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Bitcoin mining behemoth Bitmain has unveiled its next-generation ASIC chip soon to be used in the firm’s new “Antminer” crypto mining machines.
Bitcoin tech company Bitfury has released a new generation of ASIC Bitcoin mining hardware, and plans to integrate it into its other mining products.
Co-founder of the world’s sixth largest crypto mining pool has published a list of break-even price points for various crypto miner models.
Ethereum core devs have discussed the upcoming Constantinople hard fork and the “difficulty bomb” impact on block rewards at a regular meeting.
Japanese tech giant SoftBank denies alleged investment in crypto mining firm Bitmain, with Tencent yet to confirm and Bitmain refusing to comment.
Bitmain has announced company policies to boost shipping and mining processes and ensure a “fair and transparent cryptocurrency ecosystem.”
Graphics card suppliers will lower their prices in July, sources say, as the crypto market correction has led to less mining demand.
Analysis
With the growing complexity of the network and competition on the market, smaller miners give way to mining farms, specialised in industrial mining.
Bitmain is looking to artificial intelligence as the natural option to turn to in case of an increase in China’s already stringent crypto regulations.
Subsequent to Monero hard fork Ethereum may abandon PoW to send ASIC miners to the penalty bench.
Graphics cards have given ordinary people the ability to mine cryptocurrencies but the emergence of ASIC miners has thrown a spanner in the works.
Online mining hardware retailer MyRig recently revealed that Samsung produces the ASIC chips for new miners from Halong Mining.
Monero has successfully completed a hard fork designed to protect the network from certain ASIC miners.
Chinese hardware giant Bitmain has released Ethash ASIC miners for sale, the first units are set to ship in mid-July.
Top Ethereum devs cause online stir with talk of a hard fork in protocol to combat mining centralization.
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Samsung announced a deal on Monday to produce ASIC chips with Taiwanese foundry TSMC, Bitmain’s supplier of mining hardware.
Confusion abounds over Bitcoin forks such as Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin Gold. Don’t worry-there’s really only one Bitcoin.
Chinese mining hardware manufacturer Bitmain made 2017 profits comparable to American GPU manufacturer Nvidia, reports.
Mining
Bitmain has turned its attention to high-speed Ethereum mining after revealing an Antminer for Dash this month.
ASIC cards threaten the network security, cryptocurrency developers concerned.
Samsung’s foray into ASIC chip manufacturing is good news for the global mining community.
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Bitmain’s reported new ETH mining ASIC has led a Wall Street analyst to lower AMD’s share rating, as well as Nvidia’s share price targets.
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Bitmain Technologies welcomed another milestone this year, receiving investments worth $50 mln from Sequoia and IDG.
