Bitmain Releases Patch to Let Bitcoin Miners Activate ‘Overt AsicBoost’

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Cryptocurrency mining giant Bitmain has published a firmware update that allows bitcoin miners to activate “overt AsicBoost,” a technological upgrade that provides significant cost savings over conventional mining setups.

Bitmain Firmware Enables Overt AsicBoost

Bitmain released the patch just days after braiins, the software development group that operates Slush Pool, revealed that it had verified that Bitmain’s Antminer S9 hardware is capable of supporting overt AsicBoost, though the manufacturer had purposely disabled it by default. The group further stated that it would integrate overt AsicBoost support into a future firmware update for Braiins OS, the open-source ASIC mining system it launched in September.

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