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Re:Ask HN: $8k on AWS in August for you, any interesting com... by ronreiter on Monday August 03, 2015 @01:22PM (#9997942)
who said you lose only 4k? 8k general compute power in AWS is roughly 200$ in bitcoin.
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Re:Ask HN: $8k on AWS in August for you, any interesting com... by JoshTriplett on Monday August 03, 2015 @01:28PM (#9997997)
GPUs aren't nearly as effective as they used to be, given all the ASIC miners. And AWS GPU instances don't have the right GPU, either; there's a very specific line of AMD GPUs that can accelerate the blockchain hashing algorithm, and AWS uses nVidia.
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