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Re:One Bitcoin miner is buying 20,000 16nm wafers from TSMC ... by mmanfrin on Monday January 22, 2018 @04:32PM (#16208108)
Unfortunately, these chips are designed explicitly for the SHA algorithm BTC uses. I wonder if there would be a way to make an algorithm based around protein folding that could be verified like a hash?
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Re:One Bitcoin miner is buying 20,000 16nm wafers from TSMC ... by PKop on Monday January 22, 2018 @04:36PM (#16208135)
https://curecoin.net/knowledge-base/about-curecoin/what-is-c...
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Re:One Bitcoin miner is buying 20,000 16nm wafers from TSMC ... by ascom on Monday January 22, 2018 @04:35PM (#16208124)
https://foldingcoin.net
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Re:One Bitcoin miner is buying 20,000 16nm wafers from TSMC ... by zxexz on Monday January 22, 2018 @04:45PM (#16208207)
https://www.gridcoin.us/
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