It seems like Jihan Wu, the Bitmain CEO is getting little salty about these miners coming to the market.
If DragonMint would be one of the million scams, I don't see why would there be effort to create this parody website and do the Twitter post.
This Twitter post and the parody website almost seems like a poor discredit attempt.

https://twitter.com/JihanWu/status/933739149613338624

If someone like Sony, AMD, Intel or Nvidia would start making mining hardware, their mass production quantities would absolutely flood the market. That is something to think about...

I'm still waiting for my A5 to come here to Finland..

It is looking rather bad when it comes to the ROI.
And no rebate in any form at all..

10000 USD was and still is a wrong price for this.
It does not reflect the network situation and making one of these sure does not cost 10k.

This starts to look like my biggest mistake in my mining career.

No offense, but how hard is it to read my previous post above?

Ask them for more information.

I don't see why they would not sell miners for guys in Myanmar.

Pangolinminer website: https://www.pangolinminer.com
Pangolinminer e-mail: sales@pangolinminer.com
Pangolinminer WeChat ID for Asia region sales: pangolin2017

This is sold now.  Thread locked.

It's your decision, we can't say whether to do it or not.

Calculate your numbers and give it a good thinking.

I'm on the Telegram, sending you PM now.

I have proposed them with doing a thorough review here at the forum. 

Let's see if I can buy a demo unit.

I would be really careful at this stage, but I'm willing to give this a chance.

I have proposed them with a thorough review here at the forum.

Let's see if I'm able to buy a demo unit.  

I have understood that allinvain here at the forum would have a lot of S5s that he would like to upgrade.

See previous posts.

Philipma1957 has already posted his thoughts about the profit when mining at Nicehash pool.

No.

This firmware has nothing to do with the L3+.

Well it is not November 21 yet, which is the first day that November 21-30 batch will ship.

Let's see what is the status tomorrow. 

@leowonderful
I finally had some time and did a quick disassembly for the miner, took some pictures and then assembled it back together to continue the mining.

I have some close up pictures of the controller board and hash boards.  

I really like how it looks, seems quite robust to me when it comes to the cooling heat sink solution for example.


WhatsMiner M3 disassembled. Click for a bigger version. Picture taken by HagssFIN.


Controller board. Click for a bigger version. Pictures taken by HagssFIN.



Hash board. Click for a bigger version. Pictures taken by HagssFIN.

You need to find two or three pieces old used Antminer C1 miners and then buy two or three upgrade board kits from Hotmine.
This is the only straight forward way to have modern watercooled miners, but I agree that this equipment is not easy to find.

This is Antminer C1: http://www.dogiecoin.com/bitmain-antminer-c1.html

This is Hotmine X6 upgrade kit with Bitfury 16nm ASIC chips: http://en.hotmine.io/x5-x6-upgrade-kit-new


When it comes to your opening post, I think you are being way too complicated with it.
I hope this advice makes it easier for you.

They should move their empty blocks mining to BCH and stop harming the Bitcoin network operation.

I just tried to be helpful, nobody is forcing you to use my download link.

I guess it would be better to just remain quiet if somebody is asking for older firmware..

I know there is a saying that "there are no stupid questions", but this just might reach to that point that this is a stupid question.

How are they shipping the December batch miners before the November batch ones? 

My November 21-30 delivery batch is at the moment showing "unshipped" status.