Bitmain's Released Antminer S9, World's First 16nm Miner Ready to Order

[GMPoison]

backed up transactions hit 68000

https://blockchain.info/unconfirmed-transactions

https://btc.com/stats/unconfirmed-tx

Have been waiting 12 hours for one confirmation

I have raised my fees, but once waited 5 days before finally using a website to advance it.  Even at 0.0003350 per tx fee, it's taking about an hour.

It's rough right now, confirmations taking forever.

[tbonetony]

First time achieving 1 month no down time

[Swimmer63]

BTC.COM (also Bitmain owned) is 0% fee and pays transaction fees.  They call it "subsidy."  No guarantee how long it will last.  Plus it's PPS.  

That sounds like the best payout/lowest risk pool out there.  I'm on Kano.  I may point my new S9 to BTC.com, but I really prefer to stay outside the Great Firewall.

That's my thinking.  There is no other pool I know of the has 0 fee for PPS.  And getting the fees on top of that is real nice.

EDIT - And they are merge mining Namecoin too.

be VERY careful with PPS pools that dont take a fee.. they will eventually go broke and stop paying out. it only takes a couple of long blocks before the pps outweighs the block rewards.

I moved to BTC.com and I think they may skim some hash, but I got my first payment okay.

Make sure you are on the right server for your location.  I have found that it can take as long as 24 hours to "level" on the pool when I add a miner.  So check your average hash after 48 hours.  It should be accurate.  Assuming no miner issues.
One important change I got caught up in - if you change your mining address for the pool it will take 48 hours for you to get paid at the new address.  I don't know if this is the same for the subsidy address or not.

[wolfen]

80500 uncommitted transactions now
ouch!
New transactions going fast, old are waiting for the stack to die down.

[Swimmer63]

Just received a $300 coupon from Bitmain.  Have not had one of these since March of last year.

Dear customer,
Thank you for your recent Bitmain purchase.
We have decided to offer a $300 coupon exclusively to buyers of certain Antminer S9 batches as a token of gratitude.
The batch that you purchased is among them.
You can view this coupon by logging into your Bitmain account. The number of coupons you would have received correspond to the number of S9 miners you purchased from the selected batches.
These coupons will be valid until 30th April 2017.
Please note that the number of coupons that can be applied to one order cannot exceed the number of Antminer S9 units in that order.
For example, an order consisting of 1 unit of Antminer S9 can have a maximum of 1 coupon applied to it and an order of 10 units of Antminer S9 can have a maximum of 10 coupons applied to it.
If you have additional concerns, please feel free to let us know.

Best Regards,
Bitmain Team

[tbonetony]

Just received a $300 coupon from Bitmain.  Have not had one of these since March of last year.

Dear customer,
Thank you for your recent Bitmain purchase.
We have decided to offer a $300 coupon exclusively to buyers of certain Antminer S9 batches as a token of gratitude.
The batch that you purchased is among them.
You can view this coupon by logging into your Bitmain account. The number of coupons you would have received correspond to the number of S9 miners you purchased from the selected batches.
These coupons will be valid until 30th April 2017.
Please note that the number of coupons that can be applied to one order cannot exceed the number of Antminer S9 units in that order.
For example, an order consisting of 1 unit of Antminer S9 can have a maximum of 1 coupon applied to it and an order of 10 units of Antminer S9 can have a maximum of 10 coupons applied to it.
If you have additional concerns, please feel free to let us know.

Best Regards,
Bitmain Team

Very nice. well looks like we can soon anticipate another wave of sparta jumps in diff in the coming months.

[petahashminer]

Just received a $300 coupon from Bitmain.  Have not had one of these since March of last year.

Dear customer,
Thank you for your recent Bitmain purchase.
We have decided to offer a $300 coupon exclusively to buyers of certain Antminer S9 batches as a token of gratitude.
The batch that you purchased is among them.
You can view this coupon by logging into your Bitmain account. The number of coupons you would have received correspond to the number of S9 miners you purchased from the selected batches.
These coupons will be valid until 30th April 2017.
Please note that the number of coupons that can be applied to one order cannot exceed the number of Antminer S9 units in that order.
For example, an order consisting of 1 unit of Antminer S9 can have a maximum of 1 coupon applied to it and an order of 10 units of Antminer S9 can have a maximum of 10 coupons applied to it.
If you have additional concerns, please feel free to let us know.

Best Regards,
Bitmain Team

Do you know the price of newly ordered S9 units, in their site it says out of stock. Do they make and discount?

[VRobb]

Wow, if they're doing that for the some of the S9 batches they for sure need to look into doing the same for the R4's... 

