New Report: Crypto-Currency Impact on AIBs

Supplement to Q3’17 Market Watch Jon Peddie Research estimates that Crypto-currency mining accounts for $1.05 billion dollars in AIB revenue since Q1’15, and accounts for sales of 4.6 million AIBs.   Ethereum and Bitcoin, are among the best known crypto currencies but many more have appeared in the market. Some have already come and gone. Bitcoin arrived in 2009 and set off the first wave of the cryto-currency bubble. In its early days Bitcoin mining was performed by enthusiasts using banks of graphics boards. As the field became more professional, custom FGPAs and ASICs were designed for the task and the