no, those computations are not useful for anything else. capturing the heat is really the best you can do.

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there's also the question of bandwidth. right now the miner only needs to send a single number over the wire, the nonce, and only when it actually finds a block. the rest of the results are ignored. if you instead wanted to transmit those, you'd be sending trillions of numbers per second, and that will add up fast.