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So an ASIC chip basically like what mines most of the Bitcoins these days?
So an ASIC chip basically like what mines most of the Bitcoins these days?
The architecture...
Application Specific Integrated Circuit, so yes but no.
BTC ASIC chips are relatively simple sha-256 generators, whereas the chip from these MIT researchers is somewhat more complicated and can handle elliptic-curve public-key cryptography.