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Next-generation ASIC miners from MicroBT

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The company MicroBT has been producing Bitcoin ASIC miners under the Whatsminer brand for quite some time, and they have firmly secured the second position in popularity after Bitmain's products. In October 2023, this lineup was expanded with new models bearing the indices: M60, M60S, M63, M63S, M66, and M66S. It's worth noting that only three months have passed since the announcement of the enhanced models from the previous generation, M50S++.

Wind Miner K9 ASIC miner for Kaspa at 11GH/s

wind miner K9 kaspa asic The Kaspa cryptocurrency was originally developed for mining on video cards, but has now completely switched to mining on ASICs, due to the already existing ASIC miners from Bitmain and IceRiver, which are approximately 200-250 times faster with the same power consumption than video cards. If almost everyone who is even slightly interested in ASIC miners knows about the solutions from Iceriver and Bitmain, then WindMiner K9, which is also designed for mining using the KHeavyHash algorithm, is no longer so popular.

AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT Cryptocurrency Mining Hashrate

radeon rx7700xt mining hash rate Almost a year after announcing their flagship graphics card models, the RX 7900 series, AMD released their mid-budget models, the RX 7700 XT and RX 7800 XT, in September 2023. During the times of the RX 480 and RX 580, AMD's offerings were the most profitable graphics cards for mining in terms of price/performance ratio and were in high demand among both miners and gamers. However, considering the long delay in the release of the RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT, even AMD itself seems uncertain about the success of these graphics cards. Nevertheless, we will still evaluate the new RX 7700 XT from AMD for its use in cryptocurrency mining and compare it with competing solutions from Nvidia.

Bitmain introduced Antminer S21

Bitmain Antminer S21 asic On September 22, 2023, the leading ASIC miner manufacturing company, Bitmain, unveiled a new generation of ASIC miners for the SHA-256 algorithm (Bitcoin) in Hong Kong, called the Antminer S21. This time, Bitmain departed slightly from tradition by introducing both a standard version with air cooling and a Hydro version with water cooling simultaneously. Until this point, the Hydro version had always been released significantly later than the main model.

Boosting the Antminer L7 ASIC Miner to 11 GH/s

antminer l7 boost firmware The Bitmain Antminer L7 ASIC Miner is designed for cryptocurrency mining using the Scrypt algorithm. Currently, this algorithm is primarily used to mine cryptocurrencies such as Litecoin and Dogecoin. Since the profitability of dual mining Litecoin and Dogecoin is now at the breakeven point for most miners due to electricity costs, overclocking or, conversely, reducing the hash rate to increase energy efficiency is more relevant than ever.

Bitmain XMR Miner X5 - an ASIC miner for the RandomX algorithm

asic miner XMR X5 RandomX Bitmain has announced the first ASIC miner for mining the cryptocurrency Monero using the RandomX algorithm. The RandomX algorithm itself is considered GPU and ASIC resistant and is designed for mining on central processing units (CPUs). For comparison, an RTX 3090 graphics card achieves 2KH/s on this algorithm with a power consumption of 290W, which is equivalent to a mobile Intel i7 1250U processor consuming 9W. If we take a modern desktop processor like the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X, its hash rate on the RandomX algorithm would be 26KH/s with a power consumption of 200W. In other words, prior to the appearance of the first ASICs, RandomX was intended exclusively for CPU mining, and whether Bitmain has managed to change this assertion will be revealed further in this article.

Pre-orders are now open for the Antminer S19j XP

bitmain antminer s19j XP Bitmain has initiated pre-orders for their new ASIC miner, the Antminer S19j XP, which stands as their most powerful air-cooled ASIC to date. Essentially, it's an S19 XP model but with higher-quality ASIC chips. While the S19 XP offers 141TH and consumes 3031W, the S19j XP boasts 151TH with a power consumption of 3247W. Maintaining an energy efficiency of 21.5J/TH, this not only involves chip overclocking but also the selection of superior chips for the S19j XP model. If it were merely a factory overclock of the chips' frequencies, the energy efficiency of such a solution would be lower.

