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having a crypto asic in any product would be sold as a way to lower costs to consumers and would be deemed ok.
by downrightmike 6y ago
having a crypto asic in any product would be sold as a way to lower costs to consumers and would be deemed ok.
- dylan604 6y agonow that you put it like that, I'm surprised the selection of "smart" TVs, cable boxes, provider wifi boxes, etc are not doing that already.
- TeMPOraL 6y agoDo we know that they don't? A dedicated ASIC would probably be spotted by some random person doing a teardown. But a DSP chip doubling as crypto miner when not in use, that could easily escape post-purchase hardware inspection. (Might be easier to discover it on the design/procurement/supply chain side. Perhaps stock players would find out when investigating their investments. A high-profile brand putting crypto miners on consumer hardware is newsworthy, and news move stocks, so there's incentive to leak the story.)