Mining bitcoin on a CPU these days is like digging for gold with a garden shovel. Once upon a time it may have worked, but today it's basically useless (even if you do it on a million computers at once).
I did look into using the same technique to implement bitcoin mining in glsl. My opinion is that it is possible, but not straight forward and probably not worth it, but still a pretty f'ing cool concept.
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Mining bitcoin on a CPU these days is like digging for gold with a garden shovel. Once upon a time it may have worked, but today it's basically useless (even if you do it on a million computers at once).
WebGL FTW!
:)
Wouldn't work. The right API calls aren't exposed. You would need something like webCL.
A long time ago I did some proof of concept work to do GPGPU operations in the browser with regular webGL, it kind of worked: http://learningwebgl.com/blog/?p=1828#comments
I did look into using the same technique to implement bitcoin mining in glsl. My opinion is that it is possible, but not straight forward and probably not worth it, but still a pretty f'ing cool concept.
All you need are shaders to do gpu computation.
People did GPGPU before the likes of OpenCL and CUDA.
well yes... just not from a browser.