Block Miners
  • ⭐Introduction
  • 👋Founder's Story
  • ✅Doxxed
  • 💎Mission
  • ⛏️Mining Background
  • ⚡ASIC Miners
  • 📍Mining Location
  • 🚧Barrier To Entry
  • 🤑Validation
  • 🪄NFT Mining
  • 💪Advantages of NFT Mining
  • 🌳Environment
  • 💰Phase 1 - Mint Cost
    • 😍Mining Rewards
    • 💯Revenue Distribution
    • 🔌Electric Costs
  • 👏NFT Staking & Payouts
  • ➡️Beyond Mining
  • 🥇NFT Tiers and Ecosystem Roles
  • 📕Lore
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ASIC Miners

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Last updated 1 year ago

An ASIC (Application-Specific Integrated Circuit) represents a specialized integrated circuit chip meticulously designed for a specific function. In the context of cryptocurrency, an ASIC miner refers to a computerized device solely engineered for the process of "mining" digital currencies.

Typically, each ASIC miner is tailored for the mining of a particular algorithm. For example, an Antminer S21 ASIC miner is exclusively equipped to mine SHA256 currencies like Bitcoin. Conceptually, these Bitcoin ASIC miners can be likened to highly specialised computers optimised specifically for solving the intricate mining algorithm of the Bitcoin network.

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