[No good. wget on the S1 does not support https and dropbox had stopped supporting http downloads. Sorry everyone. No more easy way to load-balance the S1. Good luck.]

No good.  wget on the S1 does not support https and dropbox had stopped supporting http downloads.  Sorry everyone.  No more easy way to load-balance the S1.  Good luck.

Much thanks to helipotte for posting that there's a new firmware available.

I'm not really sure if there's an advantage to upgrading the firmware as I'm not seeing a difference in performance, but it's always good to have the latest version of the software (such as cgminer upgrade to 3.12  from  3.8.5).

Upgrade at your own risk, but if you decide to, here's a step-by-step video on how to do it.

       Upgrade the firmware on the Antminer S1

Have fun!

[Total BTC cost: 5.05BTC]

Greetings:

I was wondering if current owners of the Antminer S1's would be willing to share their progress as far as getting back the BTC invested (completely ignoring all other costs for now such as electricity, PSU, etc.).

Before I start, I was aware that there was a risk of not getting my full BTC spent but was willing to risk it thinking that if I get close enough (lose as much as a whole BTC) it would still be worth it for the experience of mining and possibly I could mine other Sha-256 coins or sell the hardware for whatever I can get for it.

First Ant:        3.15BTC  -- sushi GB5    Arrived Jan 3, 2014
2nd Ant:         1.90BTC  -- Bitmain website  Arrived Jan 23, 2014

Total BTC cost:                                5.05BTC

Mining result as of Feb 5, 2014:     2.315BTC

Remaining BTC to full ROI:            2.735BTC


A couple of things to note:

• 1.  I'm doing better than Jan 3 status -- Ant S1 (Qty=1),  3.15BTC cost,  est. daily earnings .068BTC versus now -- Ant S1 (Qty=2), 2.735BTC cost, est. daily earnings .0777BTC
• 2.  I'm doing better than the next announced price/shipment of Ant S1 -- Feb 8 ship date, Ant S1 (Qty=2), 2.90BTC cost  versus -- now, Ant S1 (Qty=2), 2.735BTC cost

Attached image below doesn't include the first 2 days result as I was hopping mining pools trying to find a good one which yielded .12BTC  and  also  15 hours of Unobtanium coin mining yielding .045BTC worth of Uno's

Much thanks to Bobs Yerunkle, dogie, and goxed who showed that it's possible, as I would have been too scared to mess with such an expensive device   

[Antminer S1 semi-teardown] How to improve cooling on an overclocked Antminer S1

If you have some time while waiting for Superbowl, lol

  -jeremy

[No good. wget on the S1 does not support https and dropbox had stopped supporting http downloads. Sorry everyone. No more easy way to OC. Good luck.]

No good.  wget on the S1 does not support https and dropbox had stopped supporting http downloads.  Sorry everyone.  No more easy way to OC.  Good luck.

When I got my first Antminer S1; I tried to look for unboxing or some setup guide on youtube, but I couldn't find any.  I decided to make on with my latest Antminer S1, but someone beat me to being the first video on setting it up.  Anyway, I think I still have the only Antminer S1 unboxing video on youtube   

This is my very first youtube video for public display.  It's not very good, but it's something, lol


Antminer S1 180GH/s bitcoin miner unboxing and setup


I plan to make an Antminer S1 overclocking video guide also using recordmydesktop which hopefully will be better since I now have a little bit of experience.