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Decred (DCR) Gets Dedicated ASIC Rig from Bitmain

Published 09/24/2018, 06:06 AM
Updated 09/24/2018, 07:21 AM
 Decred (DCR) Gets Dedicated ASIC Rig from Bitmain

Decred (DCR), one of the coins greeting the increase in ASIC mining, now has a dedicated mining rig in the shape of Bitmain’s recently announced Antminer D3:

https://twitter.com/Antminer_main/status/1043844217288699904

Despite Bitmain’s troubles, the Antminer series has expanded with rigs dedicated to prominent altcoins that previously relied on GPU mining.

Decred is a two-tier digital asset, relying on nodes that additionally verify the network, so a 51% attack through mining alone is not possible, and an attack on the network would be prohibitively expensive. With more ASIC, however, the mining component will become even more difficult to overtake.

DCR is a relatively u...


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