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Add ASIC support #21

Open eugbaranov opened 11 years ago

eugbaranov commented 11 years ago

With ASIC's coming out soon I wonder how difficult would it be to implement?

scintill commented 11 years ago

Mining ASICs probably don't do the EC math needed for vanity generation.

ryancdotorg commented 11 years ago

ASIC stands for Application Specific Integrated Circuit. In the case of mining ASICs, the application is Bitcoin mining using double sha256. Double sha256 isn't useful in any way for generating vanity addresses, so this is not possible.