Does the acorn only run with the acorn-mining-software ?
Sort of. For now. I mean it's not even out yet, but the API to interact with the acorn will be made public so that dev's can make their faster-but-not-free mining software for us at their discretion. Or you can use it to find prime numbers or something, if you want. Javascript accelerator? Gotta be some interesting uses for these outside of mining.
Just so you know, that was answered in the first post lol
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I will also be publishing the interface for the bitstreams so that open source miners that wish to can use the FPGA directly.
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- David