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ASIC

Mining 4 references

Circuito integrado de aplicación específica, hardware especializado diseñado para realizar de manera eficiente un cálculo particular (por ejemplo, minería de Bitcoin). Los ASIC pueden dominar la minería PoW para ciertos algoritmos.

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$ETH Ethereum
Blockchain and Mining
...et. However, Ethereum's memory-hard mining algorithm (Ethash) is designed to be ASIC-resistant, promoting a more decentralized mining ecosystem. The difficulty adju...
$SOL Solana
Proof of History Sequence
...rged timeline. In practice, the fastest SHA-256 hardware available is commodity ASIC or high-end CPU hardware, and the difference in single-core performance between...
$DOGE Dogecoin
Background
...mputational power, Scrypt was intended to resist the advantage that specialized ASIC (Application-Specific Integrated Circuit) mining hardware held over general-pur...
$BCH Bitcoin Cash
Network Architecture
...SHA-256 proof-of-work algorithm, identical to Bitcoin. This means that the same ASIC mining hardware can be used to mine either chain, and miners can switch between...

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