Buying old ASIC Miners for F@H and BOINC?

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I’m honestly really annoyed about cryptocurrecncy, even if I think it couild be useful in the future when normal bills are a pain in the dick to keep.

On craigslist right now theres multiple old miners ranging from 700-7000 dollars. My area is full of these fuckers. So… Could I plop them on F@H or BOINC? Is that possible? Could I do other things with them? Or are they only greed machines?

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The AS in ASIC stands for “Application Specific”. These devices were designed to compute hashes and nothing else.

Unless you’re trying to crack passwords they are useless.

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You’d actually have more luck buying used IBM ppc64 systems (AS400), install Ubuntu on them and then use them for BOINC or F@H.

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