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The Illusion of Mining Bitcoin on GPUs

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Copyright: Sanjay Basu There is a certain kind of optimism that never quite dies in our industry. It shows up every few years. A new wave of hardware arrives. Someone looks at a powerful GPU cluster and asks a simple question. Can this print Bitcoin? It is a fair question. It is also the wrong one. Because what you are really asking is not whether it works. It does. In the same way you can cross an ocean on a rowboat. The question is whether it makes any sense at all. The answer, if we stay honest, is no. The Scale Problem Nobody Escapes Let’s start with first principles. Bitcoin mining is not about compute in the abstract. It is about compute shaped in a very specific way. SHA 256 hashing. Deterministic. Brutal. Repetitive. No room for cleverness. This is why ASICs exist. A modern Bitcoin ASIC pushes well above 100 terahashes per second. That is not a typo. That is the baseline. Entire racks scale into exahashes. Now place a GPU next to it. Even a powerful accelerator like an A100 is ...
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The Coming Split in AI Software Engineering

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  Copyright: Sanjay Basu AI Native IDEs versus Agentic Operating Systems I am on my way to NVIDIA GTC 2026. Every year this event marks a kind of geological boundary in computing. The ground shifts. Quietly at first. Then all at once. This year feels different. Not because of one product. Because of what the full arc of NVIDIA’s hardware story is now telling us. From a desktop sitting on your workbench to a rack in a hyperscaler’s facility to a next-generation chip that has not yet shipped, the story is the same. The infrastructure for intelligence is being built at every altitude simultaneously. And the software world has not caught up to what that means. But it is going to change. Lots of amazing announcements from NVIDIA next week at GTC! From the Desk to the Data Center The DGX Spark is the most interesting product NVIDIA has announced in years. Not because of raw performance. Because of what it represents philosophically. A local desktop. With serious AI compute. Sitting next ...
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