Cryptocoin mining is embarrassingly parallel by its nature. You are trying lots of different inputs to a hash function, so you can always run an arbitrary numbe

Cryptocoin mining is embarrassingly parallel by its nature. You are trying lots of different inputs to a hash function, so you can always run an arbitrary number of them in parallel. There are various ways to reduce the GPU/FPGA/ASIC advantage, like requiring lots of RAM, but the task is still parallel if you have enough RAM. Something like a JavaScript JIT on the other hand is fundamentally hard to parallelize.