Tried to read the claims and realized again that patents are unreadable to an engineer and completely useless for any useful advancement of the field. Clearly,

Tried to read the claims and realized again that patents are unreadable to an engineer and completely useless for any useful advancement of the field. Clearly, somebody was working on a mining chip design and took advantage of the patent incentives these companies offer employees to build a warchest. The lawyers then took the description they provided and turned into this steaming pile of technolegal jargon.