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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (7 children)

Aren't GPUs better at mining?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Not anymore. Bitcoin now requires dedicated hardware (ASICs). Other coins were designed to make use of ASICs impossible or impractical, requiring GPUs, but those still require a CPU to drive them.

New developments, such as Ethereum moving away from proof of work to proof of stake made GPUs unnecessary, but you still need a computer with a CPU to validate the blocks on the block-chain.

Edit: Even with ASICs mining bitcoin, you still need servers to distribute the work to them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

need a computer with a CPU

So, like... a computer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Analog computers don't have CPUs as we understand them...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

so the calculations are done on the cpu now?

is that why the powerful chips are being bought?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

It depends on the coin, but basically, yes.

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