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by Tuna-Fish 4812 days ago
> But when we consider the consuming power of ASIC platform, I think this board has strength.

No, it can't possibly have.

SHA is half bitshifts-by-constants. On an ASIC platfrom, those essentially refactor to no-ops. There is no way, no how general-purpose hardware could ever possibly get anywhere near even a piss-poor special purpose ASIC for this task. If you think otherwise you simply don't understand the domain. Those 600-watt ASIC systems contain multiple chips and run at tens of GHashes/s. That 5-watt chip, if it's very, very good, might maybe break 40MHash/s.