The American blockchain hosting company, Core Scientific, has signed a deal to purchase the next-generation Bitcoin mining machinery (BTC) from the major Chinese Bitmain mining equipment company.

According to Queen Telegraph, Core will purchase more than 17,000 devices (Intemer S19) from Bitmain on behalf of its customers and for its own use.

This is the largest number of S19 devices that have been purchased by one blockchain hosting company, according to Core Scientific.

Kevin Turner, former CEO and CEO of Core and Operations Director of Microsoft Corporation, said: Core Scientific has received its first ASIC chip mining mining test and started testing it, and has experienced success Significant increase in the current hash rate to achieve 110 TB / s 3%.

The deal comes as Texas begins to attract a number of mining facilities. Last October, Bitmain opened the world's largest Bitcoin mining facility in Rockdale, Texas.

In January, it was reported that SBI and GMO, two Japanese companies linked to the Blockchain, had entered into an agreement with the Winston subsidiary of Northern Bitcoin AG To process cryptocurrency transactions at their facilities in Brookdale.