SoftBank Denies Investing in Pre-IPO Bitmain
A SoftBank official has made clear that neither the SoftBank Group Corporation or the SoftBank Vision Fund were involved with Bitmain.
- Aditya Worah
- Aug 19, 2018
Cryptocurrency Mining is used to generate minable cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc. Mining requires immense energy and manpower to solve complex algorithms. People who set up systems to perform mining activity are called miners. Miners are rewarded with some share of the cryptocurrency on successfully mining a block.
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A SoftBank official has made clear that neither the SoftBank Group Corporation or the SoftBank Vision Fund were involved with Bitmain.
Bitmain’s latest innovation is the introduction of cryptocurrency mining routers. The two Bitmain routers have been named Antrouter R3-DASH and Antrouter R3-SIA.
Canaan announced the release of their 7-nanometer (7 nm) cryptocurrency mining chips in the 30T Avalonminer A9 Bitcoin Miner.
Bitmain has now been planning to launch an Initial Public Offering (IPO). Reportedly, investment giants Tencent and SoftBank are backing this idea.
The construction and set-up of this new facility are underway, and Bitmain estimates this phase will finish early in the fourth quarter of 2018, with the data center initiation in early 2019.
The TV set called AvalonMiner Inside set has a hash rate (computing rate) of 2.8 trillion hashes per second whereas the most powerful mining hardware my Canaan has a hash rate of 11 trillion hashes per second.
Latest reports indicate that Bitmain, which made $1.1 Billion in the first quarter of this financial year, is all set to file for an IPO shortly.
Change.org has created a cryptocurrency mining screensaver, which will mine for Monero (XMR) to fund the Change.org Foundation while your PC is idle.
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Kosovo has cheap electricity and the cryptocurrency mining costs are half of that of the market. Hence it is becoming a mining hub .