Back when Bitcoin hashpower crossed “1 exaflop”, people started throwing around supercomputer words like it meant something literal. Then someone posted a stupid red MS Paint cat next to the stats.
That cat became $Exaflopcat.
Not because Bitcoin actually does exaflops but because early crypto loved bad analogies, big numbers, and worse drawings.
https://t.co/YMbykqXIHB
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