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by majke 3492 days ago
Bitcoin mining. WPA2 brute forcing.

Maybe someone will finally find the triple-des password used at adobe for password hashing.

The possibilities are endless :)

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Mining is unlikely, with bitcoin at least. Bitcoin passed the FPGA stage and moved onto ASICs many years ago. There are some alt coins that are currently best mined on GPUs though and this may change that or put their claims to a real test.
The boards used for this preview do not have enough memory bandwidth to pose even a modest threat to the latest batch of memory-hard GPU PoW algos.