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Re:Parallella, a $99 Linux Supercomputer by pmorici on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @11:02AM (#5558490)
Can it mine BitCoin competitively?
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Re:Parallella, a $99 Linux Supercomputer by tempaccount9473 on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @11:21AM (#5558629)
> Can it mine BitCoin competitively?

Prior to the popularity of mining using GPUs, it would have been the shizzle.

Today's ASIC-based systems will hash circles around it.

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Re:Parallella, a $99 Linux Supercomputer by qdog on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @05:58PM (#5561211)
It's only pulling 2W, so it really depends on the performance per W. Maybe that'll be my first project...
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