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yjftsjthsd-h
2282 days ago
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?
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RL_Quine
2282 days ago
Absolutely not. They’re application specific as the name implies. They can not do anything else.
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