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What about Pixar? Couldn't they turn their renderfarm towards bitcoins and crowd everyone else out?


The stats I saw on Pixar's render farm is 3000 AMD processors. Without knowing the exact CPU, let's pick a reasonable estimate that each cranks out about 5 mhps. That's a total hashspeed of 15 ghps. The current bitcoin network is pumping out over 500 ghps. No one would even notice if Pixar put the whole farm on bitcoin mining.




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