<p>ASIC miners hash quicker with less electricity draw over time due to microprocessor chip advancements, ie J/TH efficiency. ASIC are only designed to do the SHA-256 algo, whereas CPUs and GPUs can be reprogrammable. In general ASIC advancements follow Moore's law.</p>

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<p>I'd like to understand how ASIC miners are more efficient at mining bitcoin. Having a background in CS, how does the ASIC miner work on a binary level on the CPU and why is it so much faster?</p>

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How does an ASIC Bitcoin miner work on a fundamental level?
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# How does an ASIC Bitcoin miner work on a fundamental level?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2021-03-05)

I'd like to understand how ASIC miners are more efficient at mining bitcoin. Having a background in CS, how does the ASIC miner work on a binary level on the CPU and why is it so much faster?

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> **username_1**: Does https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/12029/5406 or https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/16940/5406 perhaps answer your question?  

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### Answer by username_2 on 2021-10-11. Score: 1

ASIC miners hash quicker with less electricity draw over time due to microprocessor chip advancements, ie J/TH efficiency. ASIC are only designed to do the SHA-256 algo, whereas CPUs and GPUs can be reprogrammable. In general ASIC advancements follow Moore's law.


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