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Bitcoin miner supplier Bitmain has released its brand-new Antminer T21, featuring a computing powerfulness of 190 TH/s and an vigor ratio ratio of 19 J/TH.
Bitmain, a large planetary shaper of Bitcoin (BTC) application-specific integrated circuits (ASIC), has officially released its caller air-cooled BTC miner, Antminer T21.
Bitmain took to Twitter connected Oct. 26 to announce the satellite premiere of the caller Antminer T21, the firm’s caller air-cooling miner that tin withstand ambient temperatures up to 45 degrees Celsius.
According to Bitmain’s caput of marketing, Xmei Lin, the Antminer T21’s planetary merchandise happened astatine the Blockchain Life 2023 Forum successful Dubai, wherever Bitmain was a “diamond sponsor.”
Bitmain’s brand-new mining instrumentality is expected to start shipping successful January 2024, the company’s spokesperson told Cointelegraph. The air-cooling miner supports the SHA256 mining algorithm utilized for mining proof-of-work (PoW) cryptocurrencies similar Bitcoin, arsenic good arsenic forked coins similar Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Bitcoin SV (BSV). The T21 provides a computing powerfulness of 190 terahashes per 2nd and an vigor ratio ratio of 19 joules per terahash.
Bitcoin Antminer T21. Source: BitmainAt the event, Bitmain besides offered Antminer T21 buyers an accidental to get Bitmain’s terms extortion plan, which is designed to enactment miners successful lawsuit of a diminution successful cryptocurrency prices. Available until Nov. 25, 2023, the program allows customers to beryllium protected against the downside fluctuation of BTC terms for a play of 1 month, 3 months, oregon six months.
Customers volition get compensation successful currency if the BTC terms falls beneath the onslaught for immoderate notation time wrong the protected period, the steadfast said, adding that compensation shall beryllium paid “immediately upon the triggering event.”
Bitmain’s fluctuation extortion plan. Source: X (formerly Twitter)Antminer T21 is 1 of Bitmain’s respective mining devices, produced alongside a wide diverseness of ASIC miners by different firms similar Canaan, MicroBT, Bitfury and others.
Chinese Canaan (formerly known arsenic Avalon) was among the archetypal firms successful the satellite to release a Bitcoin mining ASIC successful January 2013, which enabled consumers to excavation cryptocurrency connected a wide standard owed to a important boost successful hashing powerfulness compared to GPU and CPU setups.
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Ten years aft releasing its archetypal mining device, Canaan is inactive astir with caller mining machines. In mid-September, Canaan officially released its caller A14 bid miners connected its 10th anniversary. On Oct. 26, Canaan launched its sustainability-focused A1466 and A1466I miners successful the Middle East. The caller miners diagnostic liquid-cooled and air-cooled options.
Despite firms similar Canaan and Bitmain rushing to present caller mining devices, the ASIC manufacture has seen immoderate challenges successful caller years. As antecedently reported by Cointelegraph, ASIC miners’ terms per terahash plummeted much than 80% from its highest successful 2021 arsenic of precocious 2022 amid caller miners continuing to flood the market.
In August 2023, blockchain exertion steadfast Blockstream was seeking to rise $50 cardinal to purchase and store mining instrumentality connected secondary markets successful anticipation of the Bitcoin halving successful 2024.
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