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Expanded a bit my answer. IMVHO, ASIC hardware provides such a huge efficiency boost that even if everybody in this planet ran a mining raspberry pi, the ASIC
by knocte 9y ago
Expanded a bit my answer.
IMVHO, ASIC hardware provides such a huge efficiency boost that even if everybody in this planet ran a mining raspberry pi, the ASIC manufacturers would maybe still own more than 51% of the hashrate.
- flashdance 9y agoNot maybe, definitely. A first-gen pi can mine at 200KH/s [1], and a 3rd gen pi is roughly 10x faster in cpu tests [2]. At 2 MH/s per pi, times 7 billion people, you get a paltry 14 petahashes/s. That's a hair over 0.2% of the network... You'd need three trillion raspberry pis to get half the network. Good luck with that! [1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Non-specialized_hardware_comparison https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Non-specialized_hardware_comparis... [2] http://lifehacker.com/how-the-raspberry-pi-3-benchmarks-against-older-models-1762417275 http://lifehacker.com/how-the-raspberry-pi-3-benchmarks-agai...
- knocte 9y agoThanks so much for that analysis! My mind was not that irrational then when making that guess :)