Quote from: NotFuzzyWarm on March 23, 2023, 02:07:32 PM

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f I remember correctly, these usb block erupters were the first asic miners for bitcoin.

No, they were the 1st USB stick miners for BTC. They were put together by Friedcat using ASIC's made by Canaan who created the 1st BTC ASIC chips in 2013. Those 1st chips were used in much larger miners like today's are.

That's correct, they were the the first 1st USB stick miners for BTC created by a company called ASICMiner (friedcat) in May of 2013. This used the first generation ASICminer chip, the BE100. It was a 130nm ASIC designed by the company, which was mostly just friedcat.

Friedcat did not use ASIC chips created by Avalon Canaan. The Avalon1 was the worlds first ASIC miner that was released in January 2013. Although Avalon did sell 110nm ASIC chips and open sourced the software and hardware for their Avalon1 product, the two products were completely independent of each other.

ASICMiner created the BE100 ASIC chips and used them on their Block Erupter Blade, Block Erupter USB stick, and Block Erupter Cube before moving on to their next generation of ASIC chip, the BE200. Their first product (Blades) were released in April of 2013.

I work with @TheCoinDad and I am one of the individuals that helped develop the Bitcoin Mining Museum website. I've been mining bitcoin for a while and have participated in setting up and presenting the museum in person at the most recent Mining Disrupt event in Miami. This is the reason I am so quickly able to recall certain details from the early ASIC mining days Cheesy

We have lots of plans for the website coming up. We are working on building out a historic timeline of events when it comes to milestones, ASIC miner release dates, and some of the most controversial events surrounding ASIC miners and companies!