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The Goldshell MINI DOGE II 420 MH/s Scrypt ASIC Miner is Now Available

1, Mar 2023

Goldshell has completed their new BOX II home-oriented mini miners line-up with the release of the MINI DOGE II miner that is now available on their website for orders. The new Goldshell MINI DOGE II ASIC miner, much like the other BOX II devices, comes with dual operating modes – 420 MH/s at 400 Watts or 355 MH/s at 260 Watts for the Scrypt algorithm. The device can merge-mine LTC and DOGE simultaneously or any other Scrypt-based crypto currency. The new Mini DOGE II miner comes in the updated slightly larger and heavier form factor compared to the older MINI DOGE PRO devices and with dual 6-pin PCI-E power connectors due to the increased power usage, just like the rest of the BOX II product line. There is a slight improvement in terms of efficiency for the higher hashrate mode where you get 0.95 Watts per Megahash (compared to 1.1 Watt per Megahash for the MINI DOGE PRO), but the more interesting efficiency wise number is in the low power mode where you get 0.78 Watts per Megahash in terms of power usage.

The new MINI DOGE II Scrypt ASIC miner is available for order at a price of $495 USD from the official Goldshell website, the price does not include shipping and taxes and it is for a WiFi equipped version (apparently wireless connectivity comes standard for this model). Expected date for the orders to start shipping is said to be before March 13, so in about two weeks. Do note that the official specs, just like with other BOX II devices are wrong in terms of the actual size cited by Goldshell, the devices are slightly larger and heavier compared to the previous PRO models!

Official Goldshell MINI DOGE II Specifications:
– Default Hashrate Mode: 420 MH/S ±5%
– Default Hashrate Power: 400 W ±5%
– Low-Power Mode: 335 MH/S ±5%
– Low-Power Mode: 260 W ±5%
– Operating Temp: 0~35 ℃
– Dimension: 178mm*150mm*84mm
– Noise： ≤35 dB
– Connection Port: Ethernet/Wi-Fi
– Net Weight: 2.3 kg

In terms of efficiency even in the low power mode the Goldshell MINI DOGE II is still very far from what the latest Bitmain Antminer L7 Scrypt ASIC miner is able to offer, but not everyone can afford an L3 or be able to run it due to its high-power requirements. Goldshell MINI DOGE II comes as a more affordable, even though not the most efficient solution, that you can easily run at home or in a small mining operation. It is pretty silent and easy to operate, placement around the home is easier if using WiFi connectivity and can be used as a compact home heater that kind of covers the whole electricity it uses (depending on your electricity costs) at the moment. Interesting, but not very profitable new release with the current market conditions, so do think twice before pulling the trigger on this one.

– To visit the official Goldshell MINI DOGE II Scrypt ASIC miner product page…

The DogeCar Back in Nascar and With a Dedicated Website

18, Oct 2014

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Josh Wise the driver of the DOGE community sponsored Nascar DogeCar is back at the Talladega Superspeedway for the GEICO 500 race this Sunday. Josh has also launched a dedicated website for the DogeCar where you can support the team for 2015 with some nicely themed merchandise and even an official sponsorship coin. If you are a DogeCoin fan or like the idea to have a crypto currency backed car in Nascar you are welcome to show your support. The only thing we could not find on the dedicated DogeCar website is a DOGE address for direct donations in DogeCoin as we are sure that a lot of people would be more than happy to just send some coins to support the DogeCar… we do have some ready to be sent.

– Visit the official dedicated website of the DogeCar for more information…

DOGE After a Few Days of Merged Mining

15, Sep 2014

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After the announcement of the Dogecoin and Litecoin merged mining a few days ago we’ve seen some interesting development. The DOGE network hashrate and thus the difficulty has literally skyrocketed as most of the hashrate from the LTC network has been added to the DOGE as people moved to pools with merged mining support. Most of the people mining DOGE directly have also moved to merged mining as with the serious increase of Dogecoin difficulty it became pointless to directly mine for it instead of mining in a pool with support for AuxPow. In fact the AuxPow support for DOGE means that you can merge mine it not only with Litecoin, but with other Scrypt crypto currencies as well, but the main focus of course is merged mining with LTC as there the network hashrate is the highest.

litecoin-current-difficulty-hashrate

With the spike of difficulty it was expected that the price of the DOGE should rise and some people used that to speculate and do a pump up to about 90 Satoshi and then dumped bringing down the price to about 50 Satoshi. Now however the price has kind of stabilized already at a level of about 70 Satoshi, so we can say that there is a significant increase of the price meaning there is still serious interest in DOGE and the merged mining has actually done more to revive it than to kill it as some pessimists claimed. Still we are about to see what will happen on the long term, but now things seem to be stabilizing after the initial peak of interest. The effect from the merged mining that we are seeing already on the LTC side is that the difficulty has started to increase rapidly, or at least that was observed with the last difficulty adjustment. The Litecoin network difficulty has increased with almost 17% due to the spike of interest and people mining for DOGE and other Scrypt crypto currencies moving to direct LC mining with merged mining support for DOGE. This huge spike in difficulty however should most likely be a single event and we are probably going to see things moving at a slower pace in the next few days.

– For more information about the current status of the Dogecoin network hashrate and difficulty…


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