Title: Bitcoin Miners : alternative usage ? Post by: XZed on July 14, 2013, 12:02:59 PM Hello all,
I beg your pardon in case this question already has an answer somewhere else on this forum, but I wanted to know : I pre-ordered an ASIC Miner (KnC Miner). I was wondering : finally, is there another usage ? how to exploit this ASIC power (GH/s) ? Is it usable for another usage as passwords hashes cracking ? (Didn't search about ASIC support by such software) Thank you very much. Sincerely, XZed Title: Re: Bitcoin Miners : alternative usage ? Post by: Trillium on July 14, 2013, 01:05:21 PM No it can only be used for mining bitcoin and SHA-256 altcoins.
It cannot be used for hacking, cracking, backtracing, etc. Title: Re: Bitcoin Miners : alternative usage ? Post by: notlist3d on July 14, 2013, 01:12:01 PM Sadly no other use. So mine all u can.
Title: Re: Bitcoin Miners : alternative usage ? Post by: XZed on July 14, 2013, 01:14:05 PM No it can only be used for mining bitcoin and SHA-256 altcoins. It cannot be used for hacking, cracking, backtracing, etc. Sadly no other use. So mine all u can. Thank you very much. By the way, just to understand it technically, can you advice me any article / post explaining why altcoins hashing is specific (in other words, why a chip as ASIC couldn't compute for another hash ?) ? Thank you. Sincerely, Title: Re: Bitcoin Miners : alternative usage ? Post by: Trillium on July 14, 2013, 01:38:32 PM No it can only be used for mining bitcoin and SHA-256 altcoins. It cannot be used for hacking, cracking, backtracing, etc. Sadly no other use. So mine all u can. Thank you very much. By the way, just to understand it technically, can you advice me any article / post explaining why altcoins hashing is specific (in other words, why a chip as ASIC couldn't compute for another hash ?) ? Thank you. Sincerely, Sure, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application-specific_integrated_circuit is a good start. Title: Re: Bitcoin Miners : alternative usage ? Post by: XZed on July 14, 2013, 03:11:21 PM Sure, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application-specific_integrated_circuit is a good start. Thank you very much. I read all of it and other articles. Understood :). Thank you. Title: Re: Bitcoin Miners : alternative usage ? Post by: Moogle on July 14, 2013, 05:37:33 PM Paper weight
Door stop... Title: Re: Bitcoin Miners : alternative usage ? Post by: XZed on July 14, 2013, 06:50:26 PM Paper weight Thanks :)Door stop... Title: Re: Bitcoin Miners : alternative usage ? Post by: notlist3d on July 14, 2013, 07:51:39 PM Well if you do have some open air GPU's you can always heat a room. Forgot about that use. But if your heater goes out..... you will be prepared.
Title: Re: Bitcoin Miners : alternative usage ? Post by: XZed on July 14, 2013, 07:54:23 PM Well if you do have some open air GPU's you can always heat a room. Forgot about that use. But if your heater goes out..... you will be prepared. I'm finally relieved :) Title: Re: Bitcoin Miners : alternative usage ? Post by: player01 on January 24, 2014, 10:46:14 PM BULL!
Y'all aren't trying hard enough. What about using it for a gambling pool having the miners provide random numbers What about writing a program that uses it to encrypt/decrypt files on your computer. What about e-mail decryption? How about using it to store information on a blockchain of a new coin that can be used for information storage? There ARE ways of using it, people just haven't tried hard enough. Already asicminers are $20 and heading lower, so let's put our heads together and figure out a way. Title: Re: Bitcoin Miners : alternative usage ? Post by: -ck on January 25, 2014, 12:12:29 AM BULL! It can't do any of those.Y'all aren't trying hard enough. What about using it for a gambling pool having the miners provide random numbers What about writing a program that uses it to encrypt/decrypt files on your computer. What about e-mail decryption? How about using it to store information on a blockchain of a new coin that can be used for information storage? There ARE ways of using it, people just haven't tried hard enough. Already asicminers are $20 and heading lower, so let's put our heads together and figure out a way. Title: Re: Bitcoin Miners : alternative usage ? Post by: Trillium on January 26, 2014, 01:08:40 AM BULL! ... There ARE ways of using it, people just haven't tried hard enough. Already asicminers are $20 and heading lower, so let's put our heads together and figure out a way. Design hardware to do very specific, simple and repetitive mathematical operations. --> Not suitable for anything else. --> People complaining they can't do anything else. --? ??? |