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Bitcoin 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 ca
by zanny 8y ago
Bitcoin 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.