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Re:eBay user data for sale? by nwh on Thursday May 22, 2014 @12:16PM (#7784570)
Bitcoin miners can not be re-purposed. They take a header input and output only nonces, not hash results.
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Re:eBay user data for sale? by gnoway on Thursday May 22, 2014 @12:24PM (#7784627)
I think the point is that if there's a bitcoin miner doing 2GH/sec for $19, the operation is cheap.
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Re:eBay user data for sale? by nwh on Thursday May 22, 2014 @12:26PM (#7784641)
No, the cost is due to scale. Producing ASIC chips involves millions of dollars of setup.
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