What alternatives is there to Bitmain?

[Languett89]

Hello all,

Been in crypto for about 2 years, trading and investing/hodling mostly, been thinking about mining for since november 2016 but didn't had funds. Q1/2 2017 have been really good to me; so I want to diversify/support the network and so far; 2 things interests me most in mining;

PoC mining (Proof of Capacity) => used by BURST. (Which is off topic because I've figured out pretty much everything I wanted to know) => Basically, stacking harddrives in masses.
And Scrypt mining; AS FOR scrypt mining; My actual question is;

1- Is there an actual/worthy alternative to Bitmain?

So far, I've found about 7-8 scams that's it. And am pretty dissapointed.

Meeeeeerci!

[NotFuzzyWarm]

If you are talking about BTC mining there is also Canaan (Avalons), Hotmine.io (hard to get) and Ebang's Ebit miner. All known and proven providers. All have official threads in Hardware section.

If talking about altcoins -- wrong area.

[Languett89]

I was talking about ASIC scrypt mining; LTC, GAME, DOGE

[szafa]

Alternative to bitmain is gmo in future.

[jt00]

Obelisk for siacoin

[kimtaekayo]

Avalon is probably what you are looking for.

[mousehouse]

Canaan and Ebit are making solid products if I read the reviews here with seemingly lower failure rates than Bitmain. However, a true miner only cares about "hashes per W" and looking at it from that angle I'm not sure if they are real alternatives.

For a home/hobby miner an Avalon is great as it will live long, but for profit I'd take an S9/L3+ any day...

[cointastical]

Bitcoin (SHA-256) ASICs sold to miners:

- Avalon (by Canaan, China)
- DragonMint (by Halong, China)
- eBit (by ebang, China)
- antminer (by bitmain, China)

Bitcoin (SHA-256) ASICs produced for (internal) corporate use exclusively or primarily:

- GMO, Japan https://mining.gmo.jp
- Cryptotech AS, Norway https://Cryptotech.no

I don't know where/how/what BitFury sources their Bitcoin (SHA-256) ASIC mining hardware.

- https://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMining/comments/7k69go/why_arent_other_companies_releasing_asic/dt8v24a

[leowonderful]

This thread was actually moved from Bitcoin Mining to Altcoin Mining so I assume OP is talking about alt mining.

Depends what miner you're talking about. Bitmain's currently got no competitor besides the to-be-released Obelisk on the Sia chain, the D3 has competitors like Pinidea and Baikal which are lesser threats now, and Innosilicon with their A5. With LTC, Innosilicon is really their only rival.