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Board CPU/GPU Bitcoin mining hardware
Re: Other purposes for ASIC hardware.
by
brucemangy
on 31/10/2013, 20:25:09 UTC
bitcoin use SHA256 twice. It is worthless for any other use than bruteforcing SHA256(SHA256())

A block is a bunch of transactions + junk that we bruteforce to get a SHA256 Hash of the SHA256 Hash that has enough leading ZEROs to achieve the required difficulty.

You cannot bruteforce SHA256 with it ...