4 May
2024
4 May
'24
7:13 p.m.
On Sat, May 4, 2024 at 12:28 PM W2HX via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
Sure but at $60k per bitcoin it only takes 267
bitcoins to earn a $1M profit on that $15M per year cost! But I have no idea if a machine
like that could mine 266 coins in a year or 22/month.
I'm not really sure if Cheyenne could ever mine a single bitcoin at
this point. Bitcoin mining (as I understand it) moved from CPUs (like
Cheyenne, even if it has a lot of them) to GPUs many years ago, and it
has now even been quite a few years since they abandoned the use of
GPUs too. Today it's done on huge clusters of ASIC hash calculators.
You need to be able to do something like 3,000 trillion SHA-256 hashes
per second to make one Bitcoin per day (at least according to a quick
search).
If by "Bitcoin" you mean crypto-mining in general, there's probably
something it could be used for, but it would be horribly inefficient
compared to more modern hardware.
The first uses for Cheyenne that seem to pop to mind (Crypto and AI)
are actually the two WORST applications for it I think. It might still
be reasonably good at the kind of simulations it was acquired to run
(atmospheric sims, etc.)