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Evaluation on BITMAIN’s GPU Miner Antminer G2

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The encrypted cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Litecoin and Dash can be mined with ASIC miners. However, due to different algorithm settings, some currencies such as Ethereum and ZEC need to be mined with GPU miners currently.

Nowadays, AMD and Nvidia are the two types of graphics cards which are most commonly used for mining. The miner with 8 AMD graphics cards to be introduced today is Antminer G2 produced by BITMAIN, the well-known cryptocurrency ASIC miner manufacturer. Now, let’s have a look at the performance of Antminer G2!

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Tutorial: Antminer A3 BLAKE2b ASIC Miner for Siacoin Mining

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This tutorial is intended for the Antminer A3 BLAKE2b ASIC Miner for Siacoin Mining which is a BLAKE2 miner manufactured by BITMAIN. BLAKE2 is a cryptographic hash function faster than MD5, SHA-1, SHA-2, and SHA-3, yet is at least as secure as the latest standard SHA-3. BLAKE2 has been adopted by many projects due to its high speed, security, and simplicity. The Antminer A3 supports all the crypto coins based on the BLAKE2b algorithm, such as Siacoin.
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