User:YiwenDong191919/sandbox

Draft of the bitmain article

https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/User:YiwenDong191919/Draft:Bitmain

Annotated Bibliography

https://shop.bitmain.com/

List of current bitmain products that they sell.

https://cryptomining-blog.com/1190-180-ghs-antminer-s1-vs-180-ghs-cloud-mining-contract/

This outlines the performance of the first antminer released by bitmain, antminer s1. Speed: 180GHS, Cost: 1.345BTC.

https://cryptomining-blog.com/1580-bitmain-antminer-s2-1-ths-miner-starts-shipping-in-april/

This outlines the perfomance of the second antminer released by bitmain, antmier s2. Speed: 1THS, Cost: 6.34BTC.

https://www.coindesk.com/a-multi-million-dollar-bet-ethereums-proof-of-stake-isnt-coming-soon/

Antminer s3. Speed: 478GHS, Cost: 0.75BTC.

https://web.archive.org/web/20141011063616/https://www.bitmaintech.com/productDetail.htm?pid=00020140926075515819D846Og240603

Antminer s4. Speed: 2THS, Cost: 3.427BTC.

... Insert more model of antminer here.

https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoins-new-controversy-asicboost-allegations-explained/

Explains how asicboost works and the possible harm of asicboost ranging from the centralization of mining use to some miner using technology that other miners don't have access to. Proposes possible solution for the problem such as Segwit2MB fork.

https://patents.google.com/patent/CN105245327A/en Optimizing method, device and circuit for Hash computing chip of bitcoin proof of work ASICBOOST pattent

https://blog.bitmain.com/en/regarding-recent-allegations-smear-campaigns/

Bitmain response to asicboost claim

https://cryptovest.com/news/bitmains-antpool-becomes-sponsor-of-nba-team-houston-rockets/

Antpool, a part of bitmain, is now sponsoring nba rocket team.

https://www.blockchain.com/pools?

Breakdown of biggest pools for mining. Bitmain ownes btc.com and antpool.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-26/crypto-billionaires-open-their-books-with-bitmain-ipo-filing

Outlines the recent announcement that bitmain is going public.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-05-17/china-s-crypto-chips-king-sets-his-sights-on-ai

Bitmain seeks to break into ai with new asic for computers to accelerate ai processing.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bitcoin-mining-pool-antpool-sponsor-000130692.html

Report on antpool sponsor rockets yahoo

Potential Section

• Introduction
• History
  • ASICBoost

In April of 2017, Bitmain released a blog post "Regarding Recent Allegations Smear Campaigns" responding to Gregory Maxwell's proposal. Bitmain claim to have only used ASICBOOST on testnet and never on mainnet. Bitmain however confirmed the existence of circuit design for ASICBOOST for their ASIC chips.

• • Involvement with BCH
  • IPO
  • Huston Rocket Sponsorship

On September 19th 2018, AntPool announced on facebook that it is going to be an official sponsor of the Houston Rockets for the 2018-2019 NBA season. This is part of AntPool's strategy to bring awareness to the cryptocurrency community and strengthen adoption rates by educating the public. According to Haijiao Li, AntPool's overseas operations manager.

As the cryptocurrency industry around the globe continues to evolve and develop, it is going to be more and more important for companies like AntPool to lead the conversation and conversion of consumers to adopt and understand digital currencies. It is an exciting time, and we welcome Rockets fans and those traveling to Houston to visit our showcase at Toyota Center and learn more about the technology that will change the world.

— Haijiao Li

• Products
  • SHA256/Bitcoin Miner

Bitmain released a duel blade Antminer S1 which can be bought on their website. It is cooled with a 12cm PWM fan and a custom heat sink according to the product description. It uses 32 of the Bitmain self designed BM1380. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/01/17/ten_bitcoin_miners/ https://web.archive.org/web/20140326112246/https://www.bitmaintech.com/productDetail.htm?pid=00020140107162747992Ce5uBuxW06D6 https://web.archive.org/web/20140704171232/https://www.bitmaintech.com/productDetail.htm?pid=00020140429083756017VwGm90Xx06B5 https://web.archive.org/web/20150513081537/https://www.bitmaintech.com/productDetail.htm?pid=00020140917060843699l3bEXYxL06C0 https://web.archive.org/web/20141009041433/https://www.bitmaintech.com/productDetail.htm?pid=00020140926075515819D846Og240603 https://web.archive.org/web/20150513082726/https://www.bitmaintech.com/productDetail.htm?pid=000201412231604153619o9X1obn0693 https://web.archive.org/web/20150926160502/https://www.bitmaintech.com/productDetail.htm?pid=0002015081407532655504JMKzsM067B https://web.archive.org/web/20150920015733/https://www.bitmaintech.com/productDetail.htm?pid=00020150827084021471OHYdwd9D06A0 https://web.archive.org/web/20160531154446/https://www.bitmaintech.com/productDetail.htm?pid=0002016052907243375530DcJIoK0654 https://web.archive.org/web/20141010235612/https://www.bitmaintech.com/productDetail.htm?pid=000201401071629535717ycyGoWo06FE https://web.archive.org/web/20140704225640/https://www.bitmaintech.com/productDetail.htm?pid=00020140227111546291QgbvQbVr06FB https://web.archive.org/web/20150214085016/https://www.bitmaintech.com/productDetail.htm?pid=00020150109104550452NTD3NdYY0669

