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Bitcoin Miners Celebrate 10 Years Since First ASIC

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Bitcoin Miners Celebrate 10 Years Since First ASIC




Jeff Garzik, an early adopter and developer of the BTC core, was reportedly one of the first owners of an ASIC miner, according to Bitcoin miner veteran and educator "TheCoinDad." Canaan, a "world-leading supercomputing solution supplier," introduced this new hardware.

FUN FACT
It’s the 10yr anniversary of Bitcoin ASIC Miners. Jan/Feb 2013 was when @VitalikButerinwith @BitcoinMagazine interviewed @jgarzik with the 1st ever ASIC Miner released to market by @canaanio the Avalon1, and was making 12 Bitcoin a DAY! ðŸ˜±ðŸ’ªðŸ”¥https://t.co/mkKoPR6Hng pic.twitter.com/80JbBQBf3F

— TheCoinDad (@TheCoinDad) February 22, 2023 

The Bitcoin Mining Industry Over a Decade

TheCoinDad pointed out that Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin was among the first to report on the introduction of BTC ASIC miners. Buterin, who is a co-founder of Bitcoin Magazine, spoke with Garzik in February 2013 for the publication. 

Before the introduction of this specialized equipment, Bitcoin miners could make money by employing less potent computers. The Proof-of-Work (PoW) consensus mechanism, which is backed by ASIC, altered and had an ongoing impact on that dynamic by requiring miners to become ever more effective at solving mathematical puzzles to validate blocks and collect BTC rewards.

The Bitcoin community was skeptical in 2001, when Buterin was publishing his article on the new hardware. The initial generation of Avalon ASIC devices, however, were delivered by Canaan and were capable of generate an average of 68,000 Mega hashes per second (MH/s), even though the network's overall hashrate was only 22,000 GH/s.

The long-awaited ASICs are in fact real, according to Buterin. The original ASICs, as shown in the image below, were made in China and resembled desktop PCs. They could produce $240 BTC day, or about 1 BTC in 2013, or $23,700 in today's money.

The Avalon models, which are currently in their 13th generation, have a power efficiency of 25 Joule per TH and can produce over 130 Tera Hash/s. The Bitcoin mining market has grown into new regions and markets since the introduction of these devices. 

The majority of businesses use thousands of ASICs to scale and remain lucrative, and now there are Bitcoin mining companies that are openly traded on the American stock exchange. These specialized machines are multiplying at the same time that Bitcoin is becoming a more popular worldwide commodity, and the cryptocurrency market has a speculator-dominated sector that draws some of the most significant businesses in the world.

One may argue that without ASICs, the attention given to BTC would have been slower. This hardware generated interest and increased the financial incentives for people to protect the Bitcoin network, triggering a blockchain-based "Gold Rush" 2.0.

Article Credit: Bitcoinist

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