except as a heat source
Now that's a new use 
, warmers prices are "to the moon" in winter you know so even if you don't want it you could sell it in a garage sale.But anyway if BTC is still here you don't need to.
Topic: ASICS (Read 923 times)
it'd be almost impossible to brute-force for the future except to the national secret agency
National Security Agency
Theoretically (as in, out of my uneducated ass), I suppose you could increase the number of passes required for SHA-256 password schemes to ridiculous lengths. If it takes 500 quintillion hashes to unlock something, it'd be practically impossible to brute-force for the foreseeable future except by other former miners, and maybe the NSA if they decide it's worth their time to spend resources on this bizarre cryptographic "super-niche." Since it's basically useless except as a heat source, you can have your ASICs going 24/7 to encrypt (and decrypt) sensitive documents for corporations, though I'm unsure if you can distribute that in a way where the data isn't revealed to the encryptors/decrypters (though I suppose you get some psuedo-security by decentralizing the work).
With the Scrypt ASICs coming out, assuming they show substantial improvement and become obsolete or irrelevant, you could combine the two ASICs to create a SHA-256/Scrypt hybrid scheme, where they work in parallel on the two sets of problems.
With the Scrypt ASICs coming out, assuming they show substantial improvement and become obsolete or irrelevant, you could combine the two ASICs to create a SHA-256/Scrypt hybrid scheme, where they work in parallel on the two sets of problems.
If bitcoin died what could we use all our ASICS for? Surely there must be some other use for them...
May be sold as heritage instrument to museum.
If bitcoin died what could we use all our ASICS for? Surely there must be some other use for them...
Other SHA-256 coins (though if Bitcoin dies, those other coins will likely die alongside it) and electrical heating. That's it.
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