Differences Between Control Board Variations on Antminer X19’s
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Illegal Firmware (GPL Violations)
In this article, we’ll do the best thing we can: explain to you what our engineering team has explained to us about what these different control board variations are and why the development process is so time consuming.
The majority of mining machines and the miners running non-compliant firmware on them are in violation of the CGminer GPL and subject to lawsuits. It’s a black mark on the mining industry and one that will only fade away if miners—the purchasers of mining hardware and users of firmware—demand it.