You know......
With so many f*** Crypto/Hash and ASIC experts in this thread... by now the planet should be flooded with bit-coin producing ASICS
Please just go buy an FPGA development board and build a demo engine ... or at the very least go do some research.
At the end of it.....you may even be able to have a decent conversation about clock buffers.........
Hold on a sec, I promise i will reply. Just give me a few moments to google what a clock buffer is/does.
No need to, I think what he meant to say is GTFO.
There has been dozens and dozens of people who did extensive cost analysis already, Thank you anyway.
Even if it took 2 year to pay for your said ASIC R&D, remind yourself bitcoin isn't going to stay in the XX$ range forever and some people will want do it even at a lost to secure the network.