Butterfly Labs Unveils 600 GH/s Bitcoin Miner

Butterfly Labs Unveils 600 GH/s Bitcoin Miner

Butterfly Labs, makers of specialty Bitcoin-mining machines, just announced the Butterfly Labs Monarch, an insanely powerful new ASIC at CES 2014. This machine can mine at a whopping 600 GH/s while using 350 W of power. Despite it's hefty $2196 price tag, BFL claims that the Monarch is cheaper and more efficient than its competition. Gadget blog Gizmodo has some great images of the insides of the Monarch as well as a water cooling system prototype. While this is all really impressive, Butterfly Labs has come under fire in the past for taking several months to deliver products with very....


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