ASIC-equipped machines compatible with the virtual currency "Ethernet" will appear, will it stop the graphic board exhaustion due to mining?

The world's largest mining affiliate headquartered in Beijing, China "Bitmain", A mining machine corresponding to the virtual currency" Ethereum (Ethemium) "" EthereumClassic (Earlyam Classic) "Antminer E3We announced. For Antminer E3ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit)It is said that more efficient mining is possible than with machines using conventional GPUs.

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The virtual currency's affiliate is regarded as a strong virtual currency to replace Bitcoin, and the market price has soared since the beginning of 2017. Many virtual currencies such as Ethernet and Bitcoin (bit coin) can be obtained not only by purchasing but also mining by PC.

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In order to efficiently mining on a PC, high calculation processing capacity is required, so high performance graphic boards originally developed for games are diverted to mining,It is happening that the market price of graphic boards has soared and gamers are getting harder to get in. However, mining machines using GPUs also cost a lot of electricity bills and other maintenance costs. Therefore, as mining difficulty got higher, even if you prepared a high-performance mining machine with the latest graphic board inserted, it was difficult to gain profit efficiently.

Antminer E3 announced by Bitmain this time is a mining machine incorporating an ASIC designed for the algorithm "Ethash". The power consumption of Antminer E3 is 800 watts, and the hash rate is 180 mega Hash per second.


It is said that six NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti will be required to obtain computational capacity equivalent to that of Antminer E3 using GPU. If you actually include the power supply, it will cost $ 6000 as of April 2018 ( About 640,000 yen) will be exceeded. However, the anticipated price of Antminer E3 is 800 dollars (about 85,000 yen), which is much cheaper than comparable GPU machine. With the introduction of ASIC machines with high cost performance, if demand for graphic boards in the mining industry decreases, it is expected that minor graphic board buying can be suppressed.

On the other hand, however, Piper Merriam, developer of the company, announced on March 30, 2018GitHubOn the above, 96% of people agree with the proposal "I should make large specification changes to Ethash in order to invalidate the mining of the Ethernet by ASIC".


Also, Mr. Vlad Zamfia who is also involved in development is on TwitterSimilar questionnaire, 57% of people voted for approval. The reason why two developers did a questionnaire is to say "Because I would like to hear the opinions of users", but with the advent of ASIC machines, the mining of the virtual currency can not keep up with home PCs, companies with funds And the centralization of the virtual currency that is monopolized by the organization is regarded as a problem.

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