FPGA

m ha scritto:

afaikt it'll average 0.1BTC per month at the current difficulty, so if you have cheap electricity ....

Interesting but it doesn't tell me what's inside. At $4500 and

1BTC/yr, _today_, it doesn't see like a great investment, even with cheap electricity. It could be an FPGA at that price. ;-)

Funny that it has come down to the cost of the electricity to run it. I wonder if this will become the driving force to design new fab processes that optimize the operational cost for bitcoin?

How many electrons does it take to generate a new bitcoin in the theoretical limit?

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In the theroretical limit, assuming a fair market, as many as you can buy for one bitcoin, because difficulty scales with participation.

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