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Not really, no. As the name implies, these ASICs are highly specialized. They take in a half-calculated 512 bit SHA-256 block, and hash it twice.

So unless you need to SHA256 hash something twice at a rate of trillions of hashes per second, there's really no alternative use. But, again, that's the purpose of ASICs: an increase in performance from a decrease in generality.



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