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NuclearPM 46 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Nobody knows what a used GPU cluster is worth

Why is that true? Can’t you just make more stuff parallel and shrink the ASIC chips accordingly?

jmalicki 46 days ago [–]

No - inability to do so is part of the design of a good cryptographic hash, quite explicitly.

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