ASICS

[aeddan1]

If bitcoin died what could we use all our ASICS for? Surely there must be some other use for them...

[bitbitz]

I dont think there is much use for them! Maybe heating! hahah

[Rannasha]

If bitcoin died what could we use all our ASICS for? Surely there must be some other use for them...

Other SHA-256 coins (though if Bitcoin dies, those other coins will likely die alongside it) and electrical heating. That's it.

[BitCoinDream]

If bitcoin died what could we use all our ASICS for? Surely there must be some other use for them...

May be sold as heritage instrument to museum.

[Kluge]

Theoretically (as in, out of my uneducated ass), I suppose you could increase the number of passes required for SHA-256 password schemes to ridiculous lengths. If it takes 500 quintillion hashes to unlock something, it'd be practically impossible to brute-force for the foreseeable future except by other former miners, and maybe the NSA if they decide it's worth their time to spend resources on this bizarre cryptographic "super-niche." Since it's basically useless except as a heat source, you can have your ASICs going 24/7 to encrypt (and decrypt) sensitive documents for corporations, though I'm unsure if you can distribute that in a way where the data isn't revealed to the encryptors/decrypters (though I suppose you get some psuedo-security by decentralizing the work).

With the Scrypt ASICs coming out, assuming they show substantial improvement and become obsolete or irrelevant, you could combine the two ASICs to create a SHA-256/Scrypt hybrid scheme, where they work in parallel on the two sets of problems.

[Smileyftw]

it'd be almost impossible to brute-force for the future except to the national secret agency

[oxfardk]

The hybrid scheme is the way to secure transmissions

[BitCoinDream]

it'd be almost impossible to brute-force for the future except to the national secret agency

National Security Agency

[howzar]

except as a heat source

Now that's a new use  , warmers prices are "to the moon" in winter you know so even if you don't want it you could sell it in a garage sale.
But anyway if BTC is still here you don't need to.