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First Bitcoin ASIC, Delivered to Core Bitcoin Developer

39 points| mrb | 13 years ago |bitcointalk.org | reply

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[+] mrb|13 years ago|reply
Picture of the inside: http://garzikrants.blogspot.com/2013/01/avalon-modular-room-...

I hope this will put a stop to most of the non-believers constantly trolling on bitcointalk.org

[+] gibybo|13 years ago|reply
I prefer the term skeptic, and I think it's quite reasonable to be skeptical of a $1300 device capable of generating $210/day with still no proof. I think the skeptics will be much calmer once he plugs it in and verifies that it does what it says it does.

EDIT: Now confirmed on Jeff's blog: http://garzikrants.blogspot.com/2013/01/avalon-its-alive.htm...

[+] c16|13 years ago|reply
What are the specs for someone who doesn't really follow the whole BitCoin thing?
[+] mrb|13 years ago|reply
66 GHash/sec. Or about the same as a cluster of 110 AMD Radeon HD 7970 cards!

Right now, 66 GHash/sec generates about $210/day (11 bitcoins/day).

[+] dsl|13 years ago|reply
Bitcoin Mining is measured in hashes per second. This box is 60GH/s for $1,299.

Deepbit, one of the more popular pools (teams that split profits) is currently doing 1.9 TH/s and accounts for roughly 17% of all mining operations.

So you are buying a single device capable of approximately .5% of the output of everyone else combined.

[+] wmf|13 years ago|reply
66 gigahashes per second (GH/s) for ~440 W; that's ~160 MH/J compared to ~0.7 GH/s and ~2.4 MH/J for the best GPUs. I hope that math is right.
[+] DanBC|13 years ago|reply
I hope someone somewhere is documenting all the Bitcoin farming hardware.

The future people would probably like a nice list of things that people are trying. Bitcoin mining (and to a lesser extent Folding@home) are entry level clustering for hobbyists.

[+] alwaysinshade|13 years ago|reply
>I hope someone somewhere is documenting all the Bitcoin farming hardware.

>The future people would probably like a nice list of things that people are trying.

I can imagine future "coin" collectors gathering the ancient application-specific hardware that was used to mine bitcoins. "And here we have a 2013-era bitcoin ASIC...quite quaint really. I'd imagine she might be worth around...600 pounds?"