Name	GH/s	Watts	Price	Connection
Antminer S1	180	360	0.903 BTC	Ethernet
Antminer S2	1000	1100	1715 USD	Ethernet
Antminer S3	453	355	137 USD	Ethernet
Antminer S4	2000	1400	1250 USD	Ethernet
Antminer S5	1155	590	370 USD	Ethernet
Antminer S5+	7722	3436	2307 USD	Ethernet
Antminer S7	4860	1210	1823 USD	Ethernet
Antminer S9	14000	1400	2100 USD	Ethernet
Antminer U1	1.6	2	18 BTC	USB
Antminer U2+	2	2	10.8 BTC	USB
Antminer U3	63	53	38 USD	USB

• • Script/Litecoin Miner
  • X11/Dash Miner
  • Blake(2b) Miner
  • CryptoNight Miner
  • Ethash Miner
  • Equihash Miner
  • Blake(14r) Miner
• BTC.com
• Antpool
• Competition

Article evaluation (Operational transformation)

The history section seems lacking and vague "Several years later, some correctness issues were identified and several approaches were independently proposed to solve these issues, which was followed by another decade of continuous efforts of extending and improving OT by a community of dedicated researchers."

The cc model seems to be lacking in detail and the csm model seems to lack completely the explanation why it was developed.

There should be a section that have some products that uses different operational transformation models.

Most of the citation used research papers on the topic.

Citation 15 is marked as a permanent dead link.

Citation 35 is a dead link as ShareJS is renamed to ShareDB. It is also used to quote a personal opinion.

Citation 35 and 36 are both opinions from researchers that researched alternative tech so there might be biases for their opinion on OT. At least direct quote is used, but does not mention the author's involvement or background.

Behind the scenes, there were arguments on how much criticism to include in the article and how valid those are. There seem to be differing opinion on such topics.

Microsoft groove also threw a curve ball in their approch to the problem that is slightly different then OT.

It is also hard to describe the problem in easier terms.

This is a B class article and is a part of WikiProject Computer science.

It seems like most of the discussion are on the criticism and not much talk at all on the other sections of the page.

Article selection (Persistent object store)

The article is lacking in information. Could use a history section, examples, pro and cons, comparisons with other stores. There needs to be information on development and changes that happened. There's not many sources of information.

There's only one citation that cites the paper that came up with this idea. Not a good source. Need more secondary sources.

Most of the first part of the article does not have citation.

https://docs.archive.mulesoft.com/mule-user-guide/v/3.4/mule-object-stores

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=135872

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/jboss_enterprise_application_platform/4.3/html/transactions_programmers_guide/persistent_object_stores

Article selection (NiceHash)

Can use history and news section. There's not much information on the breach that happened. Can talk about payout and the difference between internal and external wallets. There have been blog posts from nicehash about how the internals of nicehash is and can be added to the page.

Most of the citations on the site is about the breach and there's much much information and or news otherwise. There can be a section on how the program works with interface direction, mining output examples.

List different mining algo supported by nicehash. separated by gpu and cpu algo.

https://www.tweaktown.com/guides/8458/guide-nicehash-mine-cryptocurrency/index.html

https://www.nicehash.com/news/nicehash-will-fully-reimburse-its-users

https://www.nicehash.com/news/change-in-withdrawal-fee-feb

https://www.facebook.com/NiceHash/videos/2013146182237851/

Article Selection (Mmap)

The example here is really bad at explaining what mmap does and how to use it. There can be more technecial talk about how mmap works and what makes it different from using malloc. There can be further discussion on uses of mmap and why it is introduced and why it is necessary. There can be example code that uses different aspects of the uses of mmap.

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/linux-system-programming/0596009585/ch04s03.html

https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6390

Differential synchronization

Past research for Nicehash

Forbes

Overviews the process to setup and start mining using Nicehash. Outlines the pros and cons for using computer for mining. Also states the difference between Nicehash legacy and Nicehash 2.0. It also contains tips on how to tune the graphics card for better profitability.

Nicehash about page

The nicehash about page outlines the general model nicehash uses to generate profit by selling hash power to buyers and buying hash power from people running miners in their home. The transactions are dealt with using bitcoin.There's also statics about the site on that page. Though unsure of reliabality.

Nicehash buyer page

The nicehash buyer page contains a list of algorithms supported by nicehash and some policy for the buyers. This is important information for people considering to buy hash power from nicehash. It also shows the amount of hashpower available for certain algorithms.

Nicehash payout page

This provides the chart for when payments are sent out for the seller. Different types of wallet and different payment schedule with different minimal payout. It also layout the fee policy and different sources the withdrawal can be drawn to. The fact they use a PPS system is also mentioned on that page.

usethebitcoin.com

Provides an alternative for nicehash with honeyminer. The site suggests it as a more secure alternative. The site claims honeyminer is comparable with many different options for users to withdrawn their mined coins.

CNBC nicehash hack news

Provides an overview of the nicehash hack, the amount of coin lost and the amount of usd that is equivalent to. It also embeds the tweeter tweets that nicehash gave out to update the users with timestamps.

Ninth reimbursement of the Repayment program

Talks about the last repayment program and how it have payed back 67% of all the stolen btc from the hack.

HowToGeek: Can You Really Make Money Mining Bitcoin With Your Gaming PC?

Talks about the math behind nicehash calculator and how one can use it to determinate if they can remain profitable using their computer for mining with nicehash. Explains the optimistic nature of the nicehash calculator and it is better to use the one day estimate rather than the monthly one.