And you will earn approximately 100 000 coins per month which will be worth around $0.1 total, am I right?

You gave SO MUCH info . Everyone must be jumping in and downloading your shit coin wallet

Exactly the same thing happened to me. Ran on Normal/Turbo for months and then one day it just dropped one hashboard, I immediately went LP mode and it worked for a few days w/o problems, and then from that point every day was worse and worse. It wouldn't run Turbo and Normal at all, or sometime it would run all 3 hashboards on Turbo but none on LP. Other times, it would see couple of chips on couple of boards but not run them. A lot of restarting kinda got me to use it for a month before I RMA-ed it.

But yeah, when I went with Vnish firmware, I literally started fiddling with all the different combos of voltage and frequency, it kept working on one hashboard or maximum two. And the one week it decided it was over. It just said: "NO! You've abused me enough, I will not mine for you anymore". And that's where I decided to RMA it's ass.

https://shop.bitmain.com/product/detail?pid=00020200403105249382Ow2fHTq80690

Was on sale for brief moment but seems to be sold out now. There are other PSUs on sale however.

To OP:

Try using custom firmware if you are up for doing testing yourself. If not, try putting your miner on one side horizontally instead of vertically (low chance of success but worth trying). I had exactly the same problem with my S17 Pro 50T before as I wrote in many threads before, I couldn't get it to work properly but custom firmware helped to run it at least with 1 or 2 hashboards at the time. Didn't really narrow the problem down to either hashboards or PSU but I assume PSU was bad. Couldn't wait for new one to be in shop so I RMA-ed it (this was before corona).

Not really sure what you should do here, but try checking the link I gave above every day to see if PSU comes back to shop.

Looks like Bitmain site is up and going as usual.

All gear still seems to be sold, no new gear announced;

HOWEVER, parts seem to be up for sale now, which is new for them (they were sold out not long ago too).

Seems like there was no need for opening this topic.

Mods, feel free to lock it.

Z11 haven't been on sale since last year if my memory serves me. They could be using Z15 to mine, but I doubt really.

Bitmain shop on both English and Chinese website has been "under maintenance" for couple of hours now.

There is no miners on page nor any accessories (like control boards/cables/psus/etc).

It's been few months since Bitmain last sold anything afaik and this can mean two (maybe three) thing:

1. They are coming back hard to crush the competition again and sell gear with better prices than anyone.

2. They are going bankrupt and are soon to close websites.

2a. They are doing this to avoid looking bad with no units for sale for months and will now open new website/company which will become NEW Bitmain.

Pictures:
English website


Chinese website

Not here to pour fuel on the fire but are you sure about that? Does that mean S17e and all other miners can be unlocked (to UC/OC) without editing bmminer/cgminer?

You could prove that it's original with few changes, but even original is breaking the agreement, therefore yours as well as any other custom firmware is also breaking an agreement since they are not providing source code.

And yes, afaik, you wouldn't be able to mine at Kano. I could try it for you, but I doubt it would work.

Imas ECD koji je tu vec duze vreme i legitiman je. Nisu se nesto proslavili mnogo zbog visokih fee-ova ali svakako ti trebaju dokumenti tu koliko se secam, mozda za neke mini transakcije ne treba dokumentacija.

Since the thread with my review is locked and I can no longer post or edit there, here are some new pictures (miner status, updated configuration page and some random snapshots of slushpool's worker page) after miner working for almost 48h:

Actually, it will be a sad time if Bitmain leaves the market. Since all competitors will be 100% they can pump up the prices (which they are already doing but on smaller margain).

I do not wish for Bitmain (as it was) to come back. But we need NEW Bitmain to come back with new leader/owner to be a competitor, nothing else.

Now, that is my opinion considering mining gear and prices of those. But when we are talking about their shady business and what they have done in past; I am damn happy they could be leaving for good.

Anywhere between 50$ and 100$ is reasonable imo. If I was a developer, I'd give firmware for less than 40$ only if buyer has multiple machines (5+/10+) but that is if we are talking licence based firmware. As I am not sure how OP will sell this firmware, I cannot really give a good price; will it be fee based; will it be unlimited where you can sell/share it or will it be per miner/per farm?

Big oooof, 500$ might be a over the top, maybe it's good if you want to sell it to resellers, but it's bad for small miners like me or someone who has only a few of S17e (which can be bought for roughly 900$ nowadays so you get my point).

