05-13-2021, 11:07 PM
I calculated how many crabs you need for mining Ethereum and Bitcoin entirely on cra
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Yes, you read that well. <a href="https://interestingengineering.com/crabs-could-run-doom#:%7E:text=%22Scientists%20have%20also%20successfully%20built,to%20store%20a%20single%20tweet">Scientists discovered back in 2012 that it's possible to create and operate logic gates (transistors) with swarms of soldier crabs</a>. I discovered this recently and inmediatly thought 'hey, there's a GPU supply shortage but not a crab supply shortage. What if mining on crabs is the next pro move?' So I had to make some maths. I'm going to tell you how many crabs you need for making a 1GH/s hashrate crab Ethereum mining rig. Let's go:</p> <p>An RTX 3080 has a hashrate of approximately 100 MH/s (ethash). That means we need x10 RTX 3080 for achieving 1 GH/s. Wait, do we?</p> <p>The RTX 3080's chip GA102-200-K1-A1 has 28.3 billion transistors. We need 10 of them for achieving our hashrate goal so that means we need at least 283 billion transistors.</p> <p>It takes 80 soldier crabs to create and operate a transistor. 283.000.000.000 x 80 = 22.640.000.000.000</p> <p>You need 22.640.000.000.000 soldier crabs for mining ETH at a 1GH/s hashrate. Easy right?</p> <p>But there's more! I also calculated how many crabs you need for mining BTC:</p> <p>A Bitmain Antminer S19 Pro uses a 5nm architecture chip and gets a 110 TH/s hashrate. A conventional chip's surface size is 14,062 cm^2. <a href="https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/5_nm_lithography_process">In a 5nm architecture chip there are approximately 230.000.000 transistors per square milimeter</a>. 14,062 cm^2 equals 14.062 mm^2. 14.062 * 230.000.000 = 3.234.260.000.000. There are approximately 3.234.260.000.000 transistors in an Antminer S19 Pro. That means we would need 3.234.260.000.000*80 = 258.740.800.000.000.000 crabs for mining BTC at a 110 TH/s hashrate. </p> <p>'How do you keep such an amount of crabs cool? Thats a lot of heat!' You might be thinking. Well, good news! Crabs are totally water proof so you can submerge them in the ocean. Voilá! </p> <p>You can also use this knowledge for building a CGPU (Crab Graphics Processing Unit) for gaming. Who needs GPUs? Go get some crabs!</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/danielrp00"> /u/danielrp00 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/nb5fhn/i_calculated_how_many_crabs_you_need_for_mining/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/nb5fhn/i_calculated_how_many_crabs_you_need_for_mining/">[comments]</a></span>Kind Regards R
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Yes, you read that well. <a href="https://interestingengineering.com/crabs-could-run-doom#:%7E:text=%22Scientists%20have%20also%20successfully%20built,to%20store%20a%20single%20tweet">Scientists discovered back in 2012 that it's possible to create and operate logic gates (transistors) with swarms of soldier crabs</a>. I discovered this recently and inmediatly thought 'hey, there's a GPU supply shortage but not a crab supply shortage. What if mining on crabs is the next pro move?' So I had to make some maths. I'm going to tell you how many crabs you need for making a 1GH/s hashrate crab Ethereum mining rig. Let's go:</p> <p>An RTX 3080 has a hashrate of approximately 100 MH/s (ethash). That means we need x10 RTX 3080 for achieving 1 GH/s. Wait, do we?</p> <p>The RTX 3080's chip GA102-200-K1-A1 has 28.3 billion transistors. We need 10 of them for achieving our hashrate goal so that means we need at least 283 billion transistors.</p> <p>It takes 80 soldier crabs to create and operate a transistor. 283.000.000.000 x 80 = 22.640.000.000.000</p> <p>You need 22.640.000.000.000 soldier crabs for mining ETH at a 1GH/s hashrate. Easy right?</p> <p>But there's more! I also calculated how many crabs you need for mining BTC:</p> <p>A Bitmain Antminer S19 Pro uses a 5nm architecture chip and gets a 110 TH/s hashrate. A conventional chip's surface size is 14,062 cm^2. <a href="https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/5_nm_lithography_process">In a 5nm architecture chip there are approximately 230.000.000 transistors per square milimeter</a>. 14,062 cm^2 equals 14.062 mm^2. 14.062 * 230.000.000 = 3.234.260.000.000. There are approximately 3.234.260.000.000 transistors in an Antminer S19 Pro. That means we would need 3.234.260.000.000*80 = 258.740.800.000.000.000 crabs for mining BTC at a 110 TH/s hashrate. </p> <p>'How do you keep such an amount of crabs cool? Thats a lot of heat!' You might be thinking. Well, good news! Crabs are totally water proof so you can submerge them in the ocean. Voilá! </p> <p>You can also use this knowledge for building a CGPU (Crab Graphics Processing Unit) for gaming. Who needs GPUs? Go get some crabs!</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/danielrp00"> /u/danielrp00 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/nb5fhn/i_calculated_how_many_crabs_you_need_for_mining/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/nb5fhn/i_calculated_how_many_crabs_you_need_for_mining/">[comments]</a></span>Kind Regards R