5,000 treasurer is a miniature computer +14 million computing cores, forming a huge mining platform.
In the Best of the Columbia River, East Washington, Washington, there is low hydraulic power generation, which is cheap, and Dave Carlson is built here that may be the largest bitcoin mining platform on the earth.
Carlson said that in any time, his goals were 70% of Bitcoin mining capacity. At this moment, the computing power he has now has a lot more than the target value, but this goal may be reached in the future. There are more than 1.4 million BITFURY mine chips in this cloud excavation platform MEGABIGPOWER, and thousands of berry piping microcomputers digitoids through specific software.
Carlson said: "We have been looking for the lowest cost, the highest output, the smallest volume, but the equipment has a motherboard design that is connected to other electronic devices. There are too many solutions on the market, but the Raspberry Party This solution can be done as long as 40 US dollars. "
"We have achieved half of the Bitcoin mining capacity in the United States through consumer electronics."
If you really want to make money by digging your portal, then you can have your own hardware device, not to rent a computer. If you don't work hardware parameters, then pay for others to complete the mining task for income division. CARLSON did to use the assembled hardware equipment to use people who want to dig, and then charge some of the digcombetcoin as a fee. If someone really wants to use his hardware and configuration to complete the mining task, they You can do one by oneself, you can also get all the bitcoin if you don't have to pay the equipment.
Despite this, MegabigPower's small team actually occupying the incredible market share of Bitcoin mining networks with funds and ambitions. The team of Carlson is less than 10, but includes CTO, product managers, operations, technology and equipment employees.
Carlson said that he is now 5,000 Bitecoin (excluding 1000 Bitecuro lost on Mt.gox), followed by $ 585, Carlson's current Bit coin is $ 2.9 million. "I didn't put Bitcoin to be distributed, and I decided to retain them for a long time. I don't think Betcoin is over."
Carlson said that he is now adding 10-20% from the bittle produced from the cloud coil platform. "I took the most of the Bitcoin, and I also gave some to the employee. I still spend very little."
After a year, the motherboard design and manufacturing were manufactured, the first batch of equipment in the mine platform arrived in July 2013. The team of Carlson uses these devices to achieve "Petahash" mining capacity, that is, 1,000 trillion hash calculations per second. In January this year, a platform for two platforms and Poland, Washington, has reached 2.2 "Gigabo Hash" in MEGABIGPOWER.
To achieve such a large computing power, it takes a lot of electricity. Carlson said, including Poland, MegabigPower has taken more than 300 million watts of electricity. MegabigPower's two platforms in Washington totaled a total of 16,000 square feet of area, filled with mining machines and power facilities. Carlson said that the power facilities in the two buildings have been running over a full load.
Carlson needs to expand its scale, upgrade computing power, only this can have 70% of the computing power in the field of Bitcoin mining. At present, the global hash calculation capacity is probably 39.5 "Gigabo Havi", Carlson's 2.2 "Gigabo Hash" only accounts for 5.6% of the world. Within one month, Carlson will add 1 "Gigabit Hash" computing power. At that time, his share accounts for 8%.
He plans to build a mining platform in Washington State and deploy the latest hardware design. Now Carlson's equipment contains 16 motherboards, 16 BitFury chips on each motherboard, that is, 256 mining chips per mineralization equipment. Carlson now has 90,000 motherboards, but also, now there is 5,600 mining equipment now.
MegabigPower's new mining equipment will include 756 BitFury digging chips. He said: "We are actively building mining platforms in the East and west, and maintain the balance of these two platforms, but the problem is difficult to grow in an exponential growth, but our construction is not able to grow with synchronous growth."
Now, MegabigPower can dig 7-8,000 Bitecurcoin each month, converted into cash, probably 30-4.7 million US dollars per month. Megabigpower will be 8 million US dollars in that month if it is the highest US dollar in January.
How do mining platform mining?
