Mining one of the most difficult and lucrative way of getting cryptocurrencies has been around since the inception of Bitcoin. Dash(Digital cash) also has had this functionality but has generally been done locally by individuals in different ways. Due to its complexity this will be the first time a Dash miner would be sold in commercial quantities or public.

To express how impossible it looked on the mining page on dash.org, Dash expressed how difficult it would be for a miner to be developed for the cryptocurrency by saying:

"Dash uses a special algorithm called X11 for the proof of work. X11 is one of the innovations introduced by Dash and has been widely adopted in the cryptocurrency community since its launch.

Dash can currently be mined both with GPUs and CPUs (mining hardware comparison here). The characteristics of X11 make it very unlikely that ASICs will be developed to mine it, at least in the short term."

But crosing all these hurdles is a consortium of high tech companies based in China called Tiannengbo Group who have manufactured the worlds first X11 ASIC chip and the 1st Dash ASIC miner - “iBelink DM384M. A highly integrated Dash miner the iBeLink DM384M contains 4 hashing blades and a Raspberry Pi B+. Each hashing blade contains 48 TNB0301 ASIC chips, and can be managed (or controlled) for mining separately.

Designed for both forr large scale mining and home mining the iBeLink DM384M will have to be connected to a power cable and an Ethernet cable to set it up. Here are the specifications and the features of the miner fro its official website.

Specifications:

Hash Rate: 384 MH/s  ±10%
Power Consumption: 715 W (at the wall, with 25C ambient temp)
Power Efficiency: 1.8 J/MH (at the wall, with 25°C ambient temp)
Number of TNB0301 chips per unit: 192
Operating Temperature: 0 °C to 40 °C
Network Connection: Ethernet
Power Supply: 110V to 240V, 50Hz/60Hz
Certifications: FC, CE
Dimensions: 490mm(L)*350mm(W)*180mm(H)
Weight: 21 kg
Download Specification and User Manual

Features:

High integration for Plug and play (just need to connect power and Ethernet)
Contains 4 hashing blades, LED for each blade’s status
Faulty conditions self-detection and auto restart
Email warning for abnormal hashing conditions
Faulty chip detection
Possible DIY repairing faulty hashing boards (modulated hashing board, 8 boards/blade)
DIY reducing fan speed(or noise) by selecting low voltage power (reduced hash rate)

TNB0301 ASIC Specification:

Package Type: QFN64 8mm*8mm
I/O Interface: Serial with clock & data
Hash Rate: 2Mhash/s
Power Consumption: 1.8J/Mhash


With an estimated profit of about $1,8944 with the Dash price renaming above $3.5 and below $4.00( which it has crossed) annually and a price of $2,098.00 it might not look like a lucrative deal but the increase of prices this figure may go up or go down.

The initial schedule to sell the first batch of 50 iBeLink DM384M at www.dualminer.com very soon at a price of $2,098 and a 90 day warranty. Follow @dashpaymagazine