Wednesday, January 08, 2014

These Are the Brains of the Next Bitcoin Mining Monster

Source: http://gizmodo.com/these-are-the-brains-of-the-next-bitcoin-mining-monster-1497423425

These Are the Brains of the Next Bitcoin Mining Monster

In just a few short years, bitcoin mining has come a long way, from CPUs, to GPUs, to specialized, single purpose, system-on-a-chip beasts. There's still progress to be made, though, more efficient mining marvels to build. This is that progress. Meet the (prototype) brains of an insane digital drill.