Bitmain Launches New More Powerful, Liquid-Cooled BTC Miner
2 min readThe largest manufacturer of BTC mining equipment, Bitmain has announced the launch of a new miner focused exclusively on the biggest cryptocurrency on the market, BTC.
Thus, the new Antminer S19 Pro + Hyd is the most powerful hardware at the moment for mining BTC and it incorporates a liquid cooling system.
Antminer S19 Pro + Hyd – most powerful hardware at the moment
Therefore, according to the company, this model is equipped with a hashrate of 198 TH/s (terahashes per second), a power consumption of 5445 W (watts of power) and an energy efficiency of 27.5 J/TH (Joules per terahash).
Thus, Bitmain reported on Twitter that the new ASIC is designed to be used with the Antspace HK3 mining container, which has the capacity to submerge 210 units, as detailed by the company on its website.
The company indicates that it expects to ship the new equipment between May and September of this year, so, for now, it does not give details on its price.
Thus, cooling BTC miners by immersion in liquid soda is a proposal that is increasingly reverberating in the industry, as it is an activity that seeks to increase the profitability and speed of the machines that mine BTC.
The American company DMG Blockchain Solutions works in this line, which last year announced its plans to increase its profits by reducing capital spending. With the new method, you will control the temperature of equipment with liquid refrigerants.
Thus, the company’s strategy consists of executing all its operations under its immersion system, with which it intends to obtain a competitive advantage.
A year ago, Canaan also announced the launch of a new device, called “Avalon Immersion Cooling A1066I”. It is, in essence, a new miner that allows for immersion cooling.
According to the descriptions, the machine has 90 mining modules running on liquid cooling simultaneously. Likewise, the miner is guaranteed to achieve superior processing power with an overclock rate of 45%