Firmware for Overclocking Antminer S19 90Th with 126 Chips

firmware ASIC S19 in 104 TH The company Bitmain offers a wide range of ASIC miners, and there are about a dozen different models of S19 alone. Moreover, the standard Antminer S19 model with 90 terahashes has several variations. These variations of the S19 differ in the number of ASIC chips they contain, ranging from 76, 88 chips to 126 chips. The model with 126 chips is particularly popular because with a simple firmware modification, the hash rate of this model can be enhanced to a more advanced version known as the S19j PRO.

The new manufacturer of Bitcoin ASIC miners is Auradine Teraflux.

teraflux aircooled bitcoin asic The American company Auradine has introduced the first generation of its Bitcoin ASIC miners under the brand Teraflux. The main feature of Teraflux SHA-256 ASIC miners is the patented EnergyTune and AutoTune technology, which allows automatic adjustment of power consumption and hash rate based on the ambient air temperature or electricity cost. In other words, users will be able to adjust the energy efficiency of their ASIC miners according to different operating conditions.

Bitmain Filecoin Miner - profitability calculation

bitmain filecoin miner Bitmain, a company specializing in ASIC miners' production, has released an atypical product, a server miner for the POST (proof-of-spacetime) cryptocurrency Filecoin. POST is a type of POC consensus (proof-of-capacity). POC cryptocurrencies differ from traditional ones in that mining is not based on computational power but on providing free space on various data storage devices such as HDDs and SSDs. Mining such cryptocurrencies does not require developing advanced ASIC chips with cutting-edge technological standards since regular data storage devices can be used. The cheaper the cost per Terabyte of space, the more economically advantageous such a miner will be.

Samsung's First 3nm Chip Detected in ASIC Miner

Although Samsung initiated mass production of chips based on the SF3E process (3nm, GAA transistors) approximately a year ago, few electronics manufacturers have confirmed their utilization in their products. Recently, analysts from TechInsights discovered that one of the first customers to adopt Samsung's 3nm chips is MicroBT, a company specializing in ASIC miners. The SF3E process chip is being applied in their latest cryptominer, the Whatsminer M56S++.

GDDR7 - mining perspectives

gddr7 mining computing power Samsung has unveiled the first generation of GDDR7 video memory, which will be available to graphics card manufacturers by the end of 2023. The key feature of GDDR7 is its increased data transfer speed of up to 32Gbit/s, although Samsung had previously announced working on GDDR7 with 36Gbit/s per pin, possibly indicating a second revision of this memory standard. Compared to the current generation of graphics cards with GDDR6 (18 Gbit/s - RTX 4060Ti, 20 Gbit/s - RX 7900XTX) and GDDR6X (21Gbit/s - RTX4090 and RTX4070, 22.4Gbit/s - RTX 4080), the new generation will see a significant boost in memory subsystem performance if Nvidia and AMD decide to use GDDR7 in their gaming graphics cards next year.

Hashrate of the Geforce RTX 4060 8Gb video card

hasrate RTX4060 Just a few days ago, another Nvidia graphics card from the 4000 series, the RTX 4060, went on sale at a price of 299 USD. Considering the negative trends of the latest models, namely simplification and simultaneous rise in price, which became especially noticeable on the RTX 4060 Ti video card, we will evaluate with interest the mining capabilities of the Geforce RTX 4060 and find out whether this video card is worth the money or better to prefer other options.

New ASIC miners MicroBT Whatsminer M50S++, M53S++ and M56S++

whatsminer m56s++ Asic Bitcoin Asic miner manufacturer Whatsminer has introduced a new line of bitcoin mining devices called M50S++, M53S++ and M56S++. Moreover, the older models M53S++ and M56S++ are intended only for installation in server racks with pre-designed cooling for server stations. Asic miner in the usual format, conditionally for home use, is available only in the younger model M50 ++. A distinctive feature of the sales of new Whatsminer ASIC miners is the factory testing of devices for the quality of ASIC chips, which is why there are several modifications of the same model with different hashrate and, accordingly, with different prices. Those. Whatsmainer began to act like memory, CPU and GPU chip manufacturers by selling the same chip at different prices after testing and rejection. So far, the difference in price between the maximum possible hashrate and the minimum one is not much different, but most likely this is just a probing of the market, and soon this practice among ASIC miner manufacturers may become commonplace.

