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Bitcoin Essentials

You're reading from   Bitcoin Essentials Gain insights into Bitcoin, a cryptocurrency and a powerful technology, to optimize your Bitcoin mining techniques

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785281976
Length 130 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Albert Szmigielski Albert Szmigielski
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ASIC versus FPGA, GPU, and CPU mining


As you can see from a comparison between Table 5.1 and Tables 4.1, 3.1, and 2.1, ASICs hash much faster than any other hardware. The fastest in our list almost reaches up to 5500 GH/s. That is a significant improvement over the other hardware. This is due to the massively optimized nature of application-specific microprocessors.

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