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If you know how Bitcoin mining works, you might be wondering if using a supercomputer is worth it? Is that a strange idea? The answer is it’s not worth it.

Supercomputers running Bitcoin mining?

Supercomputers have different needs than Bitcoin miners because they have to solve other tasks. For professional Bitcoin miners, so-called ASIC chips are used, which are optimized for the hashing SHA-256 algorithm. If a supercomputer were to mine Bitcoin now, the hashrate would not change much. Furthermore, the success of the supercomputer will be controversial because it is very inefficient compared to Asics. Possibly so incompetent that the cost of running electricity is higher than the revenue it generates. One statistic shows that even the 500 fastest supercomputers in the world together cannot afford all the hashing power provided by the Bitcoin network.

Bitcoin Mining and Its Key Factors

As mentioned before, Bitcoin mining requires significant computing power to perform cryptographic hash functions. Many rigid Bitcoin mining rigs are created with GPUs, FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) and ASICs (Application Specific Integrated Circuits). You can surmise that some supercomputers are spending their time mining Bitcoin.

Supercomputers utilize massive CPU allocations to process large units of data called vector processing, but they don't have much GPU power. It's more passive than ASICs with new GPUs and integrated circuits designed for special purposes rather than general purpose.

Today, Bitcoin mining is usually implemented using ASIC chips. They are deeply optimized for the single goal of solving the computation required for Bitcoin mining. The lack of generality can greatly extend the efficiency of its general purpose machines. This has resulted in an approximately 20,000-fold increase in development of the Bitcoin hashrate network since the release of the original Bitcoin ASIC. This lack of adaptability allows for an increase in their efficiency relative to general-purpose hardware, and the Bitcoin network's hashrate (total computing power) has risen approximately 20,000 times (twenty thousand times) since the original Bitcoin ASIC has been shipped. General-purpose chips are much less efficient at mining Bitcoin and therefore have no chance of competing.

Supercomputers are being used to mine Bitcoin in Russia

In February, a number of nuclear scientists were arrested in Russia who wanted to misuse supercomputers for Bitcoin mining. When scientists want to connect supercomputers to the Bitcoin network, this is clearly not allowed. The authorities immediately took action and arrested the scientists, and the supercomputers had been used to perform physics calculations.

The future of Bitcoin mining

There is speculation that the future of Bitcoin is in jeopardy due to quantum computers. A paper published on arxiv.org shows how quantum computers can disrupt and undermine Bitcoin’s security protocols. The computing power curve signature system used by Bitcoin is in danger, and some inferences say that the SHA256 algorithm is expected to be cracked by quantum machines in 2027.