THELOGICALINDIAN - Ethereum miners no best charge to anguish about Antminer E3s obsolescence advancing abutting ages as Bitmain has appear a firmware amend beforehand today
Antminer E3 Was About to Become Useless at Mining Ethereum
On Monday, Beijing-based mining accessories architect Bitmain announced that it had adapted the firmware of the Antminer E3. This will acquiesce Ethereum miners to abide application the apparatus after actuality abashed of its obsolescence.
Bitmain acicular to contempo media reports, according to which the equipment, which was advised accurately for mining Ethereum and Ethereum Classic, will stop actuality accordant by abutting month.
The allegations were based on assortment amount achievement projections fabricated by altcoin mining basin abettor 2Miners. The miner fatigued that the contempo abatement in the assortment amount achievement of the accessories would accomplish it anachronistic by April.
In a blog column appear at the end of February, 2Miners presented its “disappointing” conclusions. The miner said that the Antminer E3 had already chock-full mining ETC.
When it addressed a appeal to Bitmain, the Chinese aggregation replied:
Bitmain’s New Firmware Update Extends E3 Life to October
It took beneath than 3 weeks for Bitmain to fix the affair and amend the Ethereum mining firmware. While this amend ensures Ethereum miners can abide application the Antminer E3 afterwards April, it is not bright how continued it will last. The aggregation said that the final block acme of the E3 is 11,400,000, which agency mining can abide until October 2024.
The new firmware anchored the affair of advance of directed acyclic blueprint (DAG) files, which narrowed the adequacy of the accessories to miner ETH or ETC. This has been accomplished by accretion the acceptance of Double Date Rate (DDR) Memory, as added amplitude is appropriate to action DAG files.
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