Bitcoin Miners : alternative usage ?

Trillium

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Quote from: player01 on January 24, 2014, 05:46:14 PM

BULL!

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There ARE ways of using it, people just haven't tried hard enough. Already asicminers are $20 and heading lower, so let's put our heads together and figure out a way.

Design hardware to do very specific, simple and repetitive mathematical operations. --> Not suitable for anything else. --> People complaining they can't do anything else. --? Huh

-ck

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Ruu \o/

Quote from: player01 on January 24, 2014, 05:46:14 PM

BULL!

Y'all aren't trying hard enough.

What about using it for a gambling pool having the miners provide random numbers

What about writing a program that uses it to encrypt/decrypt files on your computer.

What about e-mail decryption?

How about using it to store information on a blockchain of a new coin that can be used for information storage?

There ARE ways of using it, people just haven't tried hard enough. Already asicminers are $20 and heading lower, so let's put our heads together and figure out a way.

It can't do any of those.

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BULL!

Y'all aren't trying hard enough.

What about using it for a gambling pool having the miners provide random numbers

What about writing a program that uses it to encrypt/decrypt files on your computer.

What about e-mail decryption?

How about using it to store information on a blockchain of a new coin that can be used for information storage?

There ARE ways of using it, people just haven't tried hard enough. Already asicminers are $20 and heading lower, so let's put our heads together and figure out a way.

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Quote from: notlist3d on July 14, 2013, 02:51:39 PM

Well if you do have some open air GPU's you can always heat a room. Forgot about that use. But if your heater goes out..... you will be prepared.

I'm finally relieved

notlist3d

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Well if you do have some open air GPU's you can always heat a room. Forgot about that use. But if your heater goes out..... you will be prepared.

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Quote from: Moogle on July 14, 2013, 12:37:33 PM

Paper weight
Door stop...

Thanks

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KUPO!

Paper weight
Door stop...

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Quote from: Trillium on July 14, 2013, 08:38:32 AM

Sure, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application-specific_integrated_circuit

is a good start.

Thank you very much. I read all of it and other articles. Understood

. Thank you.

Trillium

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Quote from: XZed on July 14, 2013, 08:14:05 AM

Quote from: Trillium on July 14, 2013, 08:05:21 AM

No it can only be used for mining bitcoin and SHA-256 altcoins.

It cannot be used for hacking, cracking, backtracing, etc.

Quote from: notlist3d on July 14, 2013, 08:12:01 AM

Sadly no other use. So mine all u can.

Thank you very much. By the way, just to understand it technically, can you advice me any article / post explaining why altcoins hashing is specific (in other words, why a chip as ASIC couldn't compute for another hash ?) ?

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Sure, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application-specific_integrated_circuit

is a good start.

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Quote from: Trillium on July 14, 2013, 08:05:21 AM

No it can only be used for mining bitcoin and SHA-256 altcoins.

It cannot be used for hacking, cracking, backtracing, etc.

Quote from: notlist3d on July 14, 2013, 08:12:01 AM

Sadly no other use. So mine all u can.

Thank you very much. By the way, just to understand it technically, can you advice me any article / post explaining why altcoins hashing is specific (in other words, why a chip as ASIC couldn't compute for another hash ?) ?

Thank you.

Sincerely,

notlist3d

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Sadly no other use. So mine all u can.

Trillium

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No it can only be used for mining bitcoin and SHA-256 altcoins.

It cannot be used for hacking, cracking, backtracing, etc.

XZed

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Hello all,

I beg your pardon in case this question already has an answer somewhere else on this forum, but I wanted to know :

I pre-ordered an ASIC Miner (KnC Miner).

I was wondering : finally, is there another usage ? how to exploit this ASIC power (GH/s) ?

Is it usable for another usage as passwords hashes cracking ? (Didn't search about ASIC support by such software)

Thank you very much.

Sincerely,

XZed

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