These are ASICs after all. Designed for a specific purpose. It'a software converted into hardware. Can't edit the hardware man!
Topic: Other purposes for ASIC hardware. - page 2. (Read 9387 times)
I believe they are pretty worthless for anything else.
These are ASICs after all. Designed for a specific purpose. It'a software converted into hardware. Can't edit the hardware man!
These are ASICs after all. Designed for a specific purpose. It'a software converted into hardware. Can't edit the hardware man!
In the not too distant future, there will be a ton of mining hardware (near) freely available. Is there a potential danger of this former mining hardware being used nefariously (cracking wallets and other bad stuff)? I'm no mathematician, but bitcoin is based on sha256. Seems like there's a potential for bad guys to do bad things here.
Are they really limited to sha256 mining as opposed to sha256 calculations? Seems like the mining is done in your mining software and the asic's are just doing the number crunching.
No, you can use it only for SHA256D mining
Or as radiator generating heat
Or as radiator generating heat
Other than drying meat and driving up power bills, can the ASICs be put toward other uses? For example, when the lower end ones become obsolete for bitcoin mining, could they be put toward Folding@home or other distributed computing projects?
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