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Wow 2100 watts to power that thing.
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It's fairly certain that Bitmain has been mining XMR with it's own asics for quite some time seeing as so much hash rate dropped off as soon as they switched algorithms. It is only after they announced that they are going to sell the miner to the public that XMR and all the other cn coins decided that they would fork to switch algos. I assume that they mined for a few months raking in the profits as much as they could. Everybody talks about forking to stop the Bitmain insanity but the truth is we don't know how many asics they have in their hands already mining different algos and what they have in development. I don't think forking a coin after Bitmain announces the asic is really doing much to stop them. They will simply make their miners and just mine on their own quietly and reap in all the profits. I'm too lazy to do the math but I'm wondering how much Bitmain could have made if they didn't offer the X3 for sale to the public. I'm guessing in a short amount of time they would've made more than what they're selling them for. I'm not sure if Bitmain announced theirs first or if Dragon Mint announced theirs first. Most of us here believe that they mine with new asics first before selling to the public. I think once word and rumors start to spread about what asics each company has starts to leak out then they announce the sales to the public which now creates the urge for people to fork and change the algo but the fact of the matter is that the asic companies probably already had more than 33% of the hash rate.
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Man those things are huge. |
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If i had a 420 coupon, i would probably get one if Zcash is not going to fork.
Yeah same here. I think I would pick one up if I had a $300+ coupon. |
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for those of you in the US, are you opting for UPS or DHL shipping method? DHL is cheaper but i'm a little worried about the disclaimer:
Generally, shipping with DHL takes 3-5 days. However, spot custom checks can lead to delays of up to 2 weeks. You will have 7 days to process customs clearance upon arrival in your country. If no action is taken, miners will be returned to the sender and extra costs will have to be covered by the customer.
which is the preferred shipping method in ur experience?
I used to use UPS all the time but the last few times I used UPS each time they nagged me about paying additional customs fees. So my last order I switched to DHL. I think it took an extra day to get here but who knows which batch they will decide to inspect at customs for two weeks. |
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I was mining ZEN but switched to Prohashing.com and convert Script, X11, SHA256 and Equihash to BTC, Zen and a few more coins. I think this is the best strategy for now suitable for my group, leveraging BTC current value and accumulate key alts while there are still cheap.
Do you have any Avalon miners pointed at Prohashing? I couldn't for the life of me to get them to work with a space in the password field. They would never start hashing. If I just put a=sha-256 in the password field it mines fine. But if I put in a=sha-256 n=avalon it would never start mining. Anything with a space in the password field makes it choke. I even tried to put it in quotes with no luck. yeah.... a=sha-256 only at the pwd field ~ according to the Sokolowski brothers who runs PH, the backend is quite complex and for now their priority to get SHA-256 mining stable first. That's what I thought. Makes tracking miners harder, but oh well. Thanks for the confirmation. |
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It's a shame they charge so much extra to use crypto otherwise I might have picked one up but it also looks like it's sold out now too. Oh well. |
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I was mining ZEN but switched to Prohashing.com and convert Script, X11, SHA256 and Equihash to BTC, Zen and a few more coins. I think this is the best strategy for now suitable for my group, leveraging BTC current value and accumulate key alts while there are still cheap.
Do you have any Avalon miners pointed at Prohashing? I couldn't for the life of me to get them to work with a space in the password field. They would never start hashing. If I just put a=sha-256 in the password field it mines fine. But if I put in a=sha-256 n=avalon it would never start mining. Anything with a space in the password field makes it choke. I even tried to put it in quotes with no luck. |
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Interesting. So the B52 works on nicehash? Maybe I heard wrong but I thought that I read that the Bitmain A3 didn't work on nicehash not that it really matters since there's only one coin to mine.
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L3+ only $462 - $200 coupon.
They must have a new more powerful model coming out??
Thanks for this info. I didn't realize they dropped the price even more. I just ordered two more units. I'm hoping difficulty doesn't go up too much with these low prices. Just goes to show that they can sell these machines for so cheap and still make a profit I can only imagine how much money they make on all these miners. I'm guessing they could probably drop the price of all their miners to this price and still make a profit. Edit: LTC and BTC was available as payment options again too. |
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Already sold out...
I got one, and paid BCH for it..... sigh.... I feel so dirty now. 180MH - 800 bucks thats like a 800$ rig in a shoe box Shipping: 16-31 July. No shipping to HK, Macau, Taiwan Were you able to use a coupon for them? Edit: NVM I found out they don't take coupons for these. |
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I'm curious if the bitmain coupons work on these units.
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I sent one coupon to Rapidgator and one to highground. I only have two left. If nobody else wants them I will send them each another coupon since they expressed interest in more than one coupon.
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I have 5x $100 coupons to give away as well if anybody is interested.
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Thanks Phil. The t9 is what I was thinking. Looking at everything though just don't think I can swing it at the moment.
Thanks for the numbers though
no worries and deal fell through on my side any way. I did not get the 20x coupons That's a shame. I was thinking I could have used about 3 of them to finally upgrade my older gear. |
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yeah and I can drop any 1080ti down to 125 watts. If I choose. but 135 -145 watt setting is most efficient.
I was pushing 200 to keep house warm with cold spring this year.
I set to 150 and my sols are now 4.2 per watt
vs 3.6 per watt at 200.
I will be getting ready for summer soon and will need to set gear much lower in watts
Same here. I just can't do it with the summer heat and electric rates at home. @citronick Totally agree about the quality of the Avalon over Bitmain. I believe that the 841 comes with a two year warranty too not to mention that the Avalons have a much quieter fan. In other news they are saying that they confirmed a Bitmain ETH miner for Q2: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/26/analyst-slashes-amd-nvidia-price-targets-on-new-cryptocurrency-mining-chip-from-china.html |
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^^^ 9.7 uses the OpenCL drivers from whatever drivers you have installed, 11.2 uses custom assembler binaries I believe.
Also I'd like to know if the new XMR algo is going to be implemented in a timely release?
Same here. I'm hoping to get my miners up and ready before the fork. |
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This email from Canaan... "...On Monday we will update the webstore with new prcing for the 841 and 821. The 841 will be priced at $1625 per unit with an MOQ of 60 units. You can either order in the shop or email steve@canaan.io. Shipping usually takes between 7 and 14 days of payment. Ask your sales agent about additional discounts. The 821 will be sold in a special package along with 4 free 841. Please see the shop on monday or ask your sales agent...." In January, they advised that the A821 will be around 3000-4000 $USD each. We complaint that the so called "special" price is outrageous, and so we postponed the group's plan to expand the Avalon farm. Their sales guy said, they have pre-orders up to the hilt already so it was okay for the group to back out from the bulk purchase. The group was to place 400 units x A821s.... instead we put the funds to good use and bought BTC at 6k-7k. Imagine 841s now priced at 1625$... i can just imagine the frustrations of the early buyers of the A8 series. $1625 is a much more reasonable price. I'm small time so no way could I pick up 400 units but I probably would've picked up 2 to 4 units at that price. Glad to hear that holding off on that worked out for your group! |
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