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A comment on AsicMiner's Immersion Cooling Mining Facility. Parent comment

Re:AsicMiner's Immersion Cooling Mining Facility by joezydeco on Monday November 25, 2013 @04:00PM (#6796972)
But an LFSR only gives you a pseudorandom result, right? I mean, I'd rather load thermal noise than use a shift.
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Re:AsicMiner's Immersion Cooling Mining Facility by wmf on Monday November 25, 2013 @04:29PM (#6797181)
For searching a 32-bit nonce space I'd rather use a PRNG than a true RNG to avoid wasting work due to birthday paradox collisions.
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