Working Avalon ASIC Confirmed, Hashing At 68 GH/s
Photo 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 announced that they had shipped their ASICs out to customers one and a half weeks ago, many continued to doubt Avalon's claims, but now the Bitcoin....
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