Antminer's New R4 Model Designed to Be Used in Homes, Decrease Centralization
Once upon a time, at the beginning of Bitcoin’s history, it was possible to mine bitcoin at home using a PC’s CPU. Later, miners had to switch to GPUs, then to ASICs and then to more and more sophisticated bitcoin mining equipment. Today, most mining is done in specialized mining farms, operated by a few large players that invest substantial money in....
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Beijing based Bitmain Technologies Limited, owner of Antminer series of Bitcoin miners, Hashnest, Antpool and BTC.com will next week launch what it claims to be the world’s most silent multi-terahash Bitcoin miner, and a silent 2600W PSU specially designed for high performance mining. This model is called the ‘Antminer R4’. Basic description. Antminer R4 is said to use the very power efficient 16nm BM1387 ASIC chip for Bitcoin mining and can deliver a hashrate of 8.6TH/s with a power efficiency of 0.1J/GH and a noise level less than 50dB. Bitmain also claims that at an ambient temperature....
There will only be a limited quantity available for every batch of Antminer S9 miners, and interested parties are advised to place their order as soon as possible. Bitmain remains one of the market leaders in the Bitcoin mining hardware manufacturer space. The company has unveiled their Antminer S9; a device Bitcoin enthusiasts have been looking forward to for quite some time now. The Antminer S9 Is Here. Bitcoin miners have been waiting for news from Bitmain for quite some time now. Ever since the Antminer S7 was released, it appeared as if no new model was coming anytime soon. But lo and....
Bitmain Technologies Limited, the Beijing-based owner of the Antminer series of bitcoin miners, Hashnest, Antpool and BTC.com, will launch what it calls the world’s most silent multi-terahash bitcoin miner and a silent 2600W PSU designed for high-performance bitcoin mining. With these new products, Bitmain seeks to bring bitcoin mining back to homes and continue decentralizing the bitcoin mining network. Most Power Efficient Chip. The Antminer R4 uses a 16nm BM1387 ASIC chip, which it considers the world’s most power-efficient chip for bitcoin mining. The chip can deliver a hashrate of....
Antminer S4. Bitmain released the AntMiner S4 recently amid much speculation and the simultaneous release of their HashNest cloud mining service. The S4 is much like the AntMiner S2 in that it is housed in a 3U rack mountable chassis. The AntMiner S4 is a 2 th/s Bitcoin miner that uses the BM1382 chip. Bitmain gets an improvement on the gh/s to watt ratio. Power efficiency is one of the most important things to consider when buying Bitcoin or other Cryptocurrency miners. The faster they are at the lowest power ratio, the better. The Antminer S4 ships now... which is another thing to....
The launch of Antminer S7, the next generation bitcoin miner, was just announced by bitcoin mining ASIC provider Bitmain. According to the company, "this machine is not only our most efficient ever, using less than half the energy per gigahash of the S5, but it is also our most powerful miner to enter mass production." Compared to the previous model, the Antminer S7 bitcoin miner is a denser mining rig. The S5 used 60 chips per miner while the Antminer S7 uses 162 of the BM1385 chips. Next Generation Bitcoin Miner. "It's true that the S5+ had a greater overall hashrate, but the S7 squeezes....