# Summary of #hplusroadmap IRC Log (Feb 23, 2014)

* Kanzure shared information about "The Liberator," a web crawler project designed to scrape scientific papers from publishers' websites and distribute them through a torrent network, though he expressed skepticism about the feasibility of getting enough people to seed the content.

* Discussion about scientific paper archiving revealed that storing all scientific articles ever published would require approximately 50TB of storage (estimated at 1MB per PDF × 50 million papers).

* The conversation explored the technical and legal challenges of hosting a comprehensive scientific paper repository, including anonymity concerns, payment methods for secure servers, and jurisdictional considerations.

* Paperbot, an existing paper retrieval system (https://github.com/kanzure/paperbot), was demonstrated in the channel, with users able to request papers by URL and receive PDF links in response.

* The conversation shifted to cryptocurrency mining, particularly discussing how scrypt-based currencies (like Litecoin and Dogecoin) were still viable for GPU mining, with notes that FPGA implementations exist and ASIC implementations were being developed.

* The increasing hash rate of the Bitcoin network was discussed as a security feature that makes attacks more costly, though it creates barriers to entry for new miners.