Scrypt Mining ASICs Spotted In The Wild: Introducing Dualminer USB Miner
The image above is a new USB miner similar to the ASICMiner's Block Erupters. The price tag is $98, with bulk discounts typical of Chinese manufacturers, for dual mining capabilities. This bad boy can mine Bitcoin and Litecoin at the same time! The device offers 60 khash/s for a total energy usage of around 4 watts. A total of 10 dualminer USB miners would run a total of $921.20 and net in 600 khash/s for 40 watts, compared with an HD 7950 that costs $300 and also produces 600 khash/s but using closer to 250 watts. The energy savings could potentially add up over the course of a year and....
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Gridseed Blade. Gridseed started the Scrypt ASIC miner race with its first foray into the market with the DualMiner. The DualMiner is a single chip USB miner that performed at 70 kh/s in Scrypt only mode. Gridseed quickly followed it up with the 5 Chip Orb which ran at 360 kh/s Scrypt only. As everyone was buying the Orbs at a speedy rate, they introduced the Blade. I had the opportunity to test and review the Blade Scrypt miner thanks to GAWMiners with the assistance of Holy Scott from HolyBitcoin. Specifications. The specifications are solid. -There are 2 PCB Panels in each Miner. -Each....
With the scrypt mining world dominated by GPUs (Graphic Processing Units), a surprising but long-awaited addition is coming - ASICs. ASICs, application-specific integrated circuits, are much more efficient in mining currencies, being much smaller, running at lower temperatures, and requiring less electricity for much higher hash rates. But how viable are would scrypt ASICs be, and just which companies would you trust with your money in pre-orders? Many people might recall the way Butterfly Labs handled shipments, causing mighty long delays, affecting a miner's profit as the difficulty only....
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Scrypt ASIC Race Towards The Bottom. KnCMiner has promised 250 MH/s for 1000W. This morning, Mining ASICs Technologies (MAT) posted a press release to their website. In it, they announced that their Excalibur 1 (100 MH/s) and their Excalibur 2 (200 MH/s) would be upgraded to Excalibur 3 (125 MH/s) and Excalibur 4 (250 MH/s), respectively. This free upgrade comes on the heels of an eventful week in the competitive world of Scrypt ASIC Mining hardware manufacturing and design. Originally slated for September release, MAT is now confident that their Scrypt ASICs might even start shipping in....