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Dear ViaBTC users:

In the past 14 months, ViaBTC cloud mining service has covered over 50 countries and regions in the globe, served tens of thousand cryptocurrency investors and received great popularity all over the world. We are very grateful for your love and support and will continue trying our best in providing more investment options.

Recently, due to policy changes, some of our long-term hosting partners are facing a crisis of farm closure as mining resources in Mainland China become more scarce, leading to rocketing costs of our cloud mining operation. To guarantee the long run of cloud mining, ViaBTC has no choice but have to readjust our maintenance fees. The arrangements are as follows:

1. S9 contracts: From UTC time 8:00 12th January 2018, maintenance fee ratio for S9 contracts will be adjusted from 6% to 50%.
2. L3/D3 contracts: Maintenance fees for L3/D3 contracts will REMAIN 6% and L3/D3 redemption is NOT yet available.

S9 contract redemption supported

If you disagree with our readjustment of maintenance fees, you can choose to terminate your S9 cloud mining contracts in advance and let us redeem all your contracts with a price of $300 per share (calculated against real-time rate into BCH at time of payment).

Please refer to our follow up announcement for redemption time.

How to apply for S9  contract redemption

1. Please apply with an email to support@viabtc.com BEFORE UTC time 12:00 18th January 2018 or your application will be EXPIRED.
2. Please send application with your registered Email address in ViaBTC or your application will be INVALID.
3. Please include your ViaBTC account details (eg. Your registered Email, binded mobile and miner nickname).
4. Please WRITE DOWN the following sentences on a piece of paper, take a picture and have it attached to your Email:

I, Account nickname,
(Registered Email in ViaBTC: XXX; Binded mobile: XXX)
agree to the following terms of redemption of all my S9 cloud mining contracts at a price of $300 PER Share

Hi yall,

I am new to Asic mining; hence, I have a question regarding asic errors on my antminers. I saw some errors on the asic status i.e. a mix of ooooxxooo. I rebooted the antminers and the  errors go away. Is this normal? How often do you need to reboot the antminers? These units are still under warranty.

Hi there,

I got a 3-phase 150kva step-down transformer from 600V to 240V. I am supplying the input of the transformer with 600V 200A 3-phase, and the output of the transformer is 3-phase 240V. This is going into my 240V 400A disconnect, and then into my 240V 400A power distribution panel.  How many S9 Antminers (1400W) can I run this 150kva transformer?

I calculated 61 units. Can some help me confirm my calculations?

[2. Sales of next-generation mining boards (tentative)After manufacturing mining boards equipped with mining chips, they will be used in the next-generation mining center, and we will also sell them.]

Here is the link

http://www.gmo.jp/en/news/article/?id=759

【Outlook for the future】

In addition to launching in-house mining in April 2018 (tentative), GMO Internet is planning the following for the Bitcoin mining business.

1. Cloud mining business (tentative)
　Individuals or businesses can join the mining easily. We will sell mining resources (the amount of computation) of a next-generation mining center, and offer mining rewards depending on the resources purchased by our customers. Although individuals or businesses may find it difficult to invest in and manage mining equipment, they can join the mining through small amount of investment.

2. Sales of next-generation mining boards (tentative)
After manufacturing mining boards equipped with mining chips, they will be used in the next-generation mining center, and we will also sell them.

I thought that 7nm technology is at least 2-3 years away. Are they pumping their ico?

Hi Guys,

I am looking for a free software whereby it would send me sms or email if the mining room goes about 30C. I was thinking of buying an USB thermometer and plug it into a PC.  I am pretty sure that someone has come across this problem before; hence, I don't want to reinvent the wheel and write my own code.

Cheers.

Say I have one bitcoin today. What should I do with it? Should I get four S9 antminers or three L3+ antminers or combination of them.

Are are some smart options to grow this one bitcoin?
- buy equipment & mine (i have cheap electricity)
- buy equipment and have Hashnet host them
- hodl
- invest in LTC instead of BTC

What would you do?

I am wondering if anyone has bought any equipment from them. I bought some D3s October batch and am having some doubts about their website.

If you have come across them before, please let me know your experience. BTW, I already opened up a dispute with Paypal just in case that they are not legit. I want the miners but protecting my money is my number #1 priority.