If you are in the US, is it possible to pay the driver on delivery with cash or personal check? I've made a UPS account and entered payment details, but I see no way to assign the shipping invoice to my account for online payment.
Delivery drivers in the US won't take cash. And I am sure they won't take personal checks either. I have been shipping since the 1980s. C.O.D. used to be a popular option but went away a long time ago. Driver's didn't want the responsibility and the risks. You should find your local UPS office and try to pay there. Might be able to pay at a UPS store. UPS drivers take checks. They can't take credit cards in person, but they can if you call the dispatch office. EDIT: for customs fees. Not sure about COD, but I assume they can as well if they knock on your door (if they take it on the truck for delivery they have to be able to accept payment somehow). |
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Get used to it, at least as long as we have this administration. This is what a trade war looks like.
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If NiceHash isn't working - I think I could point to the MiningPoolHub equihash autoswitching port (17023), set my autoexchange preference to BTC... and end up with the same thing? It should mine the most profitable equihash coin MPH supports (ZCL/BTG/ZEC/ZEN) and keep slowly converting it to Bitcoin?
Should or does? Do these asics come with setup instructions? My first asic is delivered tomorrow. From what I have read, I connect it to the ethernet cable, plug it in, then go to my router address to access the miner setup gui and from there enter pool info. Am I missing anything? If miningpoolhub is working well then I guess that is where I will point my miner. Heh, you're in for a treat. Yup, very, very basic instructions are included. But yes, you basically just change the pool info (and your password). It'll be set to Antpool addresses when it arrives. Yeah, I expect the instructions will be the finest technical document known to man. Seems pretty simple. I know my router address, but unsure of how exactly to access the asic. Is it a web page or a downloaded GUI program to update settings, pool address, etc. Find it on the network and just enter the local url in a browser. They run on DHCP so it'll be in whatever range your router sets up. |
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Next shipment seems to be going out. Got a shipment email but only for a PSU, hopefully the miner will ship soon.
Same here: I was so happy to get an email from Bitmain about delivery... but then I read it... APW3++ Shipped Qty = 1 Z9 Mini Shipped Qty = 0  Someone in China is messing with me  They do that. Gone through it a couple times; not a problem anymore since the older miners aren't worth running, so I have enough psus to go around. Or order only miners and use HP PSUs with breakout boards instead. Why would I do that? I said I already have plenty. |
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If NiceHash isn't working - I think I could point to the MiningPoolHub equihash autoswitching port (17023), set my autoexchange preference to BTC... and end up with the same thing? It should mine the most profitable equihash coin MPH supports (ZCL/BTG/ZEC/ZEN) and keep slowly converting it to Bitcoin?
Should or does? Do these asics come with setup instructions? My first asic is delivered tomorrow. From what I have read, I connect it to the ethernet cable, plug it in, then go to my router address to access the miner setup gui and from there enter pool info. Am I missing anything? If miningpoolhub is working well then I guess that is where I will point my miner. Heh, you're in for a treat. Yup, very, very basic instructions are included. But yes, you basically just change the pool info (and your password). It'll be set to Antpool addresses when it arrives. |
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Next shipment seems to be going out. Got a shipment email but only for a PSU, hopefully the miner will ship soon.
Same here: I was so happy to get an email from Bitmain about delivery... but then I read it... APW3++ Shipped Qty = 1 Z9 Mini Shipped Qty = 0 Someone in China is messing with me They do that. Gone through it a couple times; not a problem anymore since the older miners aren't worth running, so I have enough psus to go around. |
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My Z9 Mini is on the Way now Is Nicehash still working bad and are any mining pools for ZCL available? Zero change in Nicehash as of last Friday. Others may have had more luck, but no dice here, still averaging 50%+ rejected... And hmm. Nobody DID do any ZCL testing (or reporting at any rate). Hmm. I'm sure we'll have some more feedback soon, but I'll add the coin to the testing section (I avoid it like the plague, personally, too many wallet issues, so I haven't tried). |
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Any updates with Slush?
