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Re:Monero Declares War on ASIC Manufacturers by ethbro on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @04:52PM (#16379794)
Parent was presumably leaving unsaid "... at scale", aka enough to move a chunk of the hash power.
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Re:Monero Declares War on ASIC Manufacturers by stevedc3 on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @05:07PM (#16379946)
Thanks yes I totally meant scale. Main cost of new ASIC chips is design and fabrication. Only serve a very narrow specific purpose and all that cost is sunk. But after that, unit production chip cost is negligible.
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Re:Monero Declares War on ASIC Manufacturers by arthurcolle on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @05:27PM (#16380095)
do you happen to know b/e costs given difficulty/profitability ratio using current market electricity prices?
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