Someone plant the Bitmain Asic, and Bitcoin benefits

The scene in which Bitcoin Asic manufacturers participate seems to be about to turn around. According to Bitdeer, a Singapore -based company that manufactures hardcoin minar hardware systems, recently the mass production of the Sealminer A1 was completed, which will take approximately 3.8 EH/s to the mining market.

This was reported by the company that is also dedicated to undermining its own BTC in a report dated April 9. At the same time, Bitdeer has made the first shipments of its most recent hardware team, the Sealminer A2 (530 TH/S) in which high expectations of the Miners Community are placed.

When it is said that the mass production of a product, in this case the Sealminer A1, it was completed, this means that the large -scale manufacturing process has been completed and that the product should be ready for distribution and commercialization. The meaning of this for the manufacture of Bitcoin ASIC is cardinal: in official stores, resellers and even in racks In mining farms, the presence of Sealminer series equipment will be more frequently observed.

However, the searches of this ASIC model on the pages to buy them on the Internet reveals that the Sealminer A1 is not listed for their acquisition, so these equipment could be exhausted, delayed or not being ready for commercialization. This is strange taking into account that its most recent model, the Sealminer A2 is listed and, as some resellers allegedly affirmed, 15% of the existence of these miners were exhausted in the first 24 hours.

The truth is that Bitdeer, although not through the V1 of Sealminer, but thanks to its V2 model, seems to be modifying the mining scene with Bitcoin Asic. To show a button: the V2 version was recently And already appears on the Asic list provided by Hashrate Index as one of the main mining teams of ranking in terms of profitability.

At the time of the wording, the Sealminer A2 Pro Hyd 500th, which came out in the middle of March, is able to generate up to USD 13.7 per day, and is only surpassed by three miners of the Antminer series (two of the S21 series and the U3S21Exph). This calculation was carried out taking as reference an electrical consumption of 0.06 USD/KWh.

In other words, the Bitmain Antminer, who have been dominating Bitcoin mining for several years, begin to have tangible competition by the Bitdeer ASIC. The consequences of this competition between Bitmain and Bitdeer are not minor, although their effects are still to be seen.

A priori, the Bitcoin industry benefits from a diversification of ASIC manufacturers, for the same reason that any industry benefits its supply and demand processes when there is a healthy corporate competition. It is usually believed that this raises the quality standards of products that come to the market, and urges companies to offer higher quality goods to consumers.

This diversity is expected to increase even more when Auradine, an ASIC manufacturer from the United States, advances with the mass delivery already a large scale of its Teraft series, in addition to creating new miners of greater efficiency. Block, the company that also creates ASIC in the United States, has still to achieve the mass production of its products, which would benefit the mining equipment market and consequently, to the Bitcoin network and its safety.

Bitmain and Bitdeer: separate twins after birth

The story of Bitdeer and its relationship with Bitmain, a titan in the manufacture of Bitcoin mining hardware, is a story that deserves to be told, since they are not only competing companies, but also had the same origin. As narrated by Kristian CSEPCSAR, executive of Braiuns in a recent thread in X, Bitdeer has deeply connected roots with Bitmain.

Bitmain, founded in 2013 by Jihan Wu and Micree Zhan, quickly consolidated itself as the undisputed leader in the manufacture of Bitcoin mining hardware, reaching about 80% of the market to date, which has left traces in any Bitcoin ASIC ranking, where the Antminer series predominates.

Its antminers have become, for better or worse, the industry standard, and the company generates colossal income. However, Bitmain’s stability was shaken in the late decade by internal tensions. By 2019, the founders WU and Zhan began to face in a power struggle that CSEPCSAR describes as «two roosters in the same corral.» This conflict culminated in 2021, when Jihan Wu left Bitmain, taking some assets of the company.

It was precisely this fracture Bitdeer was born, a «forkBitmain in « In Csepcsar’s words. Initially, Bitdeer focused on activities such as own mining, the lodging of cloud mining equipment and services, operating on a large scale.

In 2023, Bitdeer took a significant step by quoting in Nasdaq under the BTDR ticket, which allowed him to access new capital to finance ambitious projects. One of those projects was its entrance to the hardware market: in 2024, Bitdeer announced that it would begin to manufacture its own ASIC miners, including the development of specialized chips.

To do this, it acquired Desiwemin, a Chinese research and development team of ASIC for Bitcoin, already the end of that year promised to launch its flagship, the Sealminer A2, an important step in the company’s roadmap.

The Sealminer A2, with a 220–240 TH/SY hash.

Something striking of Bitdeer is that it has significant financial support: Tether, the company behind the USDT stableUSD 150 million invested in the company, acquiring about 25% of the sameas reported by The Miner Mag. Bitdeer’s entry into the hardware market, as CSEPCSAR highlights, has deep implications for Bitcoin mining. On the one hand, the decentralization of ASIC production, with Bitdeer by manufacturing in Vietnam (unlike Chinese Bitmain models), reduces risks associated with rates and commercial tensions. In other words, It helps to release international Bitcoin hardware trade.

A rugged start to compete with Bitmain

CSEPCSAR also warns about the pending challenges: the long -term reliability of the Sealminer A2 and Bitdeer’s ability to climb their production are yet to be tested.

Recall: nobody out of Bitdeer still has them working. Bitcoin miners have suffered failures before. Many times. So I strongly recommend caution. Buy some units. Let them work. Wait for machines to be tested in adverse conditions during enough time to climb. We still know very little about these machines or their software. And everything seems to go well in theory.

Kristian CSEPCSAR, Brains Executive.

The Executive complemented his words saying that Bitdeer has yet to show that he can make specific and mass shipments.

A bad start. Deliveries are already underway, but with a few weeks late. They also canceled their original Hydro unit and went directly to the Hydro «Pro» version, which should be sent in June. So, there were some initial operational setbacks. Caution is recommended

Kristian CSEPCSAR, Brains Executive.

As cryptootics reported, Bitdeer allocates its devices Sealminer to Minar Bitcoin and produce profitability Currently, this due to an alleged demand drop by the Bitcoin ASIC.

The uncertainty in the market product of the War of Rates, which seems to be partly overcome at this time, has led some Bitdeer clients to postpone the delivery of preordinate machines. This motivated the company to redirect those equipment to its own operations in countries such as Bután and Norway, where the company also maintains facilities, in addition to the US.

Bitdeer is postulated, then, not only as an ASIC manufacturer of Bitcoin, but as a company that obtains bitcoin rewards using its own mass production of mining equipment.