[VTdude12]

As noted above, BITMAIN has issued $300 coupons for S9 purchases.  I have 2x of these that I will more than likely not be using.

Anyone looking to make a purchase in this batch, I'd be willing to transfer them for a fair price.  Private message me - US located.

[Biodom]

As noted above, BITMAIN has issued $300 coupons for S9 purchases.  I have 2x of these that I will more than likely not be using.

Anyone looking to make a purchase in this batch, I'd be willing to transfer them for a fair price.  Private message me - US located.

you know that you got machine(s) from the worse batches if you got a fat coupon like this.
I would sell the coupon and keep the cash for a repair that might (or might not) happen.

[tbonetony]

Wow, if they're doing that for the some of the S9 batches they for sure need to look into doing the same for the R4's... 

I agree ;DR4's have been a lot more defective than S9's

[GMPoison]

As noted above, BITMAIN has issued $300 coupons for S9 purchases.  I have 2x of these that I will more than likely not be using.

Anyone looking to make a purchase in this batch, I'd be willing to transfer them for a fair price.  Private message me - US located.

you know that you got machine(s) from the worse batches if you got a fat coupon like this.
I would sell the coupon and keep the cash for a repair that might (or might not) happen.

I think they just understood that the price they set for their latest batch was way too high. Their new price is more appropriate.

[petahashminer]

As noted above, BITMAIN has issued $300 coupons for S9 purchases.  I have 2x of these that I will more than likely not be using.

Anyone looking to make a purchase in this batch, I'd be willing to transfer them for a fair price.  Private message me - US located.

you know that you got machine(s) from the worse batches if you got a fat coupon like this.
I would sell the coupon and keep the cash for a repair that might (or might not) happen.

I think they just understood that the price they set for their latest batch was way too high. Their new price is more appropriate.

what is the new price of new batch ?

[Biodom]

As noted above, BITMAIN has issued $300 coupons for S9 purchases.  I have 2x of these that I will more than likely not be using.

Anyone looking to make a purchase in this batch, I'd be willing to transfer them for a fair price.  Private message me - US located.

you know that you got machine(s) from the worse batches if you got a fat coupon like this.
I would sell the coupon and keep the cash for a repair that might (or might not) happen.

I think they just understood that the price they set for their latest batch was way too high. Their new price is more appropriate.

what is the new price of new batch ?

It's there...$1464+shipping, so, maybe $1520-1524 for a 13.5TH...probably had a big customer reneging at prior (higher) price.

[GMPoison]

As noted above, BITMAIN has issued $300 coupons for S9 purchases.  I have 2x of these that I will more than likely not be using.

Anyone looking to make a purchase in this batch, I'd be willing to transfer them for a fair price.  Private message me - US located.

you know that you got machine(s) from the worse batches if you got a fat coupon like this.
I would sell the coupon and keep the cash for a repair that might (or might not) happen.

I think they just understood that the price they set for their latest batch was way too high. Their new price is more appropriate.

what is the new price of new batch ?

It's there...$1464+shipping, so, maybe $1520-1524 for a 13.5TH...probably had a big customer reneging at prior (higher) price.

A week ago they had their new batch priced at $1850, only now have they come down on their price. People were not happy about $1850 for an S9.

[petahashminer]

As noted above, BITMAIN has issued $300 coupons for S9 purchases.  I have 2x of these that I will more than likely not be using.

Anyone looking to make a purchase in this batch, I'd be willing to transfer them for a fair price.  Private message me - US located.

you know that you got machine(s) from the worse batches if you got a fat coupon like this.
I would sell the coupon and keep the cash for a repair that might (or might not) happen.

I think they just understood that the price they set for their latest batch was way too high. Their new price is more appropriate.

what is the new price of new batch ?

It's there...$1464+shipping, so, maybe $1520-1524 for a 13.5TH...probably had a big customer reneging at prior (higher) price.

1520+ 120 psu = 1640

1640 / 1260 / 13.5 = 0.097 BTC/THS and ships at 31th march, aka 1 month later. ships to late. There will be 15%-20% diff increase in a month.

[Micky25]

They probably will start shipping much earlier, the miners are on stock. The march 31st date is to have an argument for the guys who paid $400 more a week before  

[GMPoison]

They probably will start shipping much earlier, the miners are on stock. The march 31st date is to have an argument for the guys who paid $400 more a week before  

Haha.

[Micky25]

by the way: looking to buy 2 valid S9 coupons, for BTC0.1

[GMPoison]

by the way: looking to buy 2 valid S9 coupons, for BTC0.1

Wait, can you explain the coupon thing to me? Did they give them out to those who bought the S9 a week ago for ~$400 more? So they have a ~$400 coupon that they can just give to anyone to purchase miners with?