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Parent was presumably leaving unsaid "... at scale", aka enough to move a chunk of the hash power.
by ethbro 9y ago
Parent was presumably leaving unsaid "... at scale", aka enough to move a chunk of the hash power.
- stevedc3 9y agoThanks yes I totally meant scale. Main cost of new ASIC chips is design and fabrication. Only serve a very narrow specific purpose and all that cost is sunk. But after that, unit production chip cost is negligible.
- arthurcolle 9y agodo you happen to know b/e costs given difficulty/profitability ratio using current market electricity prices?