| berndj | i wonder if there'll be a "next stage" in the bitcoin mining arms race | 12:33 |
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| berndj | the asic miners can't be *that* far behind the state of the art in feature sizes | 12:33 |
| berndj | so moore's law might give us bigger mining chips, but i guess they'd also use more power, so there seems to be an equilibrium there | 12:34 |
| berndj | actually, what does power consumption per gate per unit area look like as a function of feature size? is it still decreasing as we scale down, or has it started increasing again? | 12:35 |
| berndj | (leakage becoming a bigger factor at smaller feature sizes) | 12:36 |
| Sync | well I guess that the asics are pretty large | 12:38 |
| Sync | otherwise they would be much more expensive | 12:38 |
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