Alpha Technology Announces New 'Back to Basics' Viper Miner Specs
British ASIC designer Alpha Technology has revised the spec for its upcoming Viper scrypt miner, promising a significant speed boost, but also dropping a few features in the process. The hashing power gains are significant: Alpha had originally promised 5 MH/s and 25 MH/s units, but earlier this year it revised those figures to 16 MH/s and 90 MH/s respectively. Now it is promising to deliver 50 MH/s and 250 MH/s - 10 times the original rates. The company says the decision was made after long consideration and lengthy negotiations with its partners, coupled with strong competition in the....
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Alpha Viper circuit board. Alpha Technology has confirmed that shipments of its Viper Scrypt miner will suffer delays of up to a month. The company had previously planned to ship the 'batch one' units in September, but now says the date has been moved to October. "We are confident that we will be shipping in the latter half of October 2014, provided everything goes as planned," director Mohammad Akram told CoinDesk, explaining: "We are doing our best to ensure our customers receive the highest quality of product, which is performing at, if not better the advertised hash rates and power....
September is here, bringing cold air to many parts of the world that play home to bitcoin mines on both the hobby and industrial scale. If you're a home rig operator, you're no doubt looking forward to the day when you can turn down the air conditioning and let some of that cool fall air inside. This week's roundup takes a look at several corners of the mining community, from inside the new rig of a solar power-producing hobbyist to inside Bitmain's manufacturing facility. Alpha Technology releases update on Viper. The long-awaited Viper scrypt miner has reportedly moved closer to....
Alpha Technology was working towards shipping their Viper units by the end of July, but due to technical issues, they had to go through a second-tape-out process, thus delaying the shipments. They waited until July 28th to tell customers about this little surprise, distancing themselves from their claim of being transparent. Their news even went so far as to "remind" all of their customers that they upgraded their devices from 25MH/s to 250MH/s back in May. Even though PayPal did what PayPal does best, and locked Alpha Technology's funds, Alpha Technology was still able to fund the second....
Bitcoin payment processing company BitPay recently terminated its association with controversial mining equipment manufacturers Alpha Technology after receiving a series of complaints from their customers. The US-based mining company started to take pre-orders for their ASIC mining machines - Viper Miner 5MH/s and 25MH/s - in early January last year. Despite failing to meet the delivery deadlines in October, Alpha Technology continued to take money from customers by introducing other products, among which some were rumored to have their self-developed chips. To cut the long story short, no....
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....