Chipless has made some kind of licence based firmware where you need to type in correct licence in miner configuration so the miner can start working (not really sure if they are calling home or he has implemented a list of 1000x licences or more in every firmware and you just need to guess one or he gives it to you, but since it's rather a lot of characters, it will probably be impossible to guess). It's per miner so you cannot share it or if you do, you might be screwed. Similar thing could be done here.

thierry4wd could ask chipless for assistance but not sure if he will help.


Not sure he has a channel yet, we used discord and discussed everything via PMs, just add djay#4807 as friend and pm him.

Well mikey, people usually say "overclocking" when they mean both OC and DC (or UC - whatever you want to call it) but yeah, it is true that overclocking 17th generation of Bitmain miners is not a smart thing.

That is the first thing I asked him as well once he finished the firmware. He could do something like chipless - licence based?


He hasn't yet decided on price tag afaik. Since he is the only one who has working S17e (AFAIK) he could put a li'l bit higher price tag (not that I want that since I will probably be buying future firmware from him too...) but let's hope he comes up with number somewhere in middle where it's affordable but not free.

First you have to install asic.to firmware (join Telegram group if you need help or read original thread - it has good tutorial): https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5208500.0.

Then you can choose one of presets (OC/DC) or you can manually type what frequency and voltage you want.

Keep in mind that this firmware is free but it has fee of 3% afaik.

Never heard about either of those. Better to avoid unless someone has good experience with them.

Why you do not use one of available and trusted firmwares from this forum?

Yes, indeed it is true, I have given access to thierry4wd so he can finish developing firmware for S17e. It works as it should, in my case I was interested in underclocking due to ridiculous hot days that we have during the summer (and that we will have over next years - thank you very much global warming).

I will not be posting too long review here as I have already written a full one which you can check at bottom of my post.

This is the first S17e firmware that is legit and that I am aware of on this forum and in general. I am happy to see that people are taking after some other firmware creators and accepting one-time payment as method of selling their firmware (I do not personally like firmwares with fee since I use my machines for long time and that costs much more than if it was one-time payment).

However, as I am not currently aware of the price I cannot say if it is worth it or not, but I think he will not overprice it like some people do.

I cannot vouch that there is no malware or backdoor built-in but I highly doubt that there is one as mikeywith and Biffa vouched for this person (check the thread below for that too).

As of writing this post, my miner has been working around 48h non-stop (even though we just hit 43 C today in my city) while underclocked (whereas before I (or rather "he") installed his firmware on my machine, I couldn't run it at all due to outside temperature and machine always reaching 90 C and turning it self off or dropping to 0TH/s to protect itself).

Before upgrading to this firmware you will have to sd-card flash MPTest firmware like many other firmware since Bitmain locked most of their newer devices and does not allow you to flash just any firmware whenever you want. But I assume that he would send you a tutorial or explain you what you have to do when you buy the firmware.

His English is not the best as you can see but he is trying his best and really cares about machines and customers (or at least that is what I gathered from talking for almost a week with him).

I sincerely hope he will become one of big custom firmware developers as we URGENTLY need competition in these waters.

Oh... I said it won't be a long post.. Ah well, I tried my best to make it short.  

You can see my full review here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5264828.msg54891215#msg54891215.

Those temps were taken at around 1AM when temp is around 15C instead of 35C(during the whole day) so they look incredible. I could test OC at around 2-3AM local time during 02.08.2020. as that is the next coldest night we will have, but I have a rather short window there to test it (1AM-7AM is only 6 hours and I might not achieve much in that time).

Yes, I am as well glad that there is a single time-payment rather than % as that is much better long-term for customers.

I'll be editing my previous post with up to date pictures from slushpool and miner status.

I was once a newbie and was treated the same way, do not take it personally, it's just how life works everywhere, not only here on this forum.
It is true that there is a lot of scams going on here on this forum and your price is a bit lower than usual (overpriced gear) but I am actually and truly interested.

Pictures help so I can see that miners are legit and that they are in-hand at your place (or your friend's place).

They might be farming post counts but those are usually useless and they probably won't get any merit for those posts so just ignore that.
But it's usually a tradition that if you see way too good deal here, some of the members will WARN others about potential scams and you SHOULDN'T take it personally as I told you already, as they are just warning other newbies.

You adding pictures and more info (like if they are opened or not, how old are they, who were they bought from, etc...) will just help you sell those faster as you will "prove" that you actually have them and are going to great lengths to prove you are for real.

"Posting for a friend" has been dodgy on this forum before and I am not really sure why people do this but my best guess is that seller is not that knowledgeable about forums and/or ASICs and you are just helping him sell it faster or you have a cut for yourself in that.