[NEW] Bitmain Announces Antminer A3

[dlezama]

I am in the US and cannot choose Fed ex even tho I have input my ein into settings.  Is there something else I need to do?

You gotta type an importer no. here: https://shop.bitmain.com/user/addressBook.htm

Yeah, but what in hell do I put there? I read somewhere that for a person the importer number is the SSN + 00, but I'm not sure I can trust that info.

[Ma907xB]

I saw that Ant-pool is adding Sia coin to there pool. I'm having trouble understanding how to mine Sia coin otherwise. Do you think it will be similar to setting up an S9? I also don't see Sia coin available on the antpool to mine.

[rummy]

Its not added yet but they said they would add it. Hopefully by tomorrow they will have found a block on Antpool.

Check here.

https://siastats.info/mining_pools.html

[Antlia]

I saw that Ant-pool is adding Sia coin to there pool. I'm having trouble understanding how to mine Sia coin otherwise. Do you think it will be similar to setting up an S9? I also don't see Sia coin available on the antpool to mine.

I saw it in the Web of Antpool on 17 an 18 the banner with the stratum ip, but after that disappear. I hope this was a test and on tuesday will be back full operative, when the first A3 will be delivered, I am like you and waiting, i have alternatives to the antpool like a b plan.

[Darknicks]

I am in the US and cannot choose Fed ex even tho I have input my ein into settings.  Is there something else I need to do?

You gotta type an importer no. here: https://shop.bitmain.com/user/addressBook.htm

Yeah, but what in hell do I put there? I read somewhere that for a person the importer number is the SSN + 00, but I'm not sure I can trust that info.

Yeah, you have to type your SSN (I understand your concern with this info), Tax ID or EIN (I use this) or Importer No. (you can get this from the CBP)

[dlezama]

I am in the US and cannot choose Fed ex even tho I have input my ein into settings.  Is there something else I need to do?

You gotta type an importer no. here: https://shop.bitmain.com/user/addressBook.htm

Yeah, but what in hell do I put there? I read somewhere that for a person the importer number is the SSN + 00, but I'm not sure I can trust that info.

Yeah, you have to type your SSN (I understand your concern with this info), Tax ID or EIN (I use this) or Importer No. (you can get this from the CBP)

It's asking me for both importer number and SSN. SSN is not enough. I think I've found an answer I can trust:
"If you do not have an IRS business tax number, you may use your social security number in any paperwork requiring an importer number." From here: https://help.cbp.gov/app/answers/detail/a_id/198/~/importer-numbers
So I'll fill in both SSN and Importer number with my SSN.

[elmejorrematador]

Just received my A3, hooked it up and doesn't seem to be connecting. Tried to go to Antpool, but there is no longer a Siacoin Pool to choose from the dropdown list. Are these A3 miners being blocked?

Tried with miningpoolhub, but nothing seems to be happening.

The hardware version says "Socket connect failed: Connection refused"

Looked into some other pools, but not really sure how you would go about hooking up an ASIC to those. Would I just put it like this:

URL:  sia-asia1.nanopool.org:7777
worker: my sia wallet address?
password: x

Any insight would be appreciated.

[dlezama]

Just received my A3, hooked it up and doesn't seem to be connecting. Tried to go to Antpool, but there is no longer a Siacoin Pool to choose from the dropdown list. Are these A3 miners being blocked?

Tried with miningpoolhub, but nothing seems to be happening.

The hardware version says "Socket connect failed: Connection refused"

Looked into some other pools, but not really sure how you would go about hooking up an ASIC to those. Would I just put it like this:

URL:  sia-asia1.nanopool.org:7777
worker: my sia wallet address?
password: x

Any insight would be appreciated.

Make sure you let it boot entirely. What you see in hardware version is usually because it hasn't yet booted up entirely. In my opinion nanopool is a nice pool. If you don't know what a cryptocurrency wallet address is you have some catch up to do

[elmejorrematador]

Just received my A3, hooked it up and doesn't seem to be connecting. Tried to go to Antpool, but there is no longer a Siacoin Pool to choose from the dropdown list. Are these A3 miners being blocked?

Tried with miningpoolhub, but nothing seems to be happening.

The hardware version says "Socket connect failed: Connection refused"

Looked into some other pools, but not really sure how you would go about hooking up an ASIC to those. Would I just put it like this:

URL:  sia-asia1.nanopool.org:7777
worker: my sia wallet address?
password: x

Any insight would be appreciated.

Make sure you let it boot entirely. What you see in hardware version is usually because it hasn't yet booted up entirely. In my opinion nanopool is a nice pool. If you don't know what a cryptocurrency wallet address is you have some catch up to do

Brother, I'm not an idiot, pretty sure nobody has hooked an asic miner for Sia up to Nanopool. They only offer dual mining from what I've seen, so you have to do ethereum first and Sia 2nd for the set up option they have. I've only used Nanopool for ethereum, so not sure.

