What Is Moore's Law and How Does It Relate to ASIC Obsolescence? ⎊ Path

What Is Moore’s Law and How Does It Relate to ASIC Obsolescence?

Moore's Law is the observation that the number of transistors on a microchip doubles approximately every two years, leading to exponential increases in computing power and efficiency. In mining, this translates directly to ASIC obsolescence.

New ASICs released every 12-24 months are significantly more efficient than their predecessors, rapidly devaluing older hardware and forcing miners into a constant upgrade cycle to remain competitive.

How Does the Efficiency of a Miner’s Hardware (ASIC Vs GPU) Affect Their Breakeven Point?

How Does the “Moore’s Law” Principle Affect the Required Energy Efficiency of Mining Hardware?

Why Do Older Contracts Still Need to Be Audited for Integer Vulnerabilities?

How Can a Miner Use a Forward Contract to Lock in the Future Sale Price of Their Hardware?

What Is the Relationship between the ‘Power Efficiency’ of an ASIC and Its Longevity?

What Is a “Short Squeeze” and How Does It Happen in Crypto Markets?

Why Is Hardware Depreciation a Significant Factor in Calculating Mining Profitability?

What Is Metcalfe’s Law and How Is It Applied to Network Valuation?

Glossar

ASIC

Architecture ⎊ Application-Specific Integrated Circuits represent a fundamental shift in computational hardware within the cryptocurrency ecosystem, diverging from the general-purpose nature of CPUs and GPUs to offer substantial gains in hash rate efficiency for specific cryptographic algorithms.

Moore's Law

Prediction ⎊ Moore's Law, originally an observation predicting the doubling of transistors on a microchip approximately every two years, serves as a foundational concept for forecasting the relentless increase in computational power relevant to crypto markets.