FutureBit’s Apollo III Bitcoin Miner Hits Micro Center Shelves in Its First Brick-and-Mortar Launch

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FutureBit’s Apollo III Bitcoin Miner Hits Micro Center Shelves in Its First Brick-and-Mortar Launch, according to Bitcoin Magazine. Bitcoin Magazine The Brooklyn company's compact home miner, rated at up to 18 TH/s and starting at $1,099.99, goes on sale Friday at four Micro Center stores, including the chain's new Austin location. Bitcoin Magazine FutureBit is putting its Apollo III Full Node on sale Friday at four Micro Center stores, the first time customers can walk into a shop and take home one of the Brooklyn company’s bitcoin miners.

The compact home miner, which also runs a full bitcoin node, will be sold in Brooklyn, Miami, Tustin, California, and Austin, Texas, as those stores open Friday, FutureBit said in a release. The four-store launch coincides with the grand opening of Micro Center’s new Austin store, the chain’s 31st U.S.

Customers will also be able to reserve a unit online for in-store pickup, the company said. It did not say how many units each store has in stock, or what Micro Center is charging for them.

Until now, buyers in North America had to order the machine from FutureBit’s website, where the company says units are in stock and ship in two to three days. Putting it on a computer-store shelf lets a customer look at the hardware, ask how it works and carry it out the same day.

A 6-inch miner that also runs a full node FutureBit’s own shop lists the Apollo III Full Node at $1,099.99 without a storage drive, $1,299.99 with 1 terabyte of SSD storage and $1,399.99 with 2 terabytes. A cheaper, miner-only “Standard” model starts at $899.99 but does not include the full node. The Full Node is rated at up to 18 terahashes per second in Turbo mode, at about 325 watts.