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Both bitcoin and litecoin are both far faster on ASICs. CrytoNight (Monero) is designed to be harder for ASICs but it is early days, I would expect new chips to
by angry_octet 10y ago
Both bitcoin and litecoin are both far faster on ASICs. CrytoNight (Monero) is designed to be harder for ASICs but it is early days, I would expect new chips to make a significant improvement over GPUs. Since the memory requirement is only a few MB there is no need for access to large memories or a PCIe bus, and they will continue using ethernet.
https://bytecoin.org/blog/proof-of-work-part-2/ https://bytecoin.org/blog/proof-of-work-part-2/
- kobeya 10y agoThere are many others that do not (yet) have ASIC implementations.
- angry_octet 10y agoBut does anyone use them? And do they use any schemes that are not (a) a basic hash, (b) some scrypt scheme? Any reason why you wouldn't just put 3 GPUs in a regular chassis and be done for a quarter of the price?
- wolrah 10y ago> Any reason why you wouldn't just put 3 GPUs in a regular chassis and be done for a quarter of the price? Not a *coiner but I can guessL With most motherboards even 3 GPUs will require you to have the cards right up next to each other. This is not great for cooling, which is important when you have the GPUs cranking away at full bore. Also you can only get 4 GPUs at max in to a normal size PC case. With these you can have a single host PC running 16+ GPUs.