Block has announced that Core Scientific, a publicly traded Bitcoin mining firm, will be the first buyer of its 3nm mining ASICs. The agreement will provide Core with 15 exahashes per second (EH/s) worth of chips, representing a 60% increase to the firm's hash rate. Block claims that its new mining platform will improve efficiency and reliability in large-scale mining operations.
The Celestia fire sparked widespread discussion about modular blockchains. In fact, modular blockchain has always been an important part of the application chain narrative and is not a new thing.