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loeg
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BlazingDB uses GPUs to manipulate huge databases i...
It's surprising you can still do cryptocurrency mining with GPUs. Not bitcoin, then?
optimiz3
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Ethereum, Monero, and even Ethereum-Classic (difficulty/arbitrage/exchange rate permitting) are all good GPU candidates -
SHA-256d (Bitcoin) and Scrypt (Litecoin) have ASICs, X11 (Dash - formerly Darkcoin) has FPGAs.
mappu
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The GP didn't say that their mining is done on GPUs.
loeg
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It is implied that mining is how they are familiar with bit error problems in GPUs.
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