ASICs

Bitcoin

KnCMiner Finalizes Design For World’s First 20nm Bitcoin ASIC Miner

KnCMiner says its world-first 20nm ASIC chip should cut power consumption by 43%.

Tech  ·  5 March 2014
Bitcoin

CoinTerra Ships 1,000th Miner, Powers 6% of Bitcoin Network

Over the course of four weeks the company's miners accounted for 1.7 petahash of bitcoin mining performance.

Tech  ·  28 February 2014
Bitcoin

Meet DopaMINE, the Boutique GPU Mining Chassis

With this product, Red Harbinger has created a boutique mining chassis market, but should miners buy one?

Tech  ·  21 February 2014
Bitcoin

Marc Andreessen Predicts Bitcoin Will Change Chip Design Forever

Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Andreessen believes digital currencies will transform the way we design processors.

Tech  ·  4 February 2014
Bitcoin

CoinTerra Battles With Performance Issues and Security Breach

CoinTerra’s TerraMiner IV units are about 20% slower and consume 20% more power than originally promised.

Tech  ·  3 February 2014
Bitcoin

CoinTerra Ships First Terahash Bitcoin Mining Rig

CoinTerra announced today it had finally started shipping its highly anticipated terahash-class TerraMiner IV professional mining rigs.

Tech  ·  28 January 2014
Bitcoin

Bitcloud: We Will Decentralise and Revolutionise the Internet

The Bitcloud team have ambitions to decentralise the Internet, replacing much of the infrastructure we use today.

Business  ·  23 January 2014
Bitcoin

ASIC Manufacturer HashFast Faces Legal Action From Bitcoin Miners

HashFast is facing allegations from customers who placed orders for its missing Baby Jet mining rigs last summer.

Policy & regulation  ·  6 January 2014
Bitcoin

Alpha Technology Takes Pre-Orders for Litecoin ASIC Miners

UK company Alpha Technology says it is now taking pre-orders for the first litecoin ASIC mining devices.

Business  ·  3 January 2014
Bitcoin

Radeon GPUs in Demand as Litecoin Mining Difficulty Increases

ASICs are a no-brainer when it comes to bitcoin, however litecoin is a different story.

Tech  ·  16 December 2013
Bitcoin

Meet China’s Biggest Bitcoin Multi-Millionaire

Li Xiaolai, perhaps the most famous figure in the Chinese bitcoin world recounts his dealings with the cryptocurrency.

Policy & regulation  ·  5 December 2013
UK

UK Bitcoin-Buying Service Bittylicious Adds Feathercoin

Bittylicious, a UK platform that supplies buyers with bitcoins at a premium price, will sell feathercoins in December.

Tech  ·  29 November 2013
Bitcoin

KnCMiner Launches Neptune ASIC Bitcoin Miner With at Least 3TH of Power

Pre-orders for KnCMiner's Neptune ASIC bitcoin miner open today. This could be one of the firm's last retail products.

Tech  ·  26 November 2013
Bitcoin

Alpha Technology Announces ASIC Miners for Litecoin are Coming Soon

Alpha Technologies will start developing purpose-built ASIC mining hardware for Litecoin in partnership with Indian manufacturer Dexcel Designs.

Business  ·  21 November 2013
Bitcoin

Scrypt-based miners and the new cryptocurrency arms race

Script-based miner manufacturers are planning to ship equipment that will speed up altcoin mining.

Tech  ·  23 October 2013