Bitmain’s Antminer E3 to Continue Mining Ether With New Update
Specifically, Antminer E3’s new firmware addresses a problem with directed acyclic graph (DAG) files, which was first reported by altcoin mining pool 2Miners in February 2020. According to 2Miners, DAG growth was the primary reason for limiting the capability of Antminer E3s for mining Ether and Ethereum Classic (ETC) due to limited memory capacity.
While Bitmain subsequently confirmed the DAG growth problem, stating that its double date rate (DDR) memory was approaching the limit of 4GB, 2Miners calculated that Antminer E3 would stop Ether mining roughly on April 8, 2020. Bitmain’s firmware addresses DAG growth issue directly
However, Antminer E3’s lifespan has now been extended with the new firmware that addresses the DAG problem directly.
