Samsung produces dedicated chips to dig virtual money

The Korean newspaper The Bell first reported on this on Tuesday and by Wednesday, Samsung had confirmed to TechCrunch that it was producing chips to dig virtual money, though no further details were revealed. Any other.

This will turn Samsung into a direct rival of Chinese companies like Bitmain, Canaan and the US company Bitfury. These are companies that specialize in manufacturing ASIC (integrated circuits for each application) - the chip is specifically designed to dig Bitcoin and other virtual currencies.

New Bitcoin is created through the process of digging money, in which computers connected to the network will have to handle complex operations and simultaneously run Bitcoin payment systems. In detail, the coins will be more or less different but basically the process is the same.

If you want to dig virtual money, you must invest, not any machine can dig

At first, almost anyone can dig Bicoin with their personal computer. But when BItcoin became more and more popular, digging was more and more difficult. Now this is so difficult that anyone who wants to dig must actually invest with ASIC.

Digging virtual money is a profitable business, so it is not surprising that Samsung, the world's largest chip maker by January 31, 2018, decided to set foot in. Taiwanese TSMC, which makes chips for Bitmain and Creative, earned $ 350 to $ 400 in revenue in the fourth quarter from this sector.

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