Ocean Mining Stunned as Micro Bitcoin Miner With 5 TH/s Finds Block in Solo Mining Lottery
Ocean Mining reports that a small, $500 application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) Nerdminer, humming along at about 5 terahash per second (TH/s), managed to hit a block — a feat that would typically demand a wait of...
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