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What is an ASIC miner and how does it work?

An ASIC (Application-Specific Integrated Circuit) miner is hardware built exclusively to perform one task: running a cryptographic hash function as fast and efficiently as possible. For Bitcoin, that function is SHA-256. The miner takes a block header as input, adds a random nonce, hashes the result, and checks whether the output meets the network's difficulty target. It does this billions of times per second. Because it's designed for one job only, an ASIC is 10,000–100,000× more efficient at mining than a GPU or CPU. Leading manufacturers include Bitmain (Antminer), MicroBT (Whatsminer), and IceRiver.