What is crypto mining machine? What are the types of mining machines?

Broadly speaking, mining machine can be any machine that can run mining programs, such as professional mining machine, home computer, smart phone, server, smart router, smart watch, smart TV, and so on. In a narrow sense, mining machine refers to professional mining devices, such as ASIC mining machine, GPU mining machine, and CDN mining machine.

·ASIC Mining Machine

ASIC mining machine refers to the mining machine with ASIC chips as the core computing components.

ASIC chips are designed for a specific purpose, not just for mining, but for a wider range of applications. ASIC chips are characterized by simple and efficient operation. Because of its concentrated hashrate and other characteristics, this type of mining machine can achieve higher computing speed with lower unit energy consumption.

·GPU Mining Machine

GPU mining machine, in simple explanation, is the cryptocurrency mining machine through GPU mining.

Bitcoin has been successively followed by other digital assets like Ethereum, Dasecoin, Litecoin and more, some of which use different algorithms than Bitcoin. After testing, it was found that cryptocurrencies with other algorithms, such as Scrypt, were most efficient at mining with GPU, leading to the creation of specialized GPU mining machines.

·CDN Mining Machine

The appearance of CDN mining machine is very different from that of ASIC and GPU mining machines, just like a router and a TV box. CDN mining machine mines not by contributing hashrate, but by contributing network bandwidth and storage space. In order to obtain the highest revenue ratio, CDN mining machine usually strengthens the storage space and reduces the power consumption of the whole machine.