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ithkuil on Sept 20, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Clocks for Software Engineers

I don't know the details of the circuitry needed for bitcoin hashing, but it can contain steps that are not executed continuously and hence being idle until they have some work to do (i.e. they have some inputs). Reducing the power consumption of a miner directly translates into making more money.

firethief on Sept 20, 2017 [–]

Pipelining would make those idle circuits useful rather than less costly

15155 on Sept 20, 2017 | [–]

And as far as I know, most of these are heavily pipelined already.

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