Bitmain just announced the AntMiner A3 - 815GH/s Siacoin miner - Blake(2b)

[harper86]

What pool would yall mine on?

[badferret]

Are there any other coins on Blake(2b)?

[Peke]

Anyone have regret not buying it?

I had it in my cart but thought twice knowing bitmain...... I'm still not sure if I regret it or not haha.

Sold mine domestically for $4500. Let's see if I have to regret that. Either way, ~$1800 profit and no risk involved anymore so quite happy about it.

Lol, propably I'm now doomed to be one of those bad resellers who rip you of by hoarding all the available units they can get their hands on.

[maleemk]

Yup Just got my Waybill also. happy mining I guess.

[davemanet]

not to burst anyones bubble but...

WHAT WILL THE ANTMINER A3 REALLY PRODUCE?
In short, if Bitmain does produce 100,000 Antminer A3s, each Antminer A3 would mine 1 / 100,000 of the daily block reward. As 100,000 Antminer A3s would yield a new global Siacoin hash rate of 815 PH/s, or 815,000 TH/s – about 1600x the current hash rate – it makes the entire current hash rate effectively negligible. Therefore, using some quick, back-of-the-envelope math:

The current daily block reward is ~$159,000 worth of Sia coin (just set your hashrate = global hashrate on any linear calculator of your choice). Given the above, this implies that if Bitmain sells 100,000 Antminer A3s, each one will net $1.59 per day. 50,000 units sold would yield $3.18 per day. 10,000 units would yield $15.90 per day, which puts it in line with Bitcoin and Litecoin’s recent daily profitability.

Unless of course, the price of Siacoin dramatically appreciates…

http://theminersunion.com/2018/01/17/obelisk-tech-clients-breathe-sia-of-exasperation-as-bitmain-releases-a3s/

[Marvell2]

not to burst anyones bubble but...

WHAT WILL THE ANTMINER A3 REALLY PRODUCE?
In short, if Bitmain does produce 100,000 Antminer A3s, each Antminer A3 would mine 1 / 100,000 of the daily block reward. As 100,000 Antminer A3s would yield a new global Siacoin hash rate of 815 PH/s, or 815,000 TH/s – about 1600x the current hash rate – it makes the entire current hash rate effectively negligible. Therefore, using some quick, back-of-the-envelope math:

The current daily block reward is ~$159,000 worth of Sia coin (just set your hashrate = global hashrate on any linear calculator of your choice). Given the above, this implies that if Bitmain sells 100,000 Antminer A3s, each one will net $1.59 per day. 50,000 units sold would yield $3.18 per day. 10,000 units would yield $15.90 per day, which puts it in line with Bitcoin and Litecoin’s recent daily profitability.

Unless of course, the price of Siacoin dramatically appreciates…

http://theminersunion.com/2018/01/17/obelisk-tech-clients-breathe-sia-of-exasperation-as-bitmain-releases-a3s/

100k units in 2 days? even bitmain cant produce that much gear
i think its established that that batch was. no more than 8 to 20k units 

[willi9974]

which SIA Pool and exchange will you use?

[alpha-miner]

which SIA Pool and exchange will you use?

I will switch between nicehash and another pool that will pay out siacoin. I'll cash out on nicehash and hord coins from a sia pool. Just a little concerned about issues sia wallet have.

Also I was interested in sia a week or 2 back and was going to GPU mine it so I downloaded the wallet. It took all day to sync. Then A3 announcement just a few days later and I opened sia app again and it took several hours again to sync. That's not a great infrastructure.

[rummy]

Got another updated email with FedEx tracking showing a delivery of the A3 on Tuesday so impressed with the fast shipping from Bitmain

Antpool will be adding Sia in coming days and for wallet I'll probably just use Bittrex for now

[mady_qt]

Just received tracking info for my 6 pcs A3 miners. The shipment is still not picked up by DHL.

DHL tracking received, but shipment still not picked up. Lets see when it will be picked up.

[eth_mining]

Anyone that ordered from their staggered one hour batch had theirs shipped?

[mady_qt]

Anyone that ordered from their staggered one hour batch had theirs shipped?

Mine shipped. Exact order date and time:-

2018-01-18 11:06:16

[BenRickert]

Got another updated email with FedEx tracking showing a delivery of the A3 on Tuesday so impressed with the fast shipping from Bitmain

WOW! What country are you in? Bitmain has sent my last 3 Orders 1-2 weeks early!!

[rummy]

Im in the USA, I got another one coming too but ordered it the following day from first order.

[eth_mining]

Got another updated email with FedEx tracking showing a delivery of the A3 on Tuesday so impressed with the fast shipping from Bitmain

Antpool will be adding Sia in coming days and for wallet I'll probably just use Bittrex for now

Are you in the US? I read that it is better to use UPS for bitmain since they handle customs well? And fedex doesn't? Is that true?

Did you provide SSN/Tax id on your bitmain account?

[Boneyg001]

I'm in the USA and used UPS and still no shipping

paid on 2018-01-17 20:07 so I feel cheated others are getting it faster.

[mady_qt]

I'm in the USA and used UPS and still no shipping

paid on 2018-01-17 20:07 so I feel cheated others are getting it faster.

I guess, it is shipped, but tracking details not updated. My friends also ordered, and shipment is confirmed for them as well.

[Marvell2]

I'm in the USA and used UPS and still no shipping

paid on 2018-01-17 20:07 so I feel cheated others are getting it faster.

2018-01-17 15:50:56 is when i paid before you no shipping no tracking fuck me

I also ordered 3 PSU though  but those should not delay this so lame

[willi9974]

bought and paid: 19.01.2018
Shipped: 20.01.2018
Fedex delivery time point: 24.01.2018
Start Mining on: 24.01.2018

i use now SIA Nanopool and mine with my local SIA Wallet and will see how the SIA price will go...

Perfect HighSpeed shipping

[rummy]

Got another updated email with FedEx tracking showing a delivery of the A3 on Tuesday so impressed with the fast shipping from Bitmain

Antpool will be adding Sia in coming days and for wallet I'll probably just use Bittrex for now

Are you in the US? I read that it is better to use UPS for bitmain since they handle customs well? And fedex doesn't? Is that true?

Did you provide SSN/Tax id on your bitmain account?

I'm in the US and Ive tried both FedEx and UPS from Bitmain, I like FedEx better, UPS will charge you import tax fees when delivered where as FedEx will bill your CC on file. They both might hold it for awhile if its your first import but one miner is pretty small dollar amount. Just watch tracking if it gets held up in receiving center you may need to call the international shipping 800 number.

Yes I list SSN number with Bitmain but each Shipping Carrier has their own import forms that need to be filled out, not sure of dollar amount where that kicks in but probably around 10k, once you do that they will remember the next time they come thru.

Bitmain is not always quick to update email shipping notice, they might not update till package almost delivered, you can also log into website and check shipping status.

But you will need someone to be there to sign for or make some kind of arrangement as they won't just leave it without signature.