ASIC stands for Application-Specific Integrated Circuits. An ASIC mining rig is essentially a computer specifically designed to quickly perform one specific task over and over. ASIC technology has made it faster to mine bitcoin, while operating more efficiently than GPU mining rigs. ASIC miners can only mine the cryptocurrency that it was designed for.
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