Posted by: SUEhoward
« on: 17. January 2014., 13:23:55 »Oh, so ASIC hardware could really be recycled. What I love about ASIC is that it work just as well on Peercoin as they do Bitcoin.
Investigating...
Some snippets!
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/List_of_alternative_cryptocurrencies
GREAT overview!
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=263054.0
Can you use Bitcoin ASIC hardware to mine SHA256 alt-coins? Namecoin, Terracoin, PPcoin, and a few others use SHA-256. Couldn ASIC devices (Avalon, BFL, etc) that are used to mine Bitcoins be used to mine other SHA256 based coins? Could you just use a BFL Single and have Cgminer point at a PPcoin pool to start mining away?
Like wise, could FPGAs used to mine Litecoin be used for other Scrypt coins?
And to see which currencies are SHA-256d or scrypt-only, see this: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/List_of_alternative_cryptocurrencies
So many more questions... But yeah, I think it has a Big Future...