FutureBit Apollo III miner makes its offline retail debut, available at four Micro Center locations

According to Bitcoin Magazine, Brooklyn-based consumer-grade Bitcoin miner manufacturer FutureBit announced that the Apollo III Full Node will go on sale this Friday at four Micro Center locations, marking the company's first entry into offline retail channels. The stores are located in Brooklyn, Miami, Tustin in California, and Austin in Texas, with the Austin store being the 31st Micro Center location in the United States. Consumers can also reserve online and pick up in-store; FutureBit has not disclosed the inventory and retail pricing for each store.

According to FutureBit's official website, the Apollo III Full Node without a hard drive is priced at $1,099.99, while the versions with 1 TB and 2 TB SSDs are priced at $1,299.99 and $1,399.99, respectively. The Standard version for mining starts at $899.99. The machine's Turbo mode has a maximum hash rate of about 18 TH/s and a power consumption of about 325 watts; Eco mode has about 12 TH/s, 150 watts, and noise below 35 decibels; Super Eco mode has about 8 TH/s and 80 watts. The entire unit is a 6.5×6.5×6 inch cube, weighs 6.5 pounds, uses a 3-nanometer chip designed in the United States with 8 GB of memory, has a built-in independent mining pool, is assembled in the United States, and comes with a one-year limited warranty.

FutureBit founder John Stefanopoulos stated that in the early days of the company, they would purchase parts weekly from the DIY electronics section of the Brooklyn Micro Center, and now consumers can walk into the same store to learn about Bitcoin mining and take home a miner on the spot. FutureBit has been developing consumer-grade miners since 2015. Bitcoin Magazine previously reported that on October 26, a user mined block 973262 using FutureBit's Apollo Solo solution, receiving a block reward of 3.154 Bitcoins.