Recent content by Mqrius

I don't know any bank people that are actively mining. In fact, banks and such are only starting to get interested now. But as for people who have huge amounts of mining power, yes, the FPGAs are what is most commonly used at the moment along with GPUs. "The masses" still use only GPUs since...

Haha, although I can't deny that there are probably botnets mining Bitcoin, the large majority is actually people's own hardware. The main reason for this is that mining on a CPU is simply practically useless. GPUs are about a factor 100 faster at it, and botnets tend not to have very fancy...

Thanks :) The center of the fan is where the actuator is located, which means there's a column in the center that's not blown on directly. Perhaps the air there will still move due to a drag effect, but I don't know how strong that effect would be.

I made this video a while back: The black box is a bitcoin miner (irrelevant) with a fan that blows upwards just underneath the holes. I was trying to make the piece of paper float. I think this should be possible since the air velocity is higher on the outsides of the fan than in the...