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August 25, 2015, 11:43:37 PM
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I was wanting to make a method of reversing SHA256 hashes by trying over and over again until it gets it. Is there any way to make a Bitcoin miner calculate a hash from a string or a byte array?

I was thinking of trying this by connecting to a custom pool that sends it strings as work and makes it calculate them, but I don't know how to go about doing that.
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August 26, 2015, 12:40:26 AM
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No. ASIC miners do one thing and one thing only. They do NOT perform sha256, they do a very specific workload on very specific data giving very specific responses and cannot be refashioned to do anything but mine sha256d coins.

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