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Board Altcoin Discussion
Re: Can the asic miners mine scrypt currencies ?
by
Buratino
on 16/08/2013, 04:15:51 UTC
No, current SHA256 ASIC miners can't. Scrypt algorithm has loops which require a lot of memory and all operations have to be sequential which can't be made parallel, so it needs full computing environment (cpu-ram) for one hashing process. The algorithm was designed in this way to avoid hacking.