{"id":45351,"date":"2021-07-01T15:38:41","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T12:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=45351"},"modified":"2025-09-01T10:40:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T07:40:48","slug":"elon-musk-denies-reports-of-dogecoin-mining-on-teslas-dojo-supercomputer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/elon-musk-denies-reports-of-dogecoin-mining-on-teslas-dojo-supercomputer\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk denies reports of Dogecoin mining on Tesla&#8217;s Dojo supercomputer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla CEO Elon Musk said it is not possible to use the Dojo supercomputer to mine Dogecoin.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sorry for any confusion. Dojo is a neural network training computer optimized for video (for self-driving).<\/p>\n<p>Unless there is a predictable pattern to hashing Scrypt (which we will not attempt to find), it will not be competitive with ASIC-based hashing.<\/p>\n<p>Potatoes are delicious!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1410510912780337154?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 1, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to him, the company\u2019s supercomputer under development is designed for processing video streams and training neural networks.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u00abThe device will not compete with the Scrypt hashing algorithm, and it cannot be used [for mining Dogecoin],\u00bb Musk wrote.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He also apologized for his February tweet &#8216;Dojo 4 Doge&#8217; that could be misinterpreted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Dojo 4 Doge<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1363601164344823810?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p>Dojo is a supercomputer Tesla is developing to train artificial intelligence and to build an autonomous driving system for Tesla electric vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/automation-has-pushed-wages-down-ai-finds-missing-person-and-other-ai-news\">the developers&#8217; assertion<\/a>, the installation currently comprises 720 nodes, each containing eight NVIDIA A100 accelerators. In total this amounts to 5,760 devices, and their combined performance reaches 1.8 exaFLOPS.<\/p>\n<p>Unconfirmed reports suggest Tesla will unveil Dojo by the end of 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in May, a team of four core Dogecoin developers said that <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/dogecoin-developers-say-they-have-been-working-with-elon-musk-since-2019\">has been working with Elon Musk since 2019<\/a>. Among his initiatives was increasing network throughput.<\/p>\n<p>In late June, Musk backed a proposal to update the Dogecoin network from the altcoin&#8217;s developer. Among other things, it provides <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/elon-musk-backs-dogecoin-developers-proposal-to-cut-fees\">a 100-fold reduction in the average transaction fee<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news, infographics and opinions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla CEO Elon Musk said it is not possible to use the Dojo supercomputer to mine Dogecoin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1137,99,1217,634,1319],"class_list":["post-45351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-dogecoin","tag-elon-musk","tag-supercomputers","tag-tesla"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"64","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45353,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45351\/revisions\/45353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}