https://f0o.dev/tags/datacenter/ Recent content in Datacenter on Daniel 'f0o' Preussker Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Fri, 02 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://f0o.dev/posts/2021/07/how-i-built-one-of-the-largest-multicoin-mining-pools-in-early-2010s/ Fri, 02 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://f0o.dev/posts/2021/07/how-i-built-one-of-the-largest-multicoin-mining-pools-in-early-2010s/ <p>Some of you might actually know this story - after all, I&rsquo;m not very secretive about it.</p> <p>So this was around 2011-2012; The S-Crypt Boom hasn&rsquo;t yet fully started and ASICs weren&rsquo;t mainstream.</p> <p>My friend managed to be on the shortlist of some S-Crypt ASICs, the first of it&rsquo;s kind actually, to be shipped to us in Europe directly from the factory.</p> <p>This was big news as the ASICs were far superior from any CPU/GPU mining back then, obviously.</p>