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AMD is still better for bitcoin mining but that's a matter of integer versus floating point processing power.

• JoshTriplett 11y ago
  > AMD is still better for bitcoin mining Neither CPUs nor GPUs have any remaining relevance there, given ASIC/FPGA miners.
  • dcposch 11y ago
    Even FPGAs and older-process ASICs are unusable for Bitcoin today. The network hashpower just broke 1 exahash/second
    • ethbro 11y ago
      Side question: does anyone have links on some power bounds for what the Bitcoin network is currently consuming? Understand it would be a very rough estimate, but seems like it would be possible to arrive at some kind of number given electricity prices as a ceiling and state of the art efficiency as a floor. Curious on what the magnitude is in relation to other things...
      • voltagex_ 11y ago
        The power/monetary cost of 1 megahash is going to be different in Australia than it is in China.
        • ethbro 11y ago
          That's why I said "bounds".