Antminer A3 – DIGIT INFO

Sia Devs Won’t Prevent Bitmain’s A3 Devices from Mining

DIGIT — Sat, 27 Jan 2018 18:19:07 +0000

Multiple Sia community members were concerned about Bitmain’s new ASIC miner. The company suddenly announced the A3, which is designed specifically for mining Siacoin. There were some brief discussions about possibly introducing a Sia fork which would disallow the ASIC hardware from impacting the network. It seems those plans have now been dismissed and nothing will happen to prevent the use of ASIC miners on the network. No Sia Fork to Prevent ASIC Mining It is evident the introduction of ASIC mining hardware specifically for Sia would have some interesting consequences. After all, these machines are a lot more powerful

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Bitmain Unveils the Antminer A3 ASIC Miner for Siacoin

DIGIT — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 17:19:50 +0000

In the world of cryptocurrency mining, ASIC hardware is in high demand. Although many people would associate this type of hardware with Bitcoin or Litecoin mining, there are devices suited for other currencies as well. More specifically, Bitmain has announced the Antminer A3, which is designed specifically for the Blake (2b) algorithm. So far, there is only one (major) currency which uses this algorithm. Fans of Siacoin will be pleased to hear that this device exists. A New Siacoin ASIC Miner It is always good to see mining hardware manufacturers look beyond Bitcoin and the top cryptocurrencies. There is plenty

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