KnCMiner begins shipping of Jupiter bitcoin mining rigs
KnCMiner has finished production of its Jupiter bitcoin mining rigs and has started shipping to customers. The Sweden-based company revealed in a YouTube video that the Jupiter will mine at over 550 GH/s with a theoretical limit of around 576 GH/s, which is considerably higher than the 400 GH/s promised back in July. In the video, KnCMiner co-founders Sam Cole and Marcus Erlandsson show off the Jupiter rig in action and demonstrate its hashing power. "It has been a long summer and to have predicted our own deadline from five months out and hit it with 45 minutes to spare just proves how....
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