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The Chinese company Bitmain now dominates bitcoin mining. Bernstein estimates that Bitmain earned between $3 billion and $4 billion last year, while chip maker Nvidia made $3 billion in profits during the same period. It is noteworthy that Bitmain achieved such profits in just four years, while Nvidia needed 24, Bernstein analysts note in their report.
Experts say electricity consumption will increase by another 30% next month. The more digital currency “miners” connect to the network, the higher the hashrate is likely to become. Again, everything is decided by one aspect - whether the country can cover its electricity needs.
IBTimes reports that Bitmain is developing Antminer F3, an ASIC miner for Ethereum mining. Production is planned to begin at the end of February, and the device will go on sale approximately in the second or third quarter of this year. As for the price, it will be $2500 - $3000.
The Salon Media Group information portal, in order to compensate for losses from ad blocking, offers its readers the opportunity, instead of viewing ads, to mine cryptocurrency using the unused capacity of their computers.
The Japanese company DMM has opened a large-scale cryptocurrency mining farm where it plans to conduct tours
As DW reports, at the All-Russian Research Institute of Experimental Physics, which is located in the Nizhny Novgorod region, several employees were detained for mining cryptocurrencies on powerful office computers.
In the unrecognized Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, on January 31, the Law “On the Development of Information Blockchain Technologies” was adopted, which officially legalized cryptocurrency mining on its territory.
Samsung, which owns one of the world's largest semiconductor factories, completed the development of ASIC chips last year and has already begun mass production.
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