[r3drock]

This would probably not work since bitcoin miners are all ASICs these days.

[mehrdadn]

I feel like the question was just trying to see how much computation would help, rather than whether the chips are actually capable of doing it.

[Dylan16807]

It's a reasonable question, but it's hard to evaluate the processing power of those chips because of how very specific those circuits are.

[belltaco]

He said "was used". Bitcoin was run on CPUs and GPUs for a long time. Ethereum and other coins are still good on PCs i think.

[RL_Quine]

It definitely would not work, they can do nothing except a partial SHA256 hash- not even a complete one.