Quote from: creighto on August 17, 2010, 08:51:11 PM
I would be willing to bet that someone used one of these Field-programmable gate array to do this…
http://www.springerlink.com/content/765kta4qr92daea8/
which is something that I, myself, obviously has considered. Whoever is doing it is probably representing a great deal of the current hash percentage, and hogging a pretty good amount of the new bitcoins.
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A lot of hand waving there. For some concrete numbers it quotes 53 MB/s and since we only hash 192 bytes at a time, you might think it would do 0.27 mhash/s (but it probably would be less) which is actually within the range of a desktop.
Ya, someone might! They measure out about 1.5 mhash/s. There are many ordinary Intel or AMD CPUs can do much better than that (with a little more electric power input tho).