Nobody knows, Bitmain has very high variance in terms of batch reliability so it may be true that the first batch is unreliable and they tweak it throughout later batches. Seems like they are in early stages of development atm with the L3 photos but they may use the same chassis for the miner. Fingers crossed they didn't rush development and they've just now decided to shoot the gun.

+10

Huge and, in my opinion, unnecessarily big reward this round, but I would also love to see more picks in the future! I smell a big pump in diff this round.

The buy volume just now was absolutely insane, and this is pre-BIP91 activation. Can't wait to see what happens after SW is activated, we may well have $5000 in our sights. Another little bump and we're back to ATH breaking.

Scam. Direct or bust except for a small number of acceptably reliable stores that you can buy from. Even those stores will sell miners at a considerable markup.

Everybody saw Pinidea and Baikal running out of stock and how much their miners were selling for and making, so ASIC development continued and Bitmain shot their gun first. Interesting times, difficulty will probably go exponential for X11 crypto soon.

You don't know whether or not they were developing an ASIC for X11 beforehand, though, do you? Perhaps they were already close to finishing it and just decided to announce their miner right after Bitmain did. You also don't know what kind of budget they have and what they can pull off. Whole lotta assumption and little fact.

Quite low and if it ever does come out expect em to be incredibly overpriced like the L3+. They have no reason to put them up and if they do expect prices to be jacked up to $6k+ per miner. More likely is they mine with the miners themselves. That being said Bitmain always gets around to listing their miners on Hashnest, albeit at exorbitant costs.

The build quality of Bitmain products has also gone down over time, with the S9 being the most power dense miner they've made, so it could be an issue but most S9s I've seen do run a little bit on the hot side. Could be why, but could also be bad manufacturing from Bitmain.

Yes, but taking antiquated miners and OCing them = even worse efficiency = no profit or ROI at the end of the day. S9s also have horrible reliability and do not overclock too well at any temperature AFAIK.

Back on topic, hashrate seems to be going up again and we may well see another +10% rise in difficulty. As difficulty continues to rise I'm wondering whether Bitmain is doing R&D on a new chip or  if they plan on continuing S9 production as they are more focused on alts.

Unless y'all are getting refunds or the sale will be discontinued, I see nothing good for buyers of the first batch except extremely lengthened ROI due to Bitmain's new miner coming out. Or perhaps iBeLink is upgrading the miners?

Not Bitcoin mining, belongs in Altcoin mining. Second, it is an X11 miner hashing at 15Ghs designed to compete with the ridiculously overpriced DM11G, an 11GHS X11 miner. Great deal for both resale and mining, but difficulty rising on X11 will make profits waaaay lower than the estimated $100K/miner you would be making per year if you had your hands on one right now.

Escrow and motherboard socket type? I may take it if you accept escrow.

On another note Bitmain seems to have launched the D3 X11 miner (15GH/1200W) selling for $2600 and shipping in September. Perhaps you could get another X11 miner for a decent price if you wanted to profitability calculators show this thing making almost $100k a year but it will likely crash with iBeLink also releasing their DM11G.

Even if you don't plan on mining with this thing you could resell it for quite a bit if you want to become one of those people (Depending on how much you mine, 5k+ is possible and depending on Bitmain delivery and batch production). Shame I'm about twenty bucks short because of UPS shipping costs. Bitmain plans on shipping this out in September if you read the description.

Antminer has pretty much always delivered on their promises but this looks exactly like an L3+. Except for the original L1, that is, which was cancelled IIRC. Going to keep my eyes peeled, seems Bitmain wants to get their feet wet on all ends. Imagine the resale for this beast.


Also, for guys using mining calculators, remember the iBeLink DM11G is also coming out, which will presumably be this thing's rival. Expect enormous profitability drops and difficulty hikes when they come out. This could kill everything Baikal has, as well as Pinidea.

Depends on electrical cost, location, cooling costs, etc. Add to that the fact that the price of BTC is fluctuating wildly due to the possible fork and it is rather risky even though with the high prices nowadays you can attain ROI in less than 300 days in most cases, as difficulty continues to skyrocket. As a rule of thumb, electrical costs above $.10/kWh are not going to be very profitable for mining.

I personally don't like the sudden and extreme rebounds and drops we've been having, but I guess it's better than the slow death after the 2013 peak. Activation period for BIP91 begins in 7 hours, we shall see if it goes through then or not.

We still need ViaBTC, F2Pool to signal, and F2Pool recently got DDOSed so that may be the reason why signalling is delayed on their end. Bitmain is also fake signalling right now, and if that doesn't change then they will orphan all SW2x blocks. Interesting times. I hope that lock-in period will succeed the first time but considering these two big pools and several small pools aren't signalling BIP91 yet, it may take some time for it to happen.

I recall buying one of the PinIdea USB miners for about fifty bucks this year and then forgetting about it and eventually losing it. They sure are quiet and reliable, and the only X11 machines I ever got at a decent price. Perhaps I'll find it this week