Bitmain announced the start of sales of the Ethereum miner Antminer E9

Bitmain announced the start of sales of the Antminer E9 ASIC miner, created to mine the second largest market capitalizationcryptocurrencies.

Characteristics of the new device:

• hashrate - 2400 MH / s, which is equivalent to 25 RTX 3080 video cards;
• power consumption - 1920 W;
• energy efficiency: 0.8 J/M.

The start of sales is scheduled for July 6th. The price of the new miner is still unknown.

Antminer E9 was announced back in April 2021. That same month, Bitmain said the new device would be a "game changer."

Earlier, ForkLog released a material about the features of the large-scale update The Merge, which involves the transition of Ethereum to the Proof-of-Stake algorithm.

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