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Re:Help Take the Fight to COVID-19 with BOINC and Folding@Home by r3drock on Sunday March 22, 2020 @05:15PM (#22658728)
This would probably not work since bitcoin miners are all ASICs these days.
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Re:Help Take the Fight to COVID-19 with BOINC and Folding@Home by mehrdadn on Sunday March 22, 2020 @05:53PM (#22659075)
I feel like the question was just trying to see how much computation would help, rather than whether the chips are actually capable of doing it.
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Re:Help Take the Fight to COVID-19 with BOINC and Folding@Home by Dylan16807 on Sunday March 22, 2020 @09:10PM (#22660369)
It's a reasonable question, but it's hard to evaluate the processing power of those chips because of how very specific those circuits are.
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Re:Help Take the Fight to COVID-19 with BOINC and Folding@Home by belltaco on Sunday March 22, 2020 @08:44PM (#22660243)
He said "was used". Bitcoin was run on CPUs and GPUs for a long time. Ethereum and other coins are still good on PCs i think.
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Re:Help Take the Fight to COVID-19 with BOINC and Folding@Home by RL_Quine on Sunday March 22, 2020 @05:16PM (#22658739)
It definitely would not work, they can do nothing except a partial SHA256 hash- not even a complete one.
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