Asic iPollo X1 for Ethash algorithm in graphics card case

asic miner video card iPollo has announced its new ASIC miner called X1, designed to mine cryptocurrency on the ETHash and ETChash algorithm. ASIC characteristics do not shock anyone, because. this is an analogue of last year's iPollo V1 Mini, but with a significantly lower price and in several types of cases.

AMD Radeon RX 7600 graphics card - cryptocurrency mining and hashrate

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On May 25, 2023, the first entry-level model of the RDNA 3 generation, the Radeon RX 7600, was introduced to the AMD consumer graphics portfolio with a MSRP of $269. Because the announcement of the video card took place the day after the announcement of the RTX 4060 Ti from Nvidia, then you can safely compare these video cards with each other both in terms of price and their efficiency in mining. If the RTX 4060 Ti is not the best choice for mining at its price of 399 USD, then it will be interesting to compare the results in mining with its direct competitor RX 7600.

Nvidia Geforce RTX 4060Ti graphics card - cryptocurrency mining and hashrate

RTX 4060 ti mining and hashrate On May 24, 2023, Nvidia introduced a new mid-range consumer graphics card called the Geforce RTX 4060Ti. Like the entire current RTX 4000 series of graphics cards, the new product offers significantly increased GPU capabilities (22TFLOPS instead of 16TFLOPS for the RTX 3060 Ti), but at the same time, the video memory subsystem has undergone a serious simplification due to which the memory bandwidth of the 4060Ti is almost two times lower than that of the RTX 3060Ti (288Gbit/s vs 448Gbit/s). And this is a rather serious simplification, which will definitely affect the hash rate of this video card in cryptocurrency mining on the algorithms Ethash, ETChash, KawPow and others for the worse. For you to understand the level of video memory performance of the new GPU, they lowered it to the level of the GTX 1070, which was sold back in 2016. How such "large-scale" changes will affect the performance in the mining of the RTX 4060 Ti video card, you will learn further.

Bitmain KAS Miner KS 3 - the most powerful ASIC for Kaspa cryptocurrency

Bitmain once again confirms its status as the number one manufacturer of ASIC miners by releasing the most high-performance asic miner for Kaspa cryptocurrency for free sale. The novelty is called Bitmain KAS Miner KS3 with a hashrate of 8300GH/s with a power consumption of 3188W. For comparison, Osprey's competing E300 hashrate is only 14GH/s at 500W.

Nvidia Geforce RTX 4070 hashrate in cryptocurrency mining

rtx 4070 mining hashrate Nvidia has launched the next Ada Lovelace RTX 4070 generation graphics card, which may be of significant interest to miners due to the growing popularity of mining cryptocurrencies with an emphasis on pure GPU performance: Nexa, Kaspa and others. If the RTX 4070 can offer the same mining efficiency as its older brethren, then it could be the best choice for miners, as has been the case with previous mid-range Nvidia graphics cards. Actually, this is what we will try to find out and evaluate the RTX 4070 video card as a tool for cryptocurrency mining, and not a gaming solution.

All HashAltCoin FPGAs Get Support for the kHeavyHash Algorithm

hash altcoin blackminer kaspa HashAltcoin produced FPGA (programmable) miners under the Blackminer brand, which were popular and brought good income at the peak of cryptocurrency prices in 2021. The company recently breathed new life into its products by releasing a new firmware with support for the kHeavyHash mining algorithm, which makes it possible to mine Kaspa cryptocurrency on FPGA miners Blackminer F1, F1+, F1 Mini, F1 Mini+, F1 Ultra, F2.

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