The miners have a hashrate of 319 TH/s and 216 TH/s, respectively.
The mining equipment will be delivered between the first and second quarters of 2025.
Bitmain announced this Wednesday, October 9, at the Bitcoin Amsterdam 2024 event, two new Bitcoin miners, the S21+ Hyd and S21+ ASICs. These devices have hashrates of 319 TH/s and 216 TH/s respectively, with efficiencies of 15 J/TH and 16.5 J/TH. The delivery of this equipment is scheduled for between the first and second quarters of 2025.
The new S21+ Hyd and S21+ miners are less powerful and efficient than the previously announced S21XP Hydro and S21 XP, offering up to 473 TH/s and an efficiency of 12.7 J/TH for the former, and 270 TH/s with 13. 5 J/TH for the second, as reported by CriptoNoticias four months ago. Furthermore, this announcement comes a year after the presentation of the S21 Hyd and the S21, highlighting the former as the most powerful miner by reaching 335 TH/s.
The Bitcoin mining industry has seen a constant evolution in ASIC miner technology, reflected in the launch of the new S21+. This development not only shows innovation in computing capacity and energy efficiency, but also underlines the competition within the sector to create more efficient devices.
The importance of manufacturing new mining equipment lies in the continuous improvement of the security and efficiency of the Bitcoin network. As the difficulty of mining increases, maintain an ecosystem with updated hardware ensures that the Bitcoin network can process transactions faster and safer, strengthening its decentralized structure.
With the exception of the new Bitmain miners, the introduction of more powerful and efficient miners benefits the Bitcoin network in several ways. First, it increases network security, as a higher hashrate makes 51% attacks, where an attacker could control the majority of the network’s computing power, more difficult. Second, improves the energy sustainability of the mining processa critical point in the narrative of cryptocurrencies, especially Bitcoin, regarding their environmental impact.
The energy efficiency of these new miners, although slightly lower than previous models, The trend towards more responsible energy consumption continuespartially aligning Bitcoin mining with global sustainability goals. Now, introducing less powerful and efficient Bitcoin miners can increase the energy cost per transaction, affecting the profitability of mining, especially if only miners with access to cheap energy can operate efficiently.
This could have consequences, such as increasing the centralization of mining, and even reducing digital activity due to environmental and efficiency concerns.
Whatever the case, this innovation in mining also reflects the adaptability of the Bitcoin ecosystem to technological and regulatory challenges.
The recent partnership between Bitmain and Hut8 to develop the U3S21EXPH miner, with a promised power of 860 TH/s, as reported by CriptoNoticias, illustrates collaboration in the industry to push the limits of what is possible, showing that competition and collaboration between companies can accelerate technological advancement in Bitcoin mining.
This article was created using artificial intelligence and edited by a human Editor.
