Avalon Ships Bitcoin’s First Consumer ASICs #bitcoin

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Avalon Ships Bitcoin’s First Consumer ASICs #bitcoin

Configuring the machine will be possible either through SSH or a dedicated web interface, allowing users to easily set it up to mine with their preferred mining pool. Solo mining, however, is harder. Unlike pooled mining, where the miner receives the block headers needed by the mining algorithm directly, a solo miner needs to have an instance of bitcoind running locally or connected to the machine, which also requires storing the entire 6 GB Bitcoin blockchain. There are two ways to get around the issue. First, one can run an instance of bitcoind on a separate PC and configure the Avalon machine to work with it just as easily as one would a mining pool. Alternatively, there is also the option of running bitcoind on the machine directly, but that would require a USB flash drive to store the blockchain, as well as some special configuration to make bitcoind available on open...

Full article: http://bitcoinmagazine.com/avalon-ships-bitcoins-first-co...

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@artkiver » 14 Feb '13, 10am
Wow asic bitcoin miners are shipping & being compared by power consumption per hash: [link] the future economy is mindful.
@RKHilbertSpace » 08 Feb '13, 9pm
Avalon Ships Bitcoin’s First Consumer ASICs [link] asics have been in use for a while, but not sold to end-users until now
@CryptoCurrent » 24 Jan '13, 8pm
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@LibertyWatchr » 23 Jan '13, 1am
#bitcoin is getting so big companies are now making dedicated hardware just to serve the currency. - [link]
@BitCoinReporter » 22 Jan '13, 10pm
Avalon Ships First Consumer ASICs (+ interview with Yifu Guo) | Bitcoin Magazine [link] #bitcoin
@nexusakachus » 22 Jan '13, 8pm
Finally Avalon Ships Bitcoin’s First Consumer ASICs :) Welcome to the future [link]
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Avalon Ships Bitcoin’s First Consumer ASICs [link] #bitcoin