@netikras Hahahah XD, feels like it sometimes! It's a pocket door, so it slides into the wall to the right.

@steaksauce Lol, I think I wasn't specific enough :p. That is correct, but I mean on an HDD does reading and writing a bit take the same amount of energy on that hard drive? What about SSD, do reading and writing bits take the same energy as each other on that device?

@LeFlawk Yes, the actual transaction itself can only be hashed by the private key using the Tr, Ts, and Tw values it generates. My goal is to theoretically encrypt data using the public key as a symmetric key similar to AES. What I need to figure out is how to get the full 256 bits of the public key given an address.

@skprog So the example is very useful. It doesn't quite express what I'm after. I want to record the time arbitrarily within a multi-thread environment, so joining may not be viable being it only happens between 2 threads.

Does that make sense? Let me know if I'm not being clear.

So my initial question was centered more around Java, which doesn't use Threads like the OS level. The JVM scheduler manages their priority to maintian "fairness". That's my understand at least, which could be wrong.

I want to know only the time spent by thread A on it's execution. B,D,C,etc. could take 6 years, but if A takes 4 seconds I want to get that value not 6y4s.

I judge people by if what comes out of their mouth is real or they're just bullshitting to look smart. Beyond that, tabs for days.

@shdw Excellent! Thank you!