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Re: Early ASIC Mining
by
DaveF
on 11/09/2021, 23:50:11 UTC
⭐ Merited by HeRetiK (1) ,flip4flop (1)
Some links below from the olden days of the forum.
There are more but these are the bigger ones. There were a few in 2012, most really came into it in 2013. Even if they were planning in 2012 by the time the chips were made and miners built it was 2013 some into 2014.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=91173.0
Or more to the point:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=91173.msg1211518#msg1211518

Avalon:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=120184

Bitfury in 2013:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=228677

BTCGarden:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=213172

BFL:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=83985.0

Cointerra:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=269093

Gridseed:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=355268.0
IIRC they were the 1st to propose SHA / Scrypt on one chip. And one of only a couple to actually make it.

KNC:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=170332.0
They had a really epic implosion in the end IMO.

-Dave