antiminer S9 VS Graphic cards

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i have a one question

for example i bay amd RX 470-480 graphic card

now price is a 200$


i needed 5 Month for The amount of extract

Is it worth buying?

and how thinking can risk?

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[Hsasiabar]

why is antiminer s9 better than video cards?


hello guys
i want to know that it is possible to use ant miner or graphic cards(rigs) as hardware of pc and use them for running my own software??
i mean i use ant miner proccessing like my cpu?
it is important to me for doing my analysis in earthquake program analysis.
thanks.

[huntingthesnark]

Antminer ASICs - no, they do one thing only.

GPUs - definitely, they are PC hardware.

[swogerino]

Although Antminers are Asics- Application Specific Integrated Circuit boards and they do mine only one kind of algorithm since S9 does the king Bitcoin it will behave well until S15 comes out which I believe will do soon or maybe is already out as I have seen pre orders on Ebay.

Gpu rigs though have more elasticity they can mine different algorithms and at certain times maybe better than Asics so it all depends on your point of view which suits you better. Both makes you crypto being the same end result.

[QuintLeo]

Although Antminers are Asics- Application Specific Integrated Circuit boards and they do mine only one kind of algorithm since S9 does the king Bitcoin it will behave well until S15 comes out which I believe will do soon or maybe is already out as I have seen pre orders on Ebay.

Gpu rigs though have more elasticity they can mine different algorithms and at certain times maybe better than Asics so it all depends on your point of view which suits you better. Both makes you crypto being the same end result.

S15/T15 was released a week or two back on the Bitmain website.
Like the S9, they can ONLY work on the SHA256 algorithm, so much less flexable than a GPU-based rig but HUGELY more capable on SHA256.

[leowonderful]

Note that miner import fees still exist for miners if you're importing miners from Bitmain (or any company shipping from China) to the United States, and that fee is currently set at 25% plus 2.6% which comes to a total of 27.6% for those trying to get miners in the US. This is something you need to add into any potential calculations of break-even time if you live in the US, and it's making mining via ASICs a bit less attractive here.

There's a discussion about this in the BTC Mining section (click to go the thread) if you're looking for more info for this. Shouldn't be an issue for people living elsewhere, but I know there are some people out there that are unaware that there are tariffs affecting ASICs from China as well.

[QuintLeo]

Note that miner import fees still exist for miners if you're importing miners from Bitmain (or any company shipping from China) to the United States, and that fee is currently set at 25% plus 2.6% which comes to a total of 27.6% for those trying to get miners in the US.

In theory, the "trade war" truce should drop this back down to the previous 2.6%, but it's still up-in-the-air on when and somewhat iffy on if it will actually happen.

At this point though, given Jihan Wu's antics and the resulting COLLAPSE of Bitcoin (and almost all Altcoin) pricing and mining profitability, I wouldn't buy a Bitmain product if it was FREE and shipping was FREE.
LET HIM ROT.