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Jeff Garzik

Born 1974

Early Bitcoin Core developer and former Red Hat engineer. On January 30, 2013, he became the first person to receive a commercial Bitcoin ASIC miner — Canaan's Avalon — validating the ASIC mining era.

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January 1, 2013HardwareLegendary

ASIC Mining Era Begins

Purpose-built ASIC miners replace GPUs and FPGAs.

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