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		nwh on May 22, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: eBay user data for sale? Bitcoin miners can not be re-purposed. They take a header input and output only nonces, not hash results.

gnoway on May 22, 2014 [–]

I think the point is that if there's a bitcoin miner doing 2GH/sec for $19, the operation is cheap.

nwh on May 22, 2014 | [–]

No, the cost is due to scale. Producing ASIC chips involves millions of dollars of setup.

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