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Hmm, this might have implications for digital currencies and their mining.
by mindcreek 12y ago
Hmm, this might have implications for digital currencies and their mining.
- deadgrey19 12y agoUnlikely. Custom built Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) (i.e. bitcoin mining chips - e.g http://www.butterflylabs.com/ http://www.butterflylabs.com/) will always be faster than FPGAs (which are comparatively slow) and CPUs (which are fast, but general).
- tromp 12y agoExcept that every other months or so sees the introduction of a new proof-of-work system that won't have ASICs for years, if ever. FPGAs can easily outperform the CPU/GPU competition on any alt-coin using such proof-of-work.