Mining


Marchés

Inside Butterfly Labs: The ASIC bitcoin mining arms race

CoinDesk visits Butterfly Labs and looks at the factors involved in the bitcoin mining arms race.

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Marchés

Discount code and Primecoin mining enthusiasm cause cloud server overload

Miners of Primecoin, a new digital currency, caused DigitalOcean, a cloud server provider, to restrict sign ups.

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Marchés

Inside Butterfly Labs: The challenges of producing bitcoin mining hardware

CoinDesk visits Butterfly Labs and reports on how they've managed customer expectations and why they don't mine themselves.

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Marchés

Bitcoin developer Jeff Garzik on altcoins, ASICs and bitcoin usability

Jeff Garzik, one of Bitcoin's core developers, shares his thoughts on alternative currencies, ASIC miners, and bitcoin usability.

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Technologies

New company Krater offers rigs built with Avalon ASICs either from its stock or yours

Krater is offering a clone of the Avalon ASIC mining rig that contains up to 320 chips.

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Marchés

Bitcoin ASIC builder Terrahash changes refund policy and refuses customer

Terrahash has changed its refund policy. The company's FAQ has been updated to say that all orders are final.

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Technologies

A look inside KnCMiner, bitcoin mining's dark horse

KnCMiner just increased the performance spec of its ASIC mining rigs. They're late to the party, but will they be strong enough to trounce the competition?

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Marchés

Raspberry Pi used as Block Erupter controller for bitcoin mining

Raspberry Pi can be used as an ASIC miner controller, with the help of a Block Erupter.

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Marchés

KnCMiner readies ASIC customer list

Over the next few days, KnCMiner will be informing several hundred lucky customers who is to get its ASIC miner units first.

KnCMiner readies ASIC customer list

Marchés

First of Butterfly Lab's BitForce 500 GH/s mining rigs seen in operation

The first of Butterfly Lab's BitForce 500 GH/s has been seen in operation.

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