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Title: When was the first ASIC miner released? Post by: spaceships on December 24, 2013, 05:06:22 AM Title says it, I'm just curious.
Title: Re: When was the first ASIC miner released? Post by: empoweoqwj on December 24, 2013, 05:11:45 AM Title says it, I'm just curious. Long after it was ordered ;) Title: Re: When was the first ASIC miner released? Post by: spaceships on December 24, 2013, 05:22:49 AM Lol, was thinking more along the lines of an actual date. Was curious to see the correlation between their release and the value of BTC.
Title: Re: When was the first ASIC miner released? Post by: sidehack on December 24, 2013, 05:31:31 AM Avalon was the first release I know of. Did anyone beat them out the gate?
Title: Re: When was the first ASIC miner released? Post by: SolarSilver on December 24, 2013, 06:20:00 AM Title says it, I'm just curious. https://twitter.com/jgarzik/status/296709252351926273 Jeff got the first one, so it looks like the 30th of Jan 2013 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=140099.0 http://bitcoinmagazine.com/3203/avalon-ships-bitcoins-first-consumer-asics/ Title: Re: When was the first ASIC miner released? Post by: dropt on December 24, 2013, 06:43:02 AM IIRC ASICMiner was the first to make it out the door. Avalon was the first to an end-user.
Title: Re: When was the first ASIC miner released? Post by: empoweoqwj on December 24, 2013, 07:04:38 AM IIRC ASICMiner was the first to make it out the door. Avalon was the first to an end-user. Yeah good point. Depends whether you mean "started operating", or "sold to end-user". ASICMINER started using them first I believe, but didn't sell to end users for ages. |