On September 5, the vice president of Pool Ocean, Jason Hughes, noticed the occurrence of a fundamental event for solo and domestic mining with low capacity equipment: a mini Asic Nerdqaxe ++ (only 10 TH/S capacity) undermined a Bitcoin block. 10 th/s It is a 50 times smaller hash rate than that produced by a Bitmain antminer S21 xp+ hyd (500 th/s)one of the full most profitable large -scale mining systems. The milestone in question happened at block 913272, which paid 0.009 BTC in rates and granted a more total tariffs of 3,134 BTC. The winning miner used Datum, a decentralized template selection protocol. As Cryptonotics reported, Datum allows individual miners to select the transactions to include within a bitcoin block. This eliminates Pool administrators as intermediaries and exerts a healthy effect of variance in the selection of transactionswhich is good for the Bitcoin Network. Jason Hughes investigated some loose data and concluded that, although mining by a small Asic, it was not a bitaxe:
According to the data created by Datum in the generation transaction, it was the second connection to the Datum gateway. It is almost certain that it was not a bitaxe (the strange2 is too high) … so they could be some Nanos guarantee, or perhaps a futurebit? Jason Hughes, vice president of Pool Ocean.
The miner responsible for undermining the block would have contacted Ocean’s vice president, revealing that he used a mini Asic Qaxe ++. According to Hughes (in response to Skot, the creator of the Bitaxe), Datum does not reveal much information about the hardware and the firmware used by the miners. However, some ASIC miners and mining software insert unique patterns in the strange2 field, which can give certain indirect clues about the type of equipment used. As Cryptonoticias reported, the Nerdqaxe ++ delivers a hashrate of almost 5 terahas per second (th/s), which suggests that The ASIC that undermined block 913272 could be optimized. It consumes 76 watts, has an efficiency of 15.8 joules by Terahash (J/th) and incorporates four BM1370 chips, extracted from the Bitmain S21 pro antminer.
