The race to obtain equipment with better performance for the cryp tining is taking the leading companies in the market in design and production of ASICs, to mark new challenges; which is why this year alone we have seen new releases of ASICs oriented towards mining algorithms such as Cryptonight, Blake and some others. Now, with the launch of the Antminer Z9, it is the turn of Equihash (ZCASH, Bitcoin Gold, Komodo, etc.), a device that has been designed and manufactured by Bitmain.
The sale price of this first batch will be 1999 USD, with the possibility of being paid with BCH (Bitcoin Cash), BTC (Bitcoin) or LTC (Litecoin). The sending date of these ASICs will begin on June 20, 2018.
Will there be consensus of the miners or some coin will launch a fork to update its ANTI ASIC network?
So far, none of the main cryptocurrencies directly linked to the Equishash algorithm (ZCASH, Komodo, Bitcoin Gold) has been pronounced and it is expected that in the coming hours they can be pronounced through their main channels of dissemination in social networks.
No criptominero wants to spend the bad swallow happened a few weeks ago with the ASICs Antminer X3, which despite its 220 kH / S power and its unbeatable 550 W. consumption, was banned from the Monero network and some other cryptocurrencies with Criptonight algorithm.