hmm 4 fans... that will be different than the t15/s15 then that means the adapter to hook to ducting will be different as the screws will be different placements. working on the 3d printed adapters now, will adjust the screw holes to fit this layout.

bump - still have these available $200 each + shipping willing to do $180 each if you buy all 4!

awesome! thanks for the purchase - if possible please give positive trust - I see zero still

first batch sold out in 14 minutes on the 9th, second batch went on sale on the 10th - lasted about a day before being sold out. Bitmain listed the two batch sale dates on their site/blog.


it was over a year ago - and I have forgotten tbh but I believe that I did post it up on here but that when I was just starting here and it may have been deleted. the majority of my first 50 or so posts were deleted - I think I had to make like 75 posts before they started letting them stay on the forums lol

what I do remember is that it was not a manufacturer order - it was a 3rd party seller and their website was offline within a month after they got my money.

if someone bought me one I would tear it apart and take all the photos they want - warranty be damned lol but I think that anyone would be willing to do that. I agree with OGnasty though - would not want to void any warranty on my dime either.

very nice, I have the land already paid for, almost 1.3 acres. My challenge has been with the electric company and zoning on getting a transformer installed. If I could secure the transformer, I would then get financing to build a data center - I don't want to go too big but maybe something along the lines of 150' long by 75' wide. I could do traditional data center hosting along with mining my own miners and then hosting for others as well. my electricity is not super cheap but it's only .056 so not that expensive either.


I understood and thanks!

ahh minefarmpay does not charge for the tariff? hmmm... makes the price more acceptable.

I cannot use paypal anymore - I ordered 10.6k worth of miners and paid with paypal - never got the miners (first and last time buying from a 3rd party that is not proven thru these forums) had to file a claim, after about 60 days paypal did refund me the money but now will no longer allow me to send/receive/pay/sell using that account.  I guess them eating 10.6k --- I paid and had to wait almost 30 days for the shipping to occur but never did - by that time the seller most likely withdrew all the funds so paypal reimbursed me outta their pocket, I assume.

as for your available power, i am still jealous lol.

cryptonight has quite a few versions - does this mine cryptonight v7 or cryptonight v8 or cryptonightR or all of them?

Philip - let me know what that total comes to with the tariff  and after shipping - I want to just buy 10 of them and be done with it but I feel that without coupons and with tariffs and current price that I will be in the red for over a year and that is not what i want.

and that is one reason that I have mine at my own property - if I leave, I have another friend that also mines and he can always check mine and vice versa if he is gone, I can take care of his.

really? they are not that efficient? i was thinking of adding like 10 of em lol

nice! i am thinking about adding some wind turbines but as a user of one, is it worth it? and how hard is it to connect in to the system?

nice - I wish I could justify it but it is mainly the tariff that stops me - hopefully within a month or so they will drop in price when the profits plummet from the increased network hashrate and then bitmain will issue coupons as well.

I am looking forward to seeing results from the early birds though.

ognasty - side note, do you use wind to subsidize your power usage?

yea maybe - I am hesitant to do so while the ramp up is so long. my profitability is quite low, after paying for the miners and for the electricity for a year now, I have barely 1 BTC in reserves. although that 1 btc is worth a lot more this month then it was say 2 months ago lol

gotcha - totally misunderstood, I thought people were paying 3.6k for them lol

being in the US, I will need to wait till the price drops or they offer/coupons to offset the tariff increase.

oh you refund the difference?

3.6k? ouch at the 2k price the ROI is damn near a year, if difficulty never rises at 3.6k almost two years and that is with 5 cent electricity.

how much do you mark up for resale?

I am thinking the ROI will be longer - but that will more then likely depend on how many were sold - as soon as they all hit the network, if there are a lot of them - I am thinking difficulty will climb and thus reduce the profitability but then again if the profits drop too much, we may have farms using S9's that shut down and thus lower difficulty back down.

I will wait till they offer some coupons and lower the price, at current price plus tariff, too high in my opinion.

edit: as a note, I see them up for sale again for April 20 - 30 shipping date.

second edit: now the S17 normal 56 TH/s is sold out for second batch.

yep - I missed the sale as well... I went to bed at 1230 am Eastern and they were still showing as "TBD" to me, I got up at 630 am and they were sold out... but yes with 2k+ price tags without coupons and with the tariff - it would be a super long ROI

I almost think it would be better if these manufacturers would stop producing products for a while so that people who bought machines could reach ROI before the new ones come out. I think I will just keep an eye out for more T15's because at 1/3rd the price, they are much more likely to make ROI than the S17 ---- though I would love to replace all 20 existing miners with 10 S17's as it would replace my 289 TH/s with 620 TH/s and while it would also replace my approx. 22,585 watts of power usage with approx. 27,900 watts of power usage - the more than double hashrate would compensate for that. Right now, my profit is just around $850 per month - the change over would put my profit around $2,650 per month (based on current difficulty and BTC price of course) to do that upgrade would cost over $25k pushing ROI to almost 1 year at current difficulty/BTC price/profit margin. But that profit will decrease rather soon, especially as now difficulty is going to climb when these hit the market. So, it is hard to justify not upgrading as my existing monthly profit may disappear but to maintain a monthly profit means to push the ROI too far out....

I just need free electricity and then profit will always be easy lol

Not sure how many were in batch 1, but they sold out fast.

stop selling accounts.... it degrades and cheapens those that actually earn it...