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• T156@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Hasn’t bitcoin not been viable on GPUs for over a decade? Most of the cryptocurrency hype was mining other coins on GPUs, or using them to do blockchain calculations for NFTs and things.

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• Natanael@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  That was barely a year or two. Bitcoin wasn’t very popular globally speaking when the first ASICs already was in development, and in between the two there was FPGA mining

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• YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Til. I’ve only ever seen the application specific boards for Bitcoin.

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