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Re:Amazon denies report of accepting Bitcoin as payment by cwkoss on Monday July 26, 2021 @07:32PM (#27966827)
You are almost entirely right, but ASICs can be used to mine other currencies which use the same hashing algorithm.

Bitcoin and a handful of others use SHA256.

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