AntPool, one of the largest cryptocurrency mining pools, has announced that it will now support Siacoin.
AntPool announced that their in-house Bitmain It is stated that strong> has started mining with a new mining rig called AntMiner A3. Retrieved data shows that AntPool currently accounts for 18% of bitcoin’s processing power.
Siacoin, decentralized cloud is a file storage network platform released by Boston-based blockchain organization Nebulous to support the storage system.
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Bitmain It is stated that new mining devices with 815 GH/s processing power support the “blake2b” hash algorithm to secure the Siacoin blockchain.
However, this initiative does not seem to have been well received by a member of the Siacoin development team.
Reddit “Taek42 A representative who goes by the alias ” argued that Bitmain can make a profit in front of the Sia ecosystem. Taek42 stated that the Sia blockchain can be converted to block mining via AntMiner A3, but this requires a soft fork.
Specific While some were very positive about Taek42‘s opinion, others welcomed Bitmain‘s participation in the Sia arena
Another user with the nickname “JoWi96” on Reddit said, “What Bitmain has done on behalf of Siacoin is also quite remarkable. It increases its value.” He expressed his thoughts by saying.
The fact that Bitmain did not make any statement on these comments did not go unnoticed.
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