This may be your first time I heard that Bitcoin mining, maybe you can hear a Bitby mining. Carlson connects the digitized mining activity to form a large ticket exchange. You can imagine the Visa Credit Card Center, and Visa will not process all credit trading in your own data center, but disperse data center to trusted company and institutions to reward trading fees, let them complete credit card transactions for Visa. Treatment. This kind of calculation is very difficult, and if there is no one second billion computing power, it is difficult to complete this work. This requires the miner to be proceeded by the network before this module is accepted. Because more and more people are more and more, the difficulty of finding available modules is getting bigger and bigger.
Only a special chip can meet the requirements of the miner's computing capacity on the hash. Equipment such as bits, CPUs, GPUs, and FPGAs are used to mine, but the computing power is not as good as ASIC (specific integrated circuit). ASIC chip built into Bitfury built-in "SHA algorithm", "this chip can only complete a function, but the performance is far more than other chips."
But the light has a chip is not enough. Bitfury offers mineral muscles, and the Raspberry Pie has provided the brain of mining. With the Raspberry Pist, Carlson and his colleagues have written their own digging software, data exchange can be performed between the various mining tools.
Before the Raspberry Pivot is started, the Linux server running the mining software is tongue to the Bitcoin network to get the latest module target. The server then informs the information to the retro machine, disperse data traffic, and then the BitFury chip on the machine starts the calculation of the hash value.
"If you find a suitable hash value, the chip returns the data to the Raspberry Pist, then the Raspberry Pie sends to the Linux server. Then the server will send the data to the Bitcoin network, get the Bitcoin reward of this module."
Bitcoin generates a fixed rate, and only 21 million Bitecurcoin on the entire network, and the upper limit will be reached in 2140. However, the difficulty of mining will increase with the increase in the problem of modules and increased mining equipment.
High risk, high return
Before the investment of the venture capital, Carlson completed the MegabigPower by the bits of their own mining.
"Construction plant and equipment deployment spent $ 1 million, then spent 200-3 million US dollars on equipment. Rent $ 8,000 per month, cost $ 40,000. Now we have spent 300-5 million for this platform. Dollar, but have already earned several times the investment income. "
Carlson may run North America's largest bitcoin mining platform, and he believes that producing BitFury's British manufacturers have a larger platform.
In the past 10 years, Carlson's main job is a programmer, daily hobbies are stock, fried. It is this kind of hobby to let him embrace the road of mining. As you imagined, Carlson tried to protect his bitcoin. His investors have been hacked and have been to Bitcoin wallet, but Carlson himself never been black, but the bitcoin lost on Mt.gox really did not return.
Carlson saved some bitcoin on the Bitcoin trading platform, and there were some bitcoin on his own computer, and then printed the Bitcoin list in the bank's treasury.
There is a software called Armory to help protect the security of Bitcoin and provide backups. "This software can encrypt the Bipedcoin wallet, provide backup. Even if the computer is stolen, the hard disk is abolished, I can also take a list from the bank Garage to restore the Bitcoin wallet."
Carlson's bitcore wallet has passed two layers of encryption, each layer password is different, and the encryption difficulty of each layer is different. In theory, if someone steals his wallet, then try violent cracking, to try a variety of passwords, you can successfully, let alone Carlson will not look at others to crack his wallet.
"If some people have violently crack my wallet, there is another layer of protection, I will change a new Bitcoin wallet every other time, even if someone can get my wallet, he will not take great heart to get it. Several Bitcoin. "
Another business in Carlson is to sell this mining motherboard online, and there is a $ 5 million order under the family of 5 million, but he will not do this.
"There is a very interesting thing, the merchant does not trust the credit card payment. When online trading, the credit card may have fraudulent behavior, so they like Bitcoin payment, but also pay discounts to Bitcoin. Because The first time can know if the payment is successful, and it is also known whether the Bitcoin is true. The credit card fraud is now let me want to do Bitcoin payment business. "
People who have just learned that Bitcoin may think that this investment takes time consumption, Carlson said: "Everyone can get a bitcoin, the key is to do homework before entering this line, find the best in the market. Hardware device. "
Even if you don't make a penny when you dig, there is another benefit: feel happiness. When I asked if the small-scale mining could get anything, Carlson said: "Ah, I think this process is very interesting, my employees have the beginning of the miner."
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