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GAWMiners has just released some interesting information, their plans to start offering what they call the world’s first 500 MHS Scrypt ASIC miner, and on top of that it will be powered by sub-1000 Watts power supply. The Vaultbreaker and its brother, the smaller 250 MHS Vaultbreaker Mini – for the compact enthusiasts – are the first of a new line of Scrypt ASIC machines GAW will release. Shipping time for the first batch is apparently planned for the end of Q3, or early Q4, with the company promising that they will try to beat the KnC Titan to market. The pre-orders for the new Scrypt ASIC miner should start today for existing customers and after that, they will be opening up the doors to the public at large on the 24th. The price for the pre-order is currently set at $8999.95 USD or $4999.95 USD for the Mini, so cheaper than the other competing products that do currently promise lower hashrate. There is no information what the ASIC chips inside the miner will be, but with this kind of performance promised at sub 1000W power consumption you can guess that we are talking about 28nm chips or even less…

For more information about the new Vaultbreaker Scrypt ASIC miner you can check GAWMiners website…

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The Bitcoin cloud mining service Cloud Hashing is becoming more aggressive lately as they have just announced their plans to start offering $1.99 USD price per GH for Bitcoin cloud mining. Their recent merger with the hardware manufacturer HighBitCoin and the forming of the company PeerNova has apparently allowed them to do achieve really good mining performance and thus be able to lower the price for their cloud mining services. They claim that PeerNova’s new PetaOne Blade using a custom 28nm ASIC chip has a power efficiency of 0.35W per GH/s and that is half of what the KnCMiner’s new Neptune miners are said to be able to offer in terms of power efficiency.

There is a bit of a catch though, you are not able to yet get the $1.99 USD price per GHS for their cloud mining services. The mining contracts at this new price are set to go live in August and are 1 year in length and will be a limited volume available on a first come first serve basis. To take advantage of this offer you should apparently contact them company at support@cloudhashing.com or by phone at (512)758-7847 to get more details. At the moment the price per GHS you can get with the lowest entry level cloud mining plan in terms of hashrate being offered is about $7.48 USD for the 40 GHS plan and about $5 per GHS for the 600 GHS plan. But the big question is what will be the Bitcoin network difficulty by August, especially now that KnCMiner is about to start shipping their new 3 THS Bitcoin miners. Apparently we’ll have to wait and see.

For more information about the Bitcoin Cloud mining service CloudHashing and to try them out…

This is something interesting in terms of a project looking for crowdfunding on KickStarter, a feature-length documentary about the people who create and use crypto currencies. If you are looking for some interesting project to support and are into crypto currencies, then it can be all set. Though we are wondering why there are also no addresses present to help the project by actually donating crypto currencies and not supporting it with money (not on the KickStarter page, but on the official project website for example). The guys behind the project are apparently not only experienced in filmmaking, but are also into crypto mining themselves and they have some footage that they have shot already available, so you can take a look at it. Though so far it is mostly covering DogeCoin (not that it is bad), but they will need to do more than that, a lot more. The expected release of the full featured documentary movie called “Coined: The Story of Cryptocurrency” is expected to happen sometime by the end of next year if the crowdfunding is successful. If you like the idea and what you can see you have 29 more days to support the project and help it reach the goal of $72000 USD or if not, they can at least move to taking crypto currency donations from users that are willing to support their idea.

For more information about the project for a crypto currency documentary on KickStarter…


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