Each of the mini-USB rigs has two ASIC chips, so all in, the $875 rig has 20 chips. 'We have sold thousands, and when we get more, they run out quick,' he said.Ībada says that Missouri-based GekkoScience took apart a big miner from China and re-purposed the parts for the NewPac. One of the top sellers on Bitcoin Merch is the NewPac – the main component of the rig featured in Abada's viral TikTok video. Research firm Technavio expects the overall market for global crypto mining hardware to grow by $2.8 billion from 2020 to 2024. Abada says his business has grown exponentially in the last four years, as interest in crypto has ballooned.Ībada says Bitcoin Merch sales have hit $428,000 so far this year, up 355% from 2020. The company now offers customers all the hardware you would need to get into mining. 'At first, it was just me selling some cables and very basic equipment.' 'I noticed it was really hard to buy equipment for mining bitcoin, so I created ,' said Abada.
