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Re:AsicMiner's Immersion Cooling Mining Facility by DanBC on Monday November 25, 2013 @02:31PM (#6796314)
The Bitcoin network is currently more powerful[1] than the entire top500 combined.

[1] At least, that's what they tell me. I suppose it depends what you define as power.

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Re:AsicMiner's Immersion Cooling Mining Facility by runeks on Wednesday November 27, 2013 @07:56AM (#6807774)
But then again, my phone's GPU is infinitely more powerful at 3D rasterization than the entire Bitcoin network (because the Bitcoin network can't do 3D rasterization).

My analogy might be a bit convoluted, but my point is that - as you mention - that we're comparing oranges to apples. We're comparing a general-purpose computer to doing a SHA256 hash.

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Re:AsicMiner's Immersion Cooling Mining Facility by redblacktree on Monday November 25, 2013 @09:06PM (#6798598)
DOTDIW, I guess.
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