Questions tagged [asics]
An Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) is an integrated circuit customized for a specific application, rather than being a general-purpose IC.
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Can we get an estimate of how many ETH ASIC's were there before they all migrated to Ethereum classic?
Many of the ETH asic's have migrated to ETC, but how many estimated machines were produced? If we took the hash rate of ETH before the merge and compared it to ETC before the merge and get the ...
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The reason for selling not profitable Antminer through official channel
I am a total newbie into ETH mining, so I may be asking about something obvious.
I have found this Bitmine website where it says that Miner E9 is sold out, but will return to sell in a couple of ...
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Connect Geth Node with my asics
I've looked all over the internet but couldn't find an answer.
So I've installed GETH and it's fully synced on my server. What is the easiest way to connect my asics and start solo mining. Do I need ...
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ASICs versus GPUs in Ethereum mining?
Is there any way to assess the number of blocks being mined in Ethereum by ASICs versus the number of blocks being mined by GPUs percentage-wise?
Karim Helmy designed away to estimate the type of ASIC ...
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What is the point of switching to ProgPOW for ethereum, when POS is coming in the coming year(s)?
With the recent discussion of the new ProgPOW mining switch. What is the point of it when POS is coming in the coming year(s)? I understand it disables the ASIC miners, while benefiting the GPU miners....
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Calculate ROI of ASIC miner
I am trying to understand how to calculate the Earnings over a year for an ASIC Miner.
As an example I picked the Innosilicon A9 ZMaster. It has the following specifications:
These specifications ...
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How will an Antminer F3 even work?
So, there is this rumor about a massive 72GB of ram "ASIC" miner coming up from bitmain specifically to mine Ethereum.
I knew that Ethereum is ASIC resistant, so how would this potential miner even ...
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Why Ethereum is ASIC resistant? [duplicate]
I'm FPGA design engineer, and I'm thinking in learning more about Ethereum to make a FPGA implementation, but I've read in many sites that Ethereum is ASIC resistant but I couldn't find any technical ...
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Is ether mining ASIC resistant? [duplicate]
Should we be expecting china to also capitalize on ether mining until Casper is released in Serenity? Can the developers change the code to move it from the current code to another code base such as ...
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By what mechanism are ASIC-based miners made less favourable?
Bitcoin mining is dominated by miners that use ASIC-based mining equipment, thereby skewing the mining rewards in favour of those able to afford large numbers of ASIC mining rigs.
Ethereum prevents ...
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