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If we could throw all computing power that was used for mining bitcoins, how long would it take to produce required results?
by butz 7y ago
If we could throw all computing power that was used for mining bitcoins, how long would it take to produce required results?
- r3drock 7y agoThis would probably not work since bitcoin miners are all ASICs these days.
- RL_Quine 7y agoIt definitely would not work, they can do nothing except a partial SHA256 hash- not even a complete one.
- mehrdadn 7y agoI feel like the question was just trying to see how much computation would help, rather than whether the chips are actually capable of doing it.
- Dylan16807 7y agoIt's a reasonable question, but it's hard to evaluate the processing power of those chips because of how very specific those circuits are.
- belltaco 7y agoHe said "was used". Bitcoin was run on CPUs and GPUs for a long time. Ethereum and other coins are still good on PCs i think.
- timClicks 7y agoThese computational chemistry problems make it easy-ish to eliminate candidate drugs that would be impossible in practice. Think of it as narrowing the search space, or reducing the size of the haystack rather than trying to find the cure/needle.