Bitcoin prices showed a downward trend last week, which has been around 60,000 yuan, with the price of bitcoin miners dropping slightly. 17 Jan 2018, Bitmain, one of the largest mining equipment manufacturers, launched the Antminer A3, a new Antminer model to mine cryptocurrencies using the hashing algorithm Blake (2b). Currently the mostly used […]
Bitmain is diversifying into GPU powered mining rigs with the Antminer G1 and G2. GPU mining picked up major steam over the last year with altcoins like Ethereum, Monero, Zcash and Zcoin gaining value. This has made demand for GPUs grow to the point AMD and Nvidia are making GPUs directly for mining cryptocurrencies. The […]
Despite the recent AsicBoost and Antbleed scandals, Bitmain remains the world’s premier ASIC manufacturer. Their hardware is just that good that, in most cases, anyone who wants to mine Bitcoin is forced to hold their nose and buy from Bitmain. It’s estimated that their hardware currently powers around 70% of the Bitcoin network. Antminer’s S9, […]
The Antminer S9 , the most powerful and efficient miner to date was introduced not so long ago due to the fact that it gets really more challenging to make a profit as a Bitcoin miner because of the increasing difficulty to mine Bitcoins. Thus, it created the impression that only this Bitcoin miner is […]
HashFlare History HashCoins who offered hosting for mining contracts on last quarter of 2015 had officially launched also their cloud mining service called HashFlare last 23rd of April 2015. They offered both altcoins and Bitcoin cloud mining services. HashFlare used a non-stock version of Apollo miner for their Bitcoin mining with SHA-256. HashFlare uses their […]
Pros Highest available hashrate at ~14 TH/s Very efficient at ~0.1 Joule per GH/s Cons High cost at ~$2100 (USD) Power supply sold separately (adding another $170 – $200） AntMiner S9: Game Changer for Hobbyist Miners? Bitcoin’s Difficulty has recorded several strong and often consecutive monthly increases since its creation, and especially from late November […]
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