A look inside KnCMiner, bitcoin mining's dark horse

A look inside KnCMiner, bitcoin mining's dark horse

Amid the loud grandstanding in the ASIC wars, one quiet player has been keeping its powder dry. KnCMiner, a joint venture between an IT consulting firm and a chip designer, recently opened up preorders for its bitcoin mining products. And this week, it announced increases in the performance specifications for its two units, increasing them to a maximum 200 and 400 Gg/s. Sam Cole, cofounder of the company, explains that it prefers to under promise and over deliver. CoinDesk spoke to him about the company's plans. KnCMiner was conceived in January 2012, when four year-old Swedish IT....


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