Bitmain produces an ASIC Mainer for Kaspa production – Bits Media

The largest manufacturer of Bitmain mining equipment was introduced by the new Antminer KS3 ASIC Mainer. It is intended for the extraction of not too well -known Kaspa cryptocurrency with capitalization in $356 million.

The power of the device is 8.3 terahesha when consuming energy in 3 188 Wats. Efficiency reaches 0,38 J to Gigigesh. The price of the device is still unknown, However, the company offers a competition - if the buyer correctly guesses the price of the miner during 3 days, will get a discount coupon in $10 000. The official Kaspa account on the social network Twitter suggested, that the cost of the Antminer KS3 will be $15 999.

Reception of orders will begin 19 May, Moreover, buyers need to transfer the company deposit to buy devices. Sales start 26 May - first of all, devices will be distributed between customers, Making a deposit. For one client, sale is allowed to 30 ASIC miners. Deliveries will begin in August this year.

Kaspa cryptocurrency is built on the Ghostdag Protocol, created by Jonathan Sombolinsky (Yonatan Sompolinsky) in 2013 year. KAS coin did not gain much popularity, And over the past month, its price has decreased by 30%. Now Kaspa is trading in $0.0192, And in the circulation is 18,5 billion KAS.

Recall, that in January, the Chinese manufacturer introduced the modernized ASIC-Mainer Antminer S19J Pro+.