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Is there something useful that all the custom built bitcoin mining rigs can do now that it probably is less economical to use them to mine?
by sct202 8y ago
Is there something useful that all the custom built bitcoin mining rigs can do now that it probably is less economical to use them to mine?
- pault 8y agoNope. GPUs can be repurposed but the asics that are used for Bitcoin mining are expensive paperweights without demand for BTC.
- jonknee 8y agoWell they are relatively good space heaters at least...
- zanny 8y agoBitcoin mining has been custom ASIC dominated for years now. Almost all miners (in terms of hash power) are custom purpose built machines. So no, they really can only do sha256 hashing on payloads of comparable size to bitcoin blocks.
- JulianMorrison 8y agoWhich might make them harshly powerful password crackers for anyone daft enough to use SHA256 as a password.
- LeonM 8y agoExcept that BTC does a double hash, so it won't work on any 'regular' single hashed password.