# Summary of #hplusroadmap IRC Log (Dec 9, 2016)

• A news article was shared about the U.S. Senate passing legislation that boosts Biden's cancer moonshot initiative while weakening FDA drug testing requirements, indicating interest in regulatory changes affecting medical research.

• Kanzure mentioned developing a method to re-enable CPU mining for Bitcoin that would allow miners to earn fractional amounts proportional to their hashrate, making mining accessible to those with less powerful hardware.

• Discussion about Bitcoin mining economics covered the relationship between hashrate, energy consumption, and profitability, with participants debating whether solar-powered mining could be viable.

• A conversation about 3D model slicing techniques explored methods for converting 3D geometric representations to 2D geometric paths, including ray tracing and LIDAR-like simulation approaches for generating toolpaths.

• Amazon's "Snowmobile" data transfer service was highlighted - an exabyte-scale solution using a 45-foot shipping container with extensive security measures for physically transferring up to 100PB of data to AWS.

• SDR (Software Defined Radio) hardware recommendations were discussed, with options ranging from $9 RTL-SDR dongles to more expensive equipment like the USRP B200mini, with notes about heat sinking affecting performance at higher frequencies.

• A McLaren report was mentioned that implicated more than 1000 Russian athletes in state-sponsored doping, suggesting interest in performance enhancement and its regulation.