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[[!comment format=mdwn
username="http://joeyh.name/"
ip="209.250.56.172"
subject="comment 1"
date="2014-02-20T17:42:10Z"
content="""
I feel that Helmut has the right approach to this general type of thing.
I doubt that bitcoin ASICs feature a fast data transfer bus, because bitcoin is a pretty low-data-volume protocol. Additionally AIUI, bitcoin ASICs get their speed by hashing in parallel, which allows them to try many variations of a block at once. So they probably rely on most of the data remaining the same and only a small amount changing. So it's doubtful this would be a win.
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