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Title: Has anyone found a block with S9 or BMminer?
Post by: gt_addict on September 09, 2016, 11:08:58 AM
Hi everyone,

Just a curiousity question really. Since Bitmain have changed the GUI and developed their BMminer and not shared it in accordance with open source regulations, I was curious to know if anyone can confirm they have found a block with a miner running their version of software.


Title: Re: Has anyone found a block with S9 or BMminer?
Post by: Sierra8561 on September 09, 2016, 06:06:53 PM
I have found a block. It was a batch1 14th model.


Title: Re: Has anyone found a block with S9 or BMminer?
Post by: HagssFIN on September 09, 2016, 06:11:46 PM
It is after all a Cgminer with some modifications.
Some things to notice:
- it has some extra features for mining in Antpool
- it doesn't support Nicehash
- it violates the open-source license for Cgminer.



Title: Re: Has anyone found a block with S9 or BMminer?
Post by: gt_addict on September 09, 2016, 06:40:26 PM
Ok that's calmed my suspicions then. I just had a gut feeling that they may have done something "dodgy" seeing as they have changed it quite a bit.


Title: Re: Has anyone found a block with S9 or BMminer?
Post by: elokk on September 10, 2016, 01:04:07 AM
I also found a block on Kano with an earlier batch S9


Title: Re: Has anyone found a block with S9 or BMminer?
Post by: fvineyard on September 10, 2016, 04:22:16 AM
I have also found a block on CKPool with a batch 8 S9.


Title: Re: Has anyone found a block with S9 or BMminer?
Post by: Sierra8561 on September 10, 2016, 05:22:40 AM
Funny, we are all kano and ck


Title: Re: Has anyone found a block with S9 or BMminer?
Post by: Liquid71 on September 10, 2016, 06:05:48 PM
It is after all a Cgminer with some modifications.
Some things to notice:
- it has some extra features for mining in Antpool
- it doesn't support Nicehash
- it violates the open-source license for Cgminer.


Has Bitmain given any reason for the changes? I haven't had time to keep up on what's going on lately so that's the first I heard about the the changes, I'll search around for answers but thought I'd ask here first.


Title: Re: Has anyone found a block with S9 or BMminer?
Post by: kekman1337 on September 10, 2016, 10:49:26 PM
Funny, we are all kano and ck
Not surprising, most of the forum uses those two pools, and it just feels better to be mining on non-Chinese pools :)
Never found a block, although my LN(Yes, not an S9) did get a 130mil share a week ago. Never hit anything near that ever since, but it definitely felt good.


Title: Re: Has anyone found a block with S9 or BMminer?
Post by: HagssFIN on September 10, 2016, 10:52:36 PM
It is after all a Cgminer with some modifications.
Some things to notice:
- it has some extra features for mining in Antpool
- it doesn't support Nicehash
- it violates the open-source license for Cgminer.


Has Bitmain given any reason for the changes? I haven't had time to keep up on what's going on lately so that's the first I heard about the the changes, I'll search around for answers but thought I'd ask here first.
The changes are based on their own need most likely.


Title: Re: Has anyone found a block with S9 or BMminer?
Post by: wmabern on September 15, 2016, 01:10:32 AM
Yep, one of my S9's found a block. Don't remember the batch number for sure, but I'm guessing batch 3.
Also on Kano CKPool. :)