The mining company, CoinTerra, announced a reduced pricing opportunity for their second batch of specialized
ASIC mining equipment.
September 12, 2013 — Austin, TX — CoinTerra™www.cointerra.com — the performance and new value leader in Bitcoin ASIC Mining solutions — today announced aggressive pricing on its second batch of specialized
ASIC mining equipment.
Not exact matches
Developers tend to introduce new
mining algorithms in an attempt to tackle
ASICs (special designed
mining equipment) while trying to introducing more efficient solutions to the
mining proof of work.
First, of all, they can buy some specialized
equipment which, even if it doesn't nearly reach the performance of
ASICs, can easily beat GPU
mining.
And according to a recent report from the Royal Bank of Canada, the market size for cryptocurrency
mining will grow only bigger with
mining equipment for bitcoin expected to lead the way, with a market size of more than $ 4 billion; while
ASIC (application - specific integrated circuit chip)-
mined cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin cash are expected to have a market cap of around $ 350 - $ 450 million.
GPU and
ASIC mining can be very profitable if you get your
equipment for a good price along with low cost in electricity.
ASIC chips (the only option for
mining bitcoin) can be considerably more costly than traditional graphics processing units, and technology these days becomes obsolete in a matter of months, not years, requiring miners to constantly upgrade their
equipment to compete against other individuals and
mining farms.
Bitcoin Gold decentralizes
mining by adopting a PoW algorithm, Equihash, which can not be run faster on the specialty
equipment used for Bitcoin
mining (
ASIC miners.)
GMO, a major Japanese technology company, has already launched a trading platform for institutional investor and established a manufacturing line to create bitcoin
ASIC miners and other
mining equipment.
Then as the price of bitcoin, and so the value of the reward, increased, people started investing in
mining equipment, and began manufacturing chips called
ASICs (Application - Specific Integrated Circuits) that were good for nothing except hashing /
mining (so take popular comparisons with the world's supercomputers with a pinch of salt).
The report also asserts that the market for cryptocurrency
mining is here to stay, arguing that there currently exists an at least $ 4.2 billion market for bitcoin
mining equipment with an additional $ 350 - $ 450 million for other
ASIC -
mined cryptocurrencies like bitcoin cash and another $ 1.9 billion market for GPU -
mined coins like ethereum and monero.
Therefore,
ASIC specialized
mining equipment used in Bitcoin
mining can not mine Bitcoin Gold because they can not run the
ASIC algorithm.
Bitcoin Gold wants to tackle this problem by releasing their own
mining algorithm that isn't susceptible to
ASICs, rendering this high - end
equipment useless.
Digital
Mining Investments is moving quickly to recover from the incident and loss of both bitcoin and mining hardware, which included KnCminer ASICs and other equipment that has been seen for sale online, according to Ke
Mining Investments is moving quickly to recover from the incident and loss of both bitcoin and
mining hardware, which included KnCminer ASICs and other equipment that has been seen for sale online, according to Ke
mining hardware, which included KnCminer
ASICs and other
equipment that has been seen for sale online, according to Kenrick.
However, while bitcoin miners gain a distinct advantage when using expensive,
mining - specific
equipment called
ASIC, there is no such advantage with Bitcoin Gold.
The largest South Korean company has partnered with a Chinese bitcoin
mining equipment manufacturer in order to produce
ASIC chips.
«Samsung is operating a foundry that supplies a Chinese cryptocurrency
mining firm with
mining equipment and
ASIC chips.
ASIC - based miners overtop competitors» CPUs and GPUs, creating a real threat of
mining concentration between the largest players provided with the most powerful
equipment.
China - based Bitmain, the world's largest producer of
ASIC miners, began selling
equipment for Ethereum
mining, while the community shows growing discontent of Bitmain's tactic to enter the market of GPU
mining.
Canaan is one of the leading manufacturers of cryptocurrency
mining equipment and currently supplies around a quarter of
ASIC miners.
But, over time, GMO Group expanded its cryptocurrency venture, launching a bitcoin
mining center and
mining equipment manufacturing factory to produce
ASIC mining chips.
The decision to carry out the hardfork was made after the Chinese
mining equipment manufacturer Bitmain, the largest one of its kind in the world, had released an
ASIC miner Antminer X3 for CryptoNight algorithm, used by Monero and several other cryptocurrencies.
The report also asserts that the market for cryptocurrency
mining is here to stay, arguing that there currently exists a at least $ 4.2 billion market for bitcoin
mining equipment with an additional $ 350 - $ 450 million for other
ASIC -
mined cryptocurrencies like bitcoin cash and another $ 1.9 billion market for GPU -
mined coins like ethereum and monero.
Bitcoin Gold decentralizes
mining by adopting a Proof - of - Work algorithm, Equihash, which can not be run faster on the specialty
equipment used for Bitcoin
mining (
ASIC miners).