Antminer becomes the preferred model for large-scale Bitcoin mining farms

As the price of Bitcoin continues to soar, Bitcoin, as a valuable electronic currency, is attracting more and more people's attention. More and more people are paying attention to and investing in Bitcoin, and more and more people are buying Bitcoin mining machines to participate in mining and obtain lucrative profits. The Bitcoin mining industry has entered an unprecedented white-hot stage. The computing power has increased significantly, and miners have higher requirements for the performance and deployment of mining equipment. The mining industry has gradually turned to a large-scale trend and entered the era of large mines.

In the early days, miners still relied on CPUs and graphics cards for mining. In recent years, with the substantial growth in computing power, these devices are no longer sufficient to support and satisfy miners' desire for Bitcoin. Therefore, professional Bitcoin mining machines emerged. Bitcoin mining machines are special customized computers whose cores are composed of large-scale ASIC integrated circuits, which are specialized in hash algorithm calculations. Nowadays, home-based mining can no longer meet the needs of miners with sufficient power resources and funds. In 2014, a small number of miners chose large-scale mining farms. With the rapid increase in computing power, large-scale mining farms around the world have gradually increased, and the number of deployed mining machines can be counted in hundreds of thousands. Large-scale deployment not only has the advantage of computing power, but also reduces the comprehensive costs such as management, which can enable miners to obtain greater benefits.

It is reported that building a large-scale mining farm is not a simple matter, and there are many factors to consider. First of all, the site selection of the mining farm mainly considers factors such as rent, cheap and stable electricity, network, heat dissipation, and distance from the mining machine production site. Secondly, there are details that need to be considered in the construction of the mining farm, as well as the centralized management of the mining farm, daily maintenance of the mining machine, troubleshooting and other work. This also requires a lot of manpower to support. Of course, the most important point is the choice of mining machines. The computing power, power consumption, volume, heat dissipation, maintainability, cost performance, procurement timing, etc. of the mining machine are factors that must be considered. Judging from the current market situation, there are not many mining machine brands to choose from. The only one that meets the above requirements is the Antminer mining machine series products launched by Bitmain. According to the official introduction, the latest model of the Antminer is S5, with a computing power of up to 1155G and a wall power consumption of only 590W. Compared with other mining machine products, Bitmain has once again innovated its chip and product technology-the use of the 28nm process BM1384 chip on the Ant S5 has greatly improved the mining speed. In addition, the Ant Bitcoin Miner S5 has many surprising improvements in technology, such as a series power supply solution, a new cooling method, shared mining machine control rights (MinerLink), etc. It also provides deployment solutions and management monitoring systems for large-scale deployment, greatly reducing management costs.

The Antminer products launched by Bitmain have been highly acclaimed by the industry for their low power consumption, high efficiency and extreme stability. According to Li Yingfei, head of Bitmain's marketing, more than 70% of the large-scale mining farms in China currently deploy Antminers.