MicroBT, a leading innovator in the bitcoin mining industry, unveiled its latest WhatsMiner M6XS+ series during the bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville, Tennessee. The new series, which includes air-cooled, water-cooled, and immersion-cooled models, represents a major advancement in renewable mining technology.
Dr. Zuoxing Yang, founder and CEO of MicroBT, highlighted these advancements in his keynote address, emphasizing the company’s commitment to sustainable and efficient mining practices. Renewable mining, according to Dr. Yang, is the future of the industry, and solar mining is poised to be at the forefront. He predicted that by 2026, the cost of electricity for solar mining could fall to about 4 cents per kWh, which he said would remove the main impediment to the solar mining industry.
MicroBT’s solar mining technology has seen substantial advancements, including the successful 100kW pilot project. Dr. Yang announced the upcoming launch of the WhatsMiner solar mining container system and called on industry partners to join hands to promote excellence in solar-powered mining.
One of the new features of the WhatsMiner hydrocooled miner is its high water outlet temperature, which can now reach up to 80℃ (176℉). This allows for versatile heat usage, such as agricultural heating, regional heating, and power grid balancing. MicroBT’s hydrocooling technology aims to offer a reduced cooling source solution for mining, but also to improve its competitiveness in the renewable mining sector.
Dr. Yang also introduced the latest models of the WhatsMiner line:
- WhatsMiner M60S+ (air cooling): Hashrate up to 210 TH/s with a power efficiency of 17 J/T.
- WhatsMiner M63S+ (Hydrocooling): Hash rate up to 450 TH/s with energy efficiency of 17 J/T and outlet water temperature reaching 70℃ (158℉).
- WhatsMiner M64 (Hydrocooling): Hash rate up to 206 TH/s with energy efficiency of 19.9 J/T and outlet water temperature reaching 80℃ (176℉).
- WhatsMiner M66S+ (Immersion Cooling): Hashrate up to 318 TH/s with a power efficiency of 17 J/T.
Dr. Yang then promised that additional products and solutions will be launched in spring 2025.
Following Dr. Yang’s presentation, Wright Wang, MicroBT’s Director of Sales and Marketing, participated in a panel discussion with Ghazaleh Barman of Riot Platforms and Niek Beudeker of Peak Mining (part of Northern Data Group). The panel focused on collaboration from manufacturing to mining, with Wang noting that Riot hosts the world’s largest immersion cooling deployment and that Northern Data is primed for a large-scale hydrocooling deployment. In these operations, WhatsMiner products dominate.
