[Traster]

I think it's time that the government started to consider stepping in a providing support to these out of work ASICs.

[jackinloadup]

Finally, we start talking about the real issue. \s

[yjftsjthsd-h]

In the interest of hijacking this into a productive discussion: Does anyone know if it's possible to use BTC ASICs for anything else? It's just a lot of sha256 hardware, right? Can we use it for arbitrary checksumming?

[RL_Quine]

Absolutely not. They’re application specific as the name implies. They can not do anything else.

[SilasX]

Nah, they didn’t lobby enough or enmesh themselves in mutually-assured destruction points in the economy, therefore they can be left to wither on the vine like normal people.