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asic Archives - Bitcoin Magazine
Butterfly Labs Ships First Finished ASIC For Review
April 22, 2013 | Vitalik Buterin | 5 CommentsAfter nearly six months of delays, Butterfly Labs has finally released a copy of what appears to be the final version of one of their long-awaited ASIC mining products. Similarly to how Avalon first shipped a sample... Read More ...
Read MoreBitcoin Developer Confirms Butterfly Labs ASIC
April 1, 2013 | Vitalik Buterin | 9 CommentsBitcoin developer Luke Dashjr has confirmed that a prototypes Butterfly Labs ASIC is now hashing. The device is still far from full capacity, pushing out only 25 GH/s at a power consumption of 180 watts, but this is... Read More ...
Read MoreASICMiner Starts Hashing
February 14, 2013 | Vitalik Buterin | 9 CommentsToday, ASICMiner, one of the three major developers of ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit)-based Bitcoin mining hardware, has announced that they have turned on their chips, and are outputting 1.7 TH/s of... Read More ...
Read MoreWorking Avalon ASIC Confirmed, Hashing At 68 GH/s
January 31, 2013 | Vitalik Buterin | 26 CommentsPhoto taken by Jeff Garzik
Jeff Garzik has just received the first ASIC mining computer to hit the consumer market, and has confirmed on Bitcoin IRC that the machine functions as expected. Even after Avalon announce... Read More ...
Read MoreAvalon Ships Bitcoin’s First Consumer ASICs
January 22, 2013 | Vitalik Buterin | 5 CommentsFor the past seven months, application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) have been the central focus of Bitcoin mining development. Ever since Butterfly Labs became the first company to publicly announce its upco... Read More ...
Read MoreASIC Mining Updates: bASIC Hanging On a Thread, Butterfly Delayed to February
January 15, 2013 | Vitalik Buterin | One CommentUpdate: rumors of bASIC’s demise have been, at least for now, grossly exaggerated.
Updates on the Bitcoin ASIC mining scene are coming faster and faster as the shipping dates for all three leading contenders a... Read More ...
Read MoreASIC Mining Updates: ASICMiner Deploying, Butterfly At CES
January 8, 2013 | Vitalik Buterin | 3 CommentsAfter over three months of delays from all major competitors, it seems as though the race to develop the first ASIC-based Bitcoin mining computer is finally drawing to a close. Less than three weeks ago, Avalon ASIC... Read More ...
Read MoreThe Next Year in Bitcoin: What 2013 Has in Store
January 3, 2013 | Vitalik Buterin | 4 Comments2012 has been an exciting year for Bitcoin. We have seen BitPay grow from near-irrelevance to processing transactions for over 2000 merchants around the world, Coinabul expand its gold-selling business from nothing ... Read More ...
Read MoreBlock Reward Halving: A Guide
November 27, 2012 | Vitalik Buterin | 17 Comments Recently, in the media surrounding Bitcoin, you may have heard about an event called the “block reward halving” that will soon be taking place in the Bitcoin network. Projected to take place on Wednesda... Read More ...
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