Anyway, i let it run with Miningpoolhub and its starting to go...slowly. The lights on the A3 were not lit, then the red would come on, then off, then the green would come on, but it would not blink like the S9 and L3+ to show its working. Will give updates

[eth_mining]

Wow. You are going to make a killing in the first couple of days. Congrats.

[dlezama]

Just received my A3, hooked it up and doesn't seem to be connecting. Tried to go to Antpool, but there is no longer a Siacoin Pool to choose from the dropdown list. Are these A3 miners being blocked?

Tried with miningpoolhub, but nothing seems to be happening.

The hardware version says "Socket connect failed: Connection refused"

Looked into some other pools, but not really sure how you would go about hooking up an ASIC to those. Would I just put it like this:

URL:  sia-asia1.nanopool.org:7777
worker: my sia wallet address?
password: x

Any insight would be appreciated.

Make sure you let it boot entirely. What you see in hardware version is usually because it hasn't yet booted up entirely. In my opinion nanopool is a nice pool. If you don't know what a cryptocurrency wallet address is you have some catch up to do

Brother, I'm not an idiot, pretty sure nobody has hooked an asic miner for Sia up to Nanopool. They only offer dual mining from what I've seen, so you have to do ethereum first and Sia 2nd for the set up option they have. I've only used Nanopool for ethereum, so not sure.

Anyway, i let it run with Miningpoolhub and its starting to go...slowly. The lights on the A3 were not lit, then the red would come on, then off, then the green would come on, but it would not blink like the S9 and L3+ to show its working. Will give updates

You ask for help and then when I try you get angry? Dual mining has nothing to do with it. You can point the Sia part of your dual miner to nanopool and ethereum somewhere else. Worker as your wallet address should be OK, I thought you didn't know what that was. Nobody said you are an idiot, there is no way of knowing your level of knowledge.

[michaellu88]

Just received my A3, hooked it up and doesn't seem to be connecting. Tried to go to Antpool, but there is no longer a Siacoin Pool to choose from the dropdown list. Are these A3 miners being blocked?

Tried with miningpoolhub, but nothing seems to be happening.

The hardware version says "Socket connect failed: Connection refused"

Looked into some other pools, but not really sure how you would go about hooking up an ASIC to those. Would I just put it like this:

URL:  sia-asia1.nanopool.org:7777
worker: my sia wallet address?
password: x

Any insight would be appreciated.

congrats bro, hope you can try few mining pool and let us know the result. My A3 is on the way too. tq

[elmejorrematador]

Nobody is mad, thank you for the advice.

Update:

Been hooked up for about 30 minutes or more. Having some issues it seems.

The worker seem to be connected to MPH, but the max hashrate is 54 GH/s, and I've only mined 2.872 SIA as of now. Still says Socket Connect Failed: connection refused, miner status was showing before (forgot to check the hashrate there), but now its blank again.

Seems to me like these are being blocked or the mining pools aren't ready for these machines (if thats even possible hahaha)

Anyone else got theirs hooked up?

[dlezama]

Nobody is mad, thank you for the advice.

Update:

Been hooked up for about 30 minutes or more. Having some issues it seems.

The worker seem to be connected to MPH, but the max hashrate is 54 GH/s, and I've only mined 2.872 SIA as of now. Still says Socket Connect Failed: connection refused, miner status was showing before (forgot to check the hashrate there), but now its blank again.

Seems to me like these are being blocked or the mining pools aren't ready for these machines (if thats even possible hahaha)

Anyone else got theirs hooked up?

Maybe it's rebooting itself? Check kernel log.

[elmejorrematador]

Green light was blinking for a little while, then red light, then both lights off.  Green light will come on and stay on for quite a while, then stay off for quite a while.

No idea what is normal for these miners, but compared to S9 and L3+ there would seem to be something not right. Still seems to be connected to MPH, but the amount of SIA in the wallet is not changing, only 2.827 still.

I think I am going to try to off and on the machine. Gonna give it a little while longer.

[harper86]

@elmejorrematador have you tried siamining.com's pool?

[elmejorrematador]

@elmejorrematador have you tried siamining.com's pool?

Ok, maybe I am an idiot, not sure what I need to input in the following fields for siamining.com

asia.siamining.com:3333

worker: walletAddress.workername

password: x

Lets see what happens

[dt8666]

Anyone have the A3 connected and success?

It seems like both the Nicehash and miningpoolhub not responding and the A3 just see Red light.

[elmejorrematador]

HERE WE GO!!!!

siamining.com is working well. the problem i think was miningpool hub


THere is the option to overclock, going to monitor the miner for a little while longer then give the overclock a go. You can also control fan speed

[Marvell2]

Nobody is mad, thank you for the advice.

Update:

Been hooked up for about 30 minutes or more. Having some issues it seems.

The worker seem to be connected to MPH, but the max hashrate is 54 GH/s, and I've only mined 2.872 SIA as of now. Still says Socket Connect Failed: connection refused, miner status was showing before (forgot to check the hashrate there), but now its blank again.

Seems to me like these are being blocked or the mining pools aren't ready for these machines (if thats even possible hahaha)

Anyone else got theirs hooked up?

its too fast, check with antpool or suprnova