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I think it's time that the government started to consider stepping in a providing support to these out of work ASICs.
by Traster 7y ago
I think it's time that the government started to consider stepping in a providing support to these out of work ASICs.
- jackinloadup 7y agoFinally, we start talking about the real issue. \s
- SilasX 7y agoNah, they didn’t lobby enough or enmesh themselves in mutually-assured destruction points in the economy, therefore they can be left to wither on the vine like normal people.
- yjftsjthsd-h 7y agoIn the interest of hijacking this into a productive discussion: Does anyone know if it's possible to use BTC ASICs for anything else? It's just a lot of sha256 hardware, right? Can we use it for arbitrary checksumming?
- RL_Quine 7y agoAbsolutely not. They’re application specific as the name implies. They can not do anything else.