I got a hold of a few Ice Furies which looked extremely cool with their shiny metal heatsink on a white PCB. Ice Fury ASIC 2.9 GH/sĪfter the Blue Fury batches there were several other color variations made. These didn’t look nearly as cool and definitely were built in mind with lowering their manufacturing cost.
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Instead of having the beautiful full red heatsink like the red furies it had a half heatsink in plain black. The next batch of the Fury miner was called the Blue Fury. However since one of these had the power of 8 Block Erupters the price still seemed worth it at the time. They cost about $100 a piece so they were not cheap compared to the Block Erupters. The BitFury chip would also be used in other ASICs including non-USB type ASICs.Īt more than 10x the hash speed of a Block Erupter these were in very high demand and sold out very quickly. The chip inside this was called the “BitFury” chip (thus the name).
It was made by a company called the “Big Picture Mining Company”.
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The Red Fury was the first batch of the Fury line and it came with a beautiful full size red heatsink.
The Red / Blue / Ice Fury ASIC Red Fury ASIC Miner This successful mining then flipping would set me up for trouble later (especially with the Gridseeds and the Cubes). Once I started mining with Red Furies I sold these in December 2013 for $40 each or about $400 total after mining with them for a few months. This ended up being a real bargain as the demand for them skyrocketed as mining success stories started to come in. It looks like I was able to get them for about $13 a piece. How reasonable you ask? I dug through my old Gmail receipts to find this: In contrast to these previous offerings ASICMiner pushed enough real hardware in the market that ordinary people were able to obtain them for a reasonable price. They were finally shut down by the FTC in 2014. They sold tens of thousands of preorders for a miner they hadn’t produced yet and strung people along for essentially years. Butterfly Labs is an infamous example of this.
Up until this point the Bitcoin ASIC market was filled with essentially scams. The mining speed of the miner was 330 MH/s. This miner was powered by the BE100 chipset (ASICMiner’s first generation 1 chip). Although this wasn’t the first ever Bitcoin ASIC introduced it was the first one that wasn’t nearly impossible to get your hands on. Our journey begins with the ASICMiner Block Erupter Sapphire miner. Let’s go on a journey together back to the year of 2013 and explore what old school Bitcoin mining ASIC hardware looked like, how much it cost, and what we can learn from them today! ASICMiner Block Erupter USB Sapphire Miner BlockErupter ASIC Miner I found a bunch of pictures in my photo library of my old mining rigs back from the dawn of Bitcoin ASIC mining and wanted to share them. To get seriously involved in the Bitcoin mining space of today will require you to already be quite wealthy and to put up some *serious* cash.īut things were not always this way. The most competitive Bitcoin mining operations today consist of entire warehouses of large ASIC miners usually located near sources of renewable energy or power plants selling off excess energy production for cheap.
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