Hardware

Bitmain's new Antminer S19 XP Hyd. (Bitmain)
Bitmain Says New Liquid Cooling Miner Is its Most Power-Efficient Model to Date
The S19 XP Hyd. will deliver 255 TH/s at 20.8 J/T.
Bitmain's new Antminer S19 XP Hyd. (Bitmain)

Ledger Nano S hard wallet. (Motokoka/Wikimedia Commons)
Coinbase to Integrate Ledger’s Hardware Wallets
The move will give the exchange’s users another way to hold their crypto.
Ledger Nano S hard wallet. (Motokoka/Wikimedia Commons)

People's Bank of China
Honor Releases First Snapdragon Smartphone With Digital Yuan Wallet
The PBoC has been pushing for hardware applications of the digital yuan.
People's Bank of China

treasure, gold
UK Man Offers Council $72M if He Finds Discarded Bitcoin Trove at Landfill
The town of Newport in Wales could get a hefty reward if the treasure is found in the trash.
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Photo courtesy of DMG Blockchain
The Rise of ASICs: A Step-by-Step History of Bitcoin Mining
The machines that maintain the Bitcoin network have undergone rapid technological development. Here's a detailed look at that evolution and at what might lie ahead.
Photo courtesy of DMG Blockchain

CES visitors check out IoTeX's camera and Pundi X's phone in the Innovation Awards section. (Photo by Brady Dale for CoinDesk)
Hardware Is Hard: Two Blockchain Devices Win Plaudits at CES 2020
A blockchain-secured smartphone and home security camera won Innovation Awards at the annual trade show in Las Vegas. But don’t call the startups behind them hardware companie...
CES visitors check out IoTeX's camera and Pundi X's phone in the Innovation Awards section. (Photo by Brady Dale for CoinDesk)

Elk board
The Elk Is a Tiny Prototyping Board for Building Blockchain-Connected Devices
Elk aims to make it easy to connect hardware devices to blockchains and control electronic components or accept payments.
Elk board

keyboard
The Creator of Proof-of-Stake Thinks He Finally Figured It Out
Pseudonymous developer Sunny King, the creator of proof-of-stake, has a new approach for the consensus mechanism – and it revolves around hardware.
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Sony
Sony Patent Filings Hint at Work on Crypto Mining Hardware
Japanese technology giant Sony wants to patent two approaches to hosting and maintaining blockchains, newly published documents show.
Sony

intel, conference
Silicon Blockchain: Intel's Distributed Ledger Strategy Is All About Hardware
Upending the narrative that software is key in the blockchain space, Intel details its years-long effort to link distributed ledgers to hardware.
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