Ant mining machine adopts ASIC chip designed by bit continental produced by TSMC. All chips are based on BM prefix. Each mining machine has three or four circuit boards, and there are dozens of chips on the circuit boards, so each ant mining machine can only be used to mine one or more cryptocurrencies using the same algorithm.
Ant mining machine needs to cooperate with special mining software, and cannot use third-party software. In addition, because of its high power, the ant mining machine also needs to be used with special fire cows.
The market share of extended data ant mining machine is as high as 70%, and it is often criticized for monopolizing the cryptocurrency mining industry, which violates the purpose of decentralizing cryptocurrency. Despite the opposition of Monroe coin community, Monroe coin announced to change the mining algorithm a few days after the launch of Monroe coin mining machine (X3 mode), so as to prevent the mining machine from monopolizing the mining market and making all mining machines unable to be used for mining Monroe coins. Bitcontinent also suffered its first product failure here.
Ant mining machine will use a lot of electricity and produce a lot of waste heat during its operation. This has led to a large amount of electricity being used for mining or cooling, which has caused a lot of social criticism. At the same time, too many ant mining machines have also caused fires and power outages, causing social inconvenience.
References:
Ant Mining Machine _ Baidu Encyclopedia