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This doesn't change the pools at all (pools don't change if everyone uses ASIC). This does probably signal the end of GPU mining though.


Fuck bitcoin, if custom chips are that much cheaper the GPU power in cracking hashes then most key streching algorithms are worthless.


Apparently people downvote me. I don't hate bitcoin, but if the relative power is true then this is so much bigger than bitcoin.


Lol. You made a good comment, I dunno why you got downvoted.

One thing to note: key stretching is a good idea nonetheless. hashing ASICs will be millions of times slower _regardless_. They may be hundreds of times faster than a computer, and hundreds of times cheaper... but the effect doesn't get you what a good Bcrypt-difficulty 12 gets you (ie: key-stretching with ~4million hashes)




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