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Add ASIC support

Open eugbaranov opened this issue 12 years ago • 2 comments

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

eugbaranov avatar Feb 10 '13 23:02 eugbaranov

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

scintill avatar Feb 27 '13 20:02 scintill

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.

ryancdotorg avatar May 25 '13 21:05 ryancdotorg