What can I use Bitcoin miners for other than mining? - page 6.

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Quote from: SikoSoft on September 15, 2014, 04:52:40 AM

Quote from: -ck on September 12, 2014, 09:51:23 AM

Quote from: SikoSoft on September 12, 2014, 08:49:26 AM

Correct me if I am wrong, anyone, but I believe you could use them for brute-force password cracking.

Since SHA256 is an encryption standard used in cryptography far more outside of Bitcoin, you could (presumably) use the hardware to brute-force and crack encrypted data/passwords that use this encryption standard.

Yes you're wrong.

Care to elaborate?

LOL, you're questioning the BitcoinTalk moderator and lead developer of CGMiner, the most used mining software on all ASIC hardware miners?

Balls, man, you got 'em! Cheesy

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Quote from: chaosknight on September 12, 2014, 10:41:30 AM

Quote from: SikoSoft on September 12, 2014, 08:49:26 AM

Correct me if I am wrong, anyone, but I believe you could use them for brute-force password cracking.

Since SHA256 is an encryption standard used in cryptography far more outside of Bitcoin, you could (presumably) use the hardware to brute-force and crack encrypted data/passwords that use this encryption standard.

You can only crack password with GPU.... but you can use it to heat your swimming poool..

I've played with password-cracking in the past and have never used anything other than a CPU, so on this basis alone your statement is incorrect.

Can you provide a technical explanation for why you arrived at this conclusion?

If the ASIC chip is designed to create hashes for the SHA-256 encryption standard, and an application uses SHA-256 encryption for passwords or arbitrary data encryption, why would it not be suitable? After all the scenario remains the same: generating hashes in an attempt to brute-force a solution.

SikoSoft

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Quote from: -ck on September 12, 2014, 09:51:23 AM

Quote from: SikoSoft on September 12, 2014, 08:49:26 AM

Correct me if I am wrong, anyone, but I believe you could use them for brute-force password cracking.

Since SHA256 is an encryption standard used in cryptography far more outside of Bitcoin, you could (presumably) use the hardware to brute-force and crack encrypted data/passwords that use this encryption standard.

Yes you're wrong.

Care to elaborate?

TheDragonSlayer

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Does growing drug need heat?

ThePhwner

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something something Bitcoin

Repurposing the heat is the best bet. The far end of the miner room grows coffee and plumeria, in a very chilly mountain climate. We're trying mini bananas and Meyer lemons next, perhaps some olives.

EDIT: Some of the lower-diff SHA alts aren't a bad choice for older miners either.

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I have tried using it to cook egg, but it is a mess.. Need to find a better way..

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Maybe this has already been mentioned, but you could create an SHA-256 AltCoin and then mine it.

Just hang on to the coin, or use it to buy products so that the currency gains value. Discourage pump and dump somehow. (Obtaining currency and selling it quickly for another currency, which lowers the value because of the low demand volume on the buy side and the high demand volume on the sell thus devaluing the currency.)

Good luck with your miner! Perhaps if you're good with blockchain programming you could create a block chain based email service so we could have anonymous email again, only this time simply with a proxy server and blockchain technology so it would work with or without Tor.

ASICMiners has some open source hardware available if you want to see the programming

Good luck!

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A lot of things need heating, like heating your food, heating your fish tank..

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Selling them on E-Bay. A good strategy is to get them while they are cutting edge and selling them when the price is still high on The Bay.

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Jahaha

Maybe reconfig them to mine altcoins

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Quote from: odin1985 on September 07, 2014, 02:27:09 PM

you can always recycle it for parts, gold and other metals from them

The amount of gold on them is worthless .

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Quote from: SikoSoft on September 12, 2014, 08:49:26 AM

Correct me if I am wrong, anyone, but I believe you could use them for brute-force password cracking.

Since SHA256 is an encryption standard used in cryptography far more outside of Bitcoin, you could (presumably) use the hardware to brute-force and crack encrypted data/passwords that use this encryption standard.

You can only crack password with GPU.... but you can use it to heat your swimming poool..

-ck

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Quote from: SikoSoft on September 12, 2014, 08:49:26 AM

Correct me if I am wrong, anyone, but I believe you could use them for brute-force password cracking.

Since SHA256 is an encryption standard used in cryptography far more outside of Bitcoin, you could (presumably) use the hardware to brute-force and crack encrypted data/passwords that use this encryption standard.

Yes you're wrong.

SikoSoft

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Correct me if I am wrong, anyone, but I believe you could use them for brute-force password cracking.

Since SHA256 is an encryption standard used in cryptography far more outside of Bitcoin, you could (presumably) use the hardware to brute-force and crack encrypted data/passwords that use this encryption standard.

WestChi

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I live in a cooler below grade house and I use mine to heat my cold office.

ChuckBuck

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You can use a small/mid size miner like say an Antminer S1 or S3 as a space heater in the winter time for you bed room.

That way you can earn some coin while heating those cold winter nights while you sleep.

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Quote from: MarisaFea on August 17, 2014, 05:50:24 PM

Any other cool funky ways to use it? I'm sure we have a clever community here which will know some funky ways to use them .

Point them at http://burstmultipool.com/ and then earn BURST coin at the rate of BTC.00116000/100GH/day SHA

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That’s a very funny and cool question i think you can use it for different wait stopping methods or you can also use it for decoration or i would say the most funny thing will be that you can use it for making children scared as well.Isn’t it funny mate.

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you can use their fan for something else, for cpu maybe? for other altcoin rig?, but the first alternative would be heating

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This thread has got me considering the purchase of a HEPA filter to stick on my Antminer. Inner city air is filthy and making it a dual purpose air filter/BTC miner might help prolong the life of both it's and my circuitry!

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