Do ASIC's have any use outside of coin mining? Like using them for folding or some other research support?
Oh, I have to disagree. This was very funny. Now if they had done that to the GPU's that seem to have also been seized, there would be total outrage!!Mining is a problem but I feel like this publicity stunt could have been better handled.
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Agreed, they could have parted it all out and donated it to local schools
Do ASIC's have any use outside of coin mining? Like using them for folding or some other research support?
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What are schools going to do with it?
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The only thing you can do with them is mine.....engineering class for students, experiments, building/theory, hands-on computer experience.
not all schools just read from a book. where I live lot of schools have become... very creative.
The only thing you can do with them is mine.....
Still seems a waste. Could they not have been recycled for the value in resources? They must have some value, other than been used for mining.
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Well they could of done that perhaps. Use rather than destroy the resource and use the money generated to support local causes.The only thing you can do with them is mine.....
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They could be used for research or folding if the researcher wanted to limit themselves to a very specific kind of math. It probably isn't worth the researchers time.Do ASIC's have any use outside of coin mining? Like using them for folding or some other research support?
Mining is a problem but I feel like this publicity stunt could have been better handled.
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Not unless folding uses the same algorithm. If they did, I would assume you would see plenty of folders making use of them.you are 100% positive some computer science kids can't reverse engineer them to do folding at home?
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Please read the Wikipedia page I linked to earlier in this thread. They can not be reprogrammed to do anything else then all the stuff hardwired in the ASIC circuitry.you are 100% positive some computer science kids can't reverse engineer them to do folding at home?
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Especially when they only reason people want to see them smash is because they can't buy a gpu.Well they could of done that perhaps. Use rather than destroy the resource and use the money generated to support local causes.
Smashing stuff up for the sake of it is silly .
Reading is hard.Please read the Wikipedia page I linked to earlier in this thread. They can not be reprogrammed to do anything else then all the stuff hardwired in the ASIC circuitry.
Please read the Wikipedia page I linked to earlier in this thread. They can not be reprogrammed to do anything else then all the stuff hardwired in the ASIC circuitry.
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Bulldozing ASICs is not going to help that.Good riddance, now just to kill mining on gpus.
They are glorified hashing engines. In Bitcoin, they are really fast at SHA256. Thus, yes they do... but not somewhere terribly productive. They can crack password databases, basically.Do ASIC's have any use outside of coin mining? Like using them for folding or some other research support?
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That is currently what my miners are doingThey can crack password databases, basically.
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Then you aren't mining, so the use of the term that's appropriate: cracking.That is currently what my miners are doing
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Not so much. I mean, if that were the case, they would probably be giving the flat out thieving perpetrators the same heavy-handed/rolled punishment. Would add new meaning to the phrase of "throwing them under the bus". I guess the law rolls on.Well, after thinking for a bit, I do have to agree that smashing ASICs with freaking heavy construction equipment is over the top, to say the least. There are certainly other ways to decommission illegal mining operations without producing so much waste. Maybe the Malaysian Police really wanted to put out the message that criminal mining activity will not be tolerated, lol.
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