None yet, I haven't had any time to do any testing the past week or so, apologies for that. I'm sure we'll see a bunch tomorrow and friday as the rest of batch 1 arrives though.  |
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What's going on with payments from the official pool? Was paying out regularly last week, but the past 2-3 days all funds are listed as immature or in my balance, no payments have gone out since June 10th (wasn't on the pool that whole time, but since coming back several days ago I haven't received any coin in my wallet). Wallet addy is correct, using the online wallet.
Official pool takes 100 confs to pay, but thats like 12-15 hours not 1 month... Join our telegram, its way easier to help you there https://t.me/bitcoininterestThat link doesn't seem to work, tried the one on the pool too; I just get an error about urls starting with tg. And haha, no, not a month, a few days, it's only the 20th. But still, way more than 12-15 hours, all the immature earnings are now regular balance under my wallet addy in the pool itself (pulled my miner off the pool until this resolves), but it's not paying it to my wallet. Telegram link works fine, just tested it. Give your wallet address. Thought it might be a Safari thing, so I tried it with Firefox, got the same error. Weird. *shrug* Address is below, thanks for checking into it! iRzortGuiBPzjYJw1UMpcEMm1GCg1eLMkD |
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At least yours works. Mine burned out the controller card two weeks ago; finally got the replacement today and it burned out within three minutes. Have another ticket open with them, but considering that I got maybe two weeks of mining in and, now with cards doing those numbers, it's probably barely profitable to even run it once I finally get it working again? Without some kind of fix or remuneration on the part of Bitmain to remedy the situation, I won't be ordering from them again.
(And this isn't longterm forum bitterness or newbie anger, I am generally neutral to actually defending Bitmain in discussions, and this is the 7th antminer I've bought, and the 5th direct from them)
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What's going on with payments from the official pool? Was paying out regularly last week, but the past 2-3 days all funds are listed as immature or in my balance, no payments have gone out since June 10th (wasn't on the pool that whole time, but since coming back several days ago I haven't received any coin in my wallet). Wallet addy is correct, using the online wallet.
Official pool takes 100 confs to pay, but thats like 12-15 hours not 1 month... Join our telegram, its way easier to help you there https://t.me/bitcoininterestThat link doesn't seem to work, tried the one on the pool too; I just get an error about urls starting with tg. And haha, no, not a month, a few days, it's only the 20th. But still, way more than 12-15 hours, all the immature earnings are now regular balance under my wallet addy in the pool itself (pulled my miner off the pool until this resolves), but it's not paying it to my wallet. |
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When will our refunds come through for spending $2000 on these $850 miners!!!!
You will earn more than the difference in the time between the batches, especially if you OC. Not really. It still doesn't make much sense to screw over batch 1 investors. Here's the math behind it: $2000-$850 = $1150 <- total difference that you need to make up Estimated profits (ASIC is OC-ed to 15k sols, conservative) 1st week of mining: $30 per day * 7 days = $210 2nd week of mining: $25 per day * 7 days = $175 3rd week of mining: $20 per day * 7 days = $140 4th week of mining: $15 per day * 7 days = $105 5th week of mining: $12.5 per day * 7 days = $87.5 6th week of mining: $10 per day * 7 days = $70 7th week of mining: $8 per day * 7 days = $56 + 8th week of mining: $6 per day * 7 days = $42 ----------------------------------------------------------- Total value mined after 8 weeks (2 months = equal time to receive new batch orders which only cost $850 per Z9 ASIC) = $885.5You would have earned more if you just waited and bought the $850 version. To be specific you would have $300 ($1150-850) more if you simply buy the latest batch. Fu bitmain. Your math is speculative and, in my experience, inaccurate. There tends to be a far more gradual slope once a batch is shipped with big dropoffs when a new batch is delivered (or a competitor's hits the market). I really don't think it'll be down to $12 by week 5, though a lot of external factors are involved in trying to determine that (coins forking, gpus switching algos, increase/decrease in coin value, etc). Also if the trend you outlined continues, which if it was accurate there is no reason to think it wouldn't, your point is incorrect. You will not earn more with the second batch, you will merely lose less. Which is a pretty important distinction, especially as coins are traded/increase and decrease in value. None of that is defending Bitmain's handling of the Z9 shipments, mind you, just pointing out bad math. |
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What's going on with payments from the official pool? Was paying out regularly last week, but the past 2-3 days all funds are listed as immature or in my balance, no payments have gone out since June 10th (wasn't on the pool that whole time, but since coming back several days ago I haven't received any coin in my wallet). Wallet addy is correct, using the online wallet.
