SETI@home Project Enables Bitcoin ASIC Miner Hardware Support

SETI@home, started in 1999, is one of the first crowd-source citizen science project. This citizen science endeavor is dedicated to finding candidate signals from alien intelligences, which is a project with a really huge potential payoff if successful. You can now support the project with a Bitcoin donation. SETI@home searches for possible evidence of radio transmissions from extraterrestrial intelligence using observational data from the Arecibo radio telescope. The data are taken while the telescope is used for other scientific programs, then sent to the SETI@home facility. The data are....

Why do ASIC mining hardware manufacturers give their products names like Klondike and GoldStrike? It's because bitcoin mining is like a gold rush. People are rushing to stake a claim to a limited resource, and they need the best equipment that they can to mine it. After GPUs and FPGAs, the rush is on to produce ASIC-based miners that are faster and more power efficient than their predecessors. The market is flooded with vendors promising the next, greatest ASIC hardware. But all that glitters is not gold. Here is a roundup of what's on offer (and what's actually shipping, which isn't....

Bitmain, which specializes in custom mining chips and miners, has come under increased scrutiny due to the Chinese firm’s control over the production of so much bitcoin hardware and hashing power. Some bitcoin participants are beginning to fear a negative outcome for bitcoin with so few producers of the digital currency’s mining hardware. In 2013,....

As we are all aware of, if you want to keep on mining in the Bitcoin universe, you'll need an ASIC miner sooner or later, if you want to be profitable that is. We've been through a passage of USB ASIC miners (the Block Erupters) which are now rapidly declining in price. It has recently come to my attention that there are 2 new ASIC's announced, which are supposedly in stock. That is something you don't see too often (but it has happened before). So let's take a look at these two new Bitcoin ASIC's, shall we? First up, we have the Red Fury USB miner. Yes, that's right, a new USB miner.....

Baikal miner has recently updated their X11 miners to support multiple algorithms. The new algorithms, along with X11, are X13, X14, X15, Quark and Qubit. The additional algorithms are an interesting update to their miners. We were able to speak with Baikal about the upgraded miners and more. Baikal on Updated X11 Miners. Could you tell me a bit about Baikal, not much is known? Thanks in advance for giving a great chance to introduce Baikal reputably through your interview. We have been developing the total solution of the miner from 2013 and also have several success stories about Scrypt....