Bitfury IT Director: further improvement of bitcoin miners is not possible

Developers of processors for ASIC miners have actually reached the upper limit of hardware optimization. AboutThis was reported by CIO Bitfury Alexey Petrov during the online conference ForkLog «Bitcoin halving: price versus technology».

According to him, Moore's law for microcircuits has alreadybroke»: a further increase in the density of transistors no longer provides such an increase in productivity, while the cost of production increases significantly.

«3nm and 5nm technologies are balancing on the brinkthe possibility of the existence of the crystals themselves. At 3nm we can't guarantee that the conductors are wide enough to fit three electrons, the transistors will behave unpredictably and the manufacturing complexity increases exponentially.- Petrov explained.

Small-sized technologies pose many restrictions for engineers, the expert adds.

«The opportunity to jump over this barexists only if we find a technically more advanced technological model: chemical, electromagnetic or optical chips. It’s hard to guess now - this is virtually uncharted territory.

Manufacturers left no technical space for themselves: in addition to chips, they optimized both the devices themselves and the cooling systems.

On the other hand, Andrei Petrov continues, ifPreviously, Bitcoin miners quickly became obsolete due to constant improvements, but after reaching the bar in the invention of microcircuits and the emergence of new equipment manufacturers, «ASIC» will become available to users.

«It is no longer possible to improve the miners further, but whenThis allows them to be produced in large quantities. The market will fill up, and the equipment will become available to those who want to mine at home or heat the house»,— said the IT director of Bitfury.

Earlier, Poolin pool told which bitcoin miners will become unprofitable after a halving.