{"id":144,"date":"2014-03-21T10:31:32","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T09:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digital-coins.net\/wordpress\/?p=144"},"modified":"2014-03-16T10:32:33","modified_gmt":"2014-03-16T09:32:33","slug":"what-is-an-asic-device-actually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digital-coins.net\/index.php\/2014\/03\/21\/what-is-an-asic-device-actually\/","title":{"rendered":"What is an ASIC device actually?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Specially when it comes to Bitcoin mining you read everywhere about these ASIC devices. What is that actually?<\/p>\n<p>ASIC stands for &#8220;Application Specific Integrated Circuit&#8221;. ASIC&#8217;s are specially designed pieces of hardware for performing dedicated tasks only. Nothing else. But this as efficient as possible. So when it comes to the hashing algorithms necessary to mine a specific digital coin and verify hashed transactions, ASIC&#8217;s are designed and manufactured to perform exactly the necessary hashing only and nothing else.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Advantages of an ASIC<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>fast; specially at release date<\/li>\n<li>energy efficient<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Disadvantages<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>investment costs can be pretty high<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What other software do I need to get an ASIC to mine?<\/strong><br \/>\nHere the usual suspects are to listed again: cgminer and bfgminer are your chosen tools to power your ASICS. I plan to do a little tutorial soon showing you how to get a simple USB ASIC to start mining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Specially when it comes to Bitcoin mining you read everywhere about these ASIC devices. What is that actually? ASIC stands for &#8220;Application Specific Integrated Circuit&#8221;. ASIC&#8217;s are specially designed pieces of hardware for performing dedicated tasks only. Nothing else. But this as efficient as possible. So when it comes to the hashing algorithms necessary to &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.digital-coins.net\/index.php\/2014\/03\/21\/what-is-an-asic-device-actually\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16,32,2,33,3,18,31],"class_list":["entry","post","publish","author-administrator","post-144","format-standard","category-news","post_tag-asic","post_tag-bfgminer","post_tag-bitcoin","post_tag-cgminer","post_tag-litecoin","post_tag-miner","post_tag-usb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digital-coins.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digital-coins.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digital-coins.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digital-coins.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digital-coins.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.digital-coins.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148,"href":"https:\/\/www.digital-coins.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digital-coins.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digital-coins.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digital-coins.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}