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hey guys one quick question
how is your $2 per day doorstopper doing?
Everyone who bought the ASIC know what the real situation and returns are like. People learn from experience. Sure there are some members who just piggyback on pro ASIC statement, resort to abuses and think GPU rigs do $2 but we don't need to incite people now do we? Just hit ignore on both of them. Neither are paying attention to anyone and they're just repeating the same crap over and over again. Not contributing, they're just trolling. |
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Pretty off topic, but no. It looks like maybe the reporting site is wrong, either that or Nanopool is currently close to 70% of the hashrate... Okay, thanks. I'm deleting my post now. Actually I deleted mine because I read the Nano page wrong (T, not G). So then actually no idea whatsoever, that could be spot on. Maybe some API issue or something? My rigs seem to still be running ok... |
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Newer gpus are coming with 40% more hashes and bitmain knows that and is the reason why bitmain is also selling this to clear inventory for stronger eth asics in their warehouses and better sell now than lose it all when newer gpus are here, this asic is noweher competitive at this price range, now if it was around $400 then it would be.
It was competitive at the original $800 asking, actually. If you price out the same hashrate and power consumption (or slightly better, really), it'll cost you more than $800. At it's current price though? 100% agree, build a GPU rig which will likely cost less (unless you buy overpriced new parts across the board), will be more energy efficient once tweaked, and will likely supply a slightly higher hashrate, BUT you can mine a ton of other things as well. It's a no brainer, really. But at $800? If I hadn't already had rigs up and running when they released it, I would have at the VERY least considered it... |
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Apparently you never worked with some of the same people as I have before. LOL
Yeah my history shows a guy with a laundry exhaust but won’t show the machine he is testing ... only the heat signature.
no, I work with competent and trustworthy individuals. We don't even get a heat signature... by your broken analogy. Look I am not saying it isn’t a scam nor is it ... just like in penny stocks you don’t ever spend what you can’t afford in the first place. Always do your own DD and take responsibility for your own actions too. What would happen if everyone was cheering on someone who is reputable and it still turned out to be a scam do I blame all those saying it wasn’t just because a reputable person put their signature on it or do I blame myself if I had a gut feeling and didn’t listen to it. At least in penny stocks you still bought something and received something. hahaha ... so you would think then all of a sudden your life comes crashing down on two scenarios of price plummeting or the SEC suspending it indefinitely and your money is locked away worth no value. But believe what you want if you think buying penny stocks are any safer. 😉 Yeah, most penny stocks that crash get removed from the exchange and unless you got them to issue you paper stocks (which I'm not even sure is legal anymore), you didn't buy anything other than wasted hope. Like a lottery ticket. |
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Is pool support improved by Bitmain (new software for the control board) or by the pool operators (tuning stratum dynamic difficulty to handle Z9 Mini hash rates)? I'm hopefully in the next batch, and would love to just point to NiceHash beside my GPUs - but it sounds like it's busted?
I'm pretty sure it's on the pool end. Which is to say, there MAY be some minor adjustments Bitmain could make to the firmware, but they won't. I don't think it's a problem on the pool end, mind you, like they did something wrong, just some weird incompatibility with some pools for some reason. That said, it seems that most pools are either fixed or users are figuring out fixes (which ports, difficulties, etc), as there are way more in the working column than there were. |
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When batch-one went up for sale I believe WTM said $40/day. It's now 5 weeks later and closer to $30/day. By the time most of batch-one gets tossed in the mail in 3 weeks it could be closer to $25/day? That would put ROI between 3-4 months. Even if batch-two arrived in Sept at around $15/day that would still be about 3x what GPUs pay-out at 300w - so batch-two could ROI in 2018. But that's a complete guess on the daily returns, and is assuming ZEN+ZEC are both still around by the end year to prop up the current Equihash algo. Cross your fingers! So far I believe Komodo is the only one who has said they're definitely not forking. |
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