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Litecoin asic L3+ and Scrypt hash - gentl - 11-24-2019
Hello again, i want to ask
Is it technically possible in theory to use Litecoin Asic L3+ for brute -m 15700 hash?
I think that there are several ways to do this
1) Make special hashcat firmware for asic - rather unreal for third party devs
2) Send tasks from hashcat to ASIC like a mining pool, but i am not sure is it real to simulate bruting like a mining requests
Tell me pls you opinion and sorry if question is silly.
RE: Litecoin asic L3+ and Scrypt hash - undeath - 11-24-2019
ASICs are very very specific about the thing they do. You won't be able to utilise those for anything but litecoin mining.
RE: Litecoin asic L3+ and Scrypt hash - Kryczek - 11-25-2019
Basically maximum performance requires minimum flexibility and vice versa:
* ASICs are the fastest because they are chips designed specifically for one task and one task only
* GPUs are fast as long as all cores all do exactly the same thing just with different data
* CPUs can do pretty much everything possible with software
* FPGAs can do even more as they essentially emulate hardware
RE: Litecoin asic L3+ and Scrypt hash - gentl - 11-25-2019
I know FPGA very strong and fast in mining, but they need well knowledge to make program for it