Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
Bitcoin mining hardware is restricted to a single use. That is the meaning of “ASIC”: Application-Specific Integrated Circuit. A Bitcoin mining ASIC can only perform the inner-loop calculation for mining Bitcoin. It cannot be repurposed for anything else.
Compare: https://rya.nc/asic-cracking.html
Edit: I forgot to add: The algorithms usually used to calculate digits of pi are I/O limited, not CPU-limited. That is one of the reasons why supercomputers are usually not used to calculate digits of pi. You need big storage on fast SSDs. Even a pi-digit-specific ASIC would not help you there.
Quote from: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/41717/what-portion-of-the-mining-process-does-an-asic-perform
The inputs to the ASIC chips are a 32 byte midstate, the last 4 bytes of the merkle root, a 4 byte timestamp, and 4 byte "bits" (target/difficulty).
Compare: https://rya.nc/asic-cracking.html
Edit: I forgot to add: The algorithms usually used to calculate digits of pi are I/O limited, not CPU-limited. That is one of the reasons why supercomputers are usually not used to calculate digits of pi. You need big storage on fast SSDs. Even a pi-digit-specific ASIC would not help you there.
Well to be honest I wasn't talking about "ASIC" but only about the computational power that's around GPUs. My ideas was not about calculating the value of Pi, but the fascination of how much computation power we are putting in, in calculating Bitcoin hashes. When I read that computers on Bitcoin network are calculating quintillion of hashes per second I thought for the sake of argument let suppose if we combine all GPUs just to calculate the value of Pi, we can calculate 10x60 quintillion digits of Pi that will be one followed by 20 zeros?
Of course the limitation aside that brilliantly explained by Ryan Castellucci "Why Bitcoin Mining ASICs Won’t Crack Your Password".
But you know in the far far future when we are about to build Dyson spheres we better be having bigger of Pi value
I am not sure whether I understand the answer in regards to the bitcoin network's calulations and pi.. in other words, how many decimal places of pi could the bitcoin network calculate in 10 minutes versus the 121.1 days that were used by the team of 96vCPUs of Emma Haruka? Did I miss the answer? Is there an answer? Her team got 31.4 trillion decimal places, and another variation of the question would be how long would it take the bitcoin network to arrive at that number of decimal places of pi?
Yes exactly that was the question how many decimal places of pi could the bitcoin network calculate in 10 minutes? Just to imagine how much computation power we have in our Bitcoin network.