I has a similar initial reaction but my guess is it's not really feasible to repurpose these. I think (my knowledge is out of date) that dedicated miners are ba

I has a similar initial reaction but my guess is it's not really feasible to repurpose these. I think (my knowledge is out of date) that dedicated miners are basically just asics designed to compute hashes really fast (presumably optimized for bitcoin blocks and cycling through a nonce). Unless another useful application is really close to that, you probably can't use them for it.