THELOGICALINDIAN - Bitmain Technologies Inc said Monday that Nasdaqlisted Riot Blockchain is affairs 8000 of its Antminer S19 Pro bitcoin miners in a accord account 177 million
In a blog post, the Chinese crypto mining accouterments maker declared that the machines will be delivered in batches of 2,000 over four beeline months starting January 2021.
“We are animated to abide and aggrandize our cooperation with Riot. Riot is a abiding acquaintance of ours, and we accept witnessed and assisted them in architecture up a able mining operation in North America,” said Irene Gao, Bitmain’s Antminer sales administrator of NCSA Region.
“We accept this new acquirement advice will Riot aggrandize a arch position in the bazaar and accomplish their business vision, which we are added than blessed to be and abide actuality allotment of,” she added.
The Antminer 19 alternation uses the latest bearing of SHA256 Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) from Bitmain, authoritative it added energy-efficient compared to antecedent models from the Beijing-based entity.
Specifically, the Antminer S19 Pro, which was appear beforehand this year, comes with a hashrate of 110 terahash per additional (TH/s) and a ability ability of 29.5 joules per terahash (J/TH). At a amount of $2,407, the miner is not decidedly bargain compared to added aggressive machines aural its range.
However, the S19 Pro is the best assisting bitcoin miner on the bazaar currently, breeding up to $5.79 of accumulation anniversary day, according to data from F2pool, a all-around BTC mining network. Microbt’s Whatsminer M30S , which boasts a hashrate of 112 TH/s and ability ability of 31 J/TH, rakes in a circadian accumulation of $5.70.
Jeff McGonegal, arch controlling of Riot Blockchain, said that the new Antminer units will advice the Colorado-based aggregation ability its hashrate ambition of 1.45 exahash per additional (EH/s) on 47 megawatts of electricity “by aboriginal 2024.”
“…Sourcing accouterments can be awfully arduous during the accepted communicable and in this bread-and-butter climate. Bitmain provided us with aberrant account in a aisle appear accomplishing our ambition and because of their able-bodied accumulation alternation we are appointed to beat it,” he said.
Riot Blockchain currently operates added than 15,000 Bitmain bitcoin miners, including the beforehand Antminer S17 Pro machines. Its adjustment follows addition by Marathon Patent Group beforehand this month, which is purchasing $23 actor account of the S19 Pro BTC miner from Bitmain. Addition U.S. firm, Core Scientific bought 17,600 machines from the Chinese aggregation in June.
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