Would depend how far off they are from the original. A computer is a programmable machine, if I swap hard drives I can load up Linux, or Windows, or hackintosh...the boot device loads the information into the computer. Think of the ASIC miners more like a car wash. No matter how many times you turn...

I seen on twitter mostly under bitmain's tweets people asking for updated firmware to mine other algorithms on their D3 because they are upset about the profitability of x11. Does anyone know if this is even possible? I know some other asics can do multiple algos but they might be differently design...

There are some interesting comments here that I want to reply to, but can't reply until the end of the day. I'll come back here in 8 hours. For now, all the corrections have been issued, and users affected were given the usual 15% bonus, and this issue should now be resolved. Smart and mature move ...

I mean backup pools right? I appreciate the pool, the profits and how much work was clearly put in here. I hope the problem is minor and easily resolved.