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ZombiePelican
11/27/17 8:08:09 PM
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MutantJohn
11/27/17 8:09:06 PM
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Because the hardware matches the problem space well.
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Tropicalwood
11/27/17 8:09:44 PM
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Because they're a lot better at solving equations than a CPU.
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ZombiePelican
11/27/17 8:09:48 PM
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MutantJohn posted...
Because the hardware matches the problem space well.

Ok, what's problem space?
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yoloyoloswagEMP
11/27/17 8:10:30 PM
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ASIC >>> GPU

git gud
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ChromaticAngel
11/27/17 8:10:40 PM
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Tropicalwood posted...
Because they're a lot better at solving equations than a CPU.

They're actually not, what they are better at is working on many multiple simultaneous equations which is what matters most.
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Darklit_Minuet
11/27/17 8:10:44 PM
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ZombiePelican posted...
MutantJohn posted...
Because the hardware matches the problem space well.

Ok, what's problem space?

Not much, what's problem space with you?
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ZombiePelican
11/27/17 8:13:41 PM
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Darmik
11/27/17 8:15:59 PM
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Can my single 1070 gaming PC make me money or would I need like a farm of them lol.

I'm guessing it wouldn't be too great for my PC though lol
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ChromaticAngel
11/27/17 8:18:02 PM
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Darmik posted...
Can my single 1070 gaming PC make me money or would I need like a farm of them lol.

Literally anything will make some money in a pool. But yes a farm is better. You'll want to stick the farm in a pool anyway.
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MutantJohn
11/27/17 8:22:11 PM
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Bitcoin is based on hashing data which is basically applying random math to bytes so the goal is more hashes per second. GPUs are able to run more hashes at once than a CPU can.
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