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ASIC for mining bitcoins. General view

Asic miner is inherently a thin plate of a chip or a device for mining bitcoins. Such an electronic micro-device is made on a semiconductor substrate - a plate or film, and the main purpose is computational operations. The solution of specific tasks allows such special equipment, which can not be reflashed, to perform high hashed performance (a conventional unit for measuring the productivity of equipment for "mining" crypto currency), which leads to the implementation of the algorithm of a set of transactions and random numbers, faster and cheaper.

ASIC - short for application-specific integrated circuit. An example of an asik can be mobile phones, processors, signal devices. Those. such a chip is only stitched to solve a specific problem.
When ASIC appeared, the business mining ("mining") of Bitcoin became much more profitable than using video cards, because before access to the open market for special equipment for the production of crypto-currencies, Internet users earned making by mining through video cards. However, video cards, as the main source of income, become unprofitable, and the costs of this way of extracting money at times increase energy consumption. And, by the way, the cost of video cards has grown significantly when it became clear that video cards are not bought for video signal processing, but for mining.



At high speed of hash calculation, single-chip systems consume less energy. The microcircuit, using intelligent analysis, adds new blocks to the chain of already built blocks of block, so it is difficult to change the transaction log and rigidly predetermined its functions. At the moment, there are more than 100 known modern ASICs, single-chip systems, which consist of processors (32 bits, 64 bits), large blocks of memory and even several cores. If the processor does a lot of operations, the video adapter will slowly switch to solving the algorithms and new tasks.

The main disadvantage of business mining is the constantly increasing complexity of extracting Internet money. This complication is embedded in the "mining" algorithm and it can not be changed). Following the rapid emergence of equipment for mining, new algorithms are formed that are protected from mining, but for a short time. Resale ASIC is unprofitable because of the rapid change in the model range. Those. "Spent" asik bitcoin you will not sell, it's out of date and nobody needs it. However, to the miner, it is desirable to report your hashing addresses to friends who can pay to him or vice versa. This interaction is similar to sending emails by email, but only the bit-address can be used only once. The assimilation and assembly of the so-called tranche mining farms, unfortunately, is dependent on various indicators. This is what the farm looks like on the ashki. The presence in the system of various equipment manufacturers, and their seriality, can lead to conflict and loss of stability of the farm.


The lack of speed, assembly and assembly time, software upgrades and a large number of components make the transportation of farms difficult. There are many calculators for mining (for example, bitmakler), which take into account not only the rate of crypto currency and the speed of the farm, but also other parameters. It should be taken into account that a high load can adversely affect the production rate of the crypto currency, while filling all available memory, which will significantly reduce the speed of mining or entail a large number of errors and failure of algorithms.

However, if you still purchased ASIC, then installing the hardware will not take long. It is only necessary to check the value of the hashtata that will be needed when making transactions. The rapid growth of the hash value will give a greater chance of calculating new transaction blocks. However, such computational processes absorb electricity that costs money. We should make a business plan for mining, to invest in the purchase of equipment, as well as spending resources and time not be in the red.
Of course, it is possible to try to use a computer processor to extract bitcoins, but practice has proved that such mining is very difficult and sometimes meaningless. On the central processor of the computer it was possible to mine at the very beginning of the birth of the crypto-currency, now it is senseless.
To increase the algorithms for solving complex mathematical problems, possibly with the help of high-performance graphics cards, which can be used for mining not only bitocons, but also other crypto-currencies. At present, there will not be much use for video cards either.
At the same time, the adaptive cryptographic function of the Scrypt key generation allows miners who want to switch between different crypto-currencies to do it quietly.

To date, the business of extracting crypto currency is not regulated in any way and taxes are not levied. But the legislation is changing constantly and a completely profitable business can get under the ban or go to a new level.

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