/PRNewswire/ Core Scientific, the largest blockchain hosting provider in North America, today announced that it has executed agreements with long-term.
Bitmain Secures Massive Order of 42,000 S19j Antminers from Riot Blockchain
8 hours ago by Bhushan Akolkar · 3 min read
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As per the press release, Riot will start receiving S19j Antminers this year already.
Public-listed mining firm Riot Blockchain is all set for a massive boost to its Antminers collection. On Wednesday, April 7, Riot Blockchain announced placing a massive purchase of 42,000 S19j Antminers for USD $138.5 million from Bitmain. Thus, it will bring the total Antiminers deployed by Riot Blockchain to 81,150.
The new Antimner arsenal will increase Riot’s hashrate by 93%. Currently, under full deployment, Riot’s Bitcoin mining hashrate stands somewhere at 7.7 exahash per second (EH/s). However, the deployment of the newly purchased machines will bump it up further.
Marathon Settles Record-Breaking ASIC Acquisition, Buys 70,000 High Performance Bitcoin Miners
On December 28, the publicly listed firm Marathon Patent Group announced the purchase of 70,000 Antminer S19 bitcoin miners from Bitmain for $170 million. Marathon expects the shipments to complete in 2021, giving the mining operation over a hundred thousand ASIC miners or more than ten exahash of hashpower.
Marathon Patent Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:MARA) revealed the company is dedicating a lot of capital toward the bitcoin mining industry. On Monday, Marathon announced one of the largest mining rig purchases to-date, as the firm has purchased 70,000 Antminer S19 bitcoin miners from Bitmain. The purchase will cost $170 million according to Marathon’s announcement on Monday morning.
Riot Blockchain Buys 15,000 Antminers, Operation Will Command 37,640 Bitcoin Miners
Publicly listed firm Riot Blockchain has announced the company is purchasing 15,000 S19 Pro and S19j Pro Antminer mining rigs from Bitmain. According to the company, the new shipment of next-generation miners will increase the operation’s hashrate to 3.8 exahash per second (EH/s).
Following the announcement from Core Scientific this week purchasing over 58,000 Antminer series ASIC bitcoin miners from Bitmain, Riot Blockchain, Inc. (NASDAQ: RIOT) revealed it has purchased 15,000 new miners. The company says that it will obtain approximately 3,000 S19 Pro Antminers (110TH/s) and 12,000 S19j Pro Antminers (100 TH/s).