Comment on Bitcoin price crash forces miners off networkparentComments−yjftsjthsd-h6yIn the interest of hijacking this into a productive discussion: Does anyone know if it's possible to use BTC ASICs for anything else? It's just a lot of sha256 hardware, right? Can we use it for arbitrary checksumming?−RL_Quine6yAbsolutely not. They’re application specific as the name implies. They can not do anything else.
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In the interest of hijacking this into a productive discussion: Does anyone know if it's possible to use BTC ASICs for anything else? It's just a lot of sha256 hardware, right? Can we use it for arbitrary checksumming?
Absolutely not. They’re application specific as the name implies. They can not do anything else.