So you want to take an
Application Specific Integrated Circuit
and make it
Application In-Specific?
Topic: What are ASIC miners good for once mining is no longer profitable? - page 2. (Read 4437 times)
January 23, 2014, 09:32:32 PM
January 23, 2014, 09:30:31 PM
Mining whatever cryptocurrencies require sha256(sha256()) and nothing else. They cannot do anything else. Period.
January 23, 2014, 09:18:02 PM
ASICs by their very nature of being ASICs cannot be used for anything else bar 4 special uses: Doorstop, boat anchor, book end and paperweight. Though some are too light for even those uses.
Let's broaden the horizon a bit - how can we innovate and use the nature of SHA-256 ASICS another way? I like the idea of NMC for instance, but I feel like there should be a lot more possible uses.
January 23, 2014, 08:42:23 PM
ASICs by their very nature of being ASICs cannot be used for anything else bar 4 special uses: Doorstop, boat anchor, book end and paperweight. Though some are too light for even those uses.
January 23, 2014, 08:17:11 PM
This cold winter I'm already starting to enjoy the "free" heat from the BE Cube I got today, but once the weather changes and difficulty goes up - what are the alternative uses for these dedicated SHA-256 miners? Can they somehow be reprogrammed to do a worthwhile task or are they just really expensive electric heaters once mining is no longer profitable?
They will be good to give to me.
January 23, 2014, 08:14:43 PM
This cold winter I'm already starting to enjoy the "free" heat from the BE Cube I got today, but once the weather changes and difficulty goes up - what are the alternative uses for these dedicated SHA-256 miners? Can they somehow be reprogrammed to do a worthwhile task or are they just really expensive electric heaters once mining is no longer profitable?
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