Bitmain is releasing a 815GH/s Blake(2b) miner called the AntMiner A3

[bitcoin.cash]

We are proud and happy to announce the release of the new Antminer A3, a new Antminer model for mining cryptocurrencies based on the hashing algorithm Blake(2b).

The Antminer A3 delivers a hash rate of 815GH/s (±5%) with a power efficiency of 1.56mJ/MH (+7%).

It is ready to order now and will ship within 10 working days from the time when the order payment is completely received by Bitmain.


Regards,

The Bitmain team

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[bitcoin.cash]

It sold out 2 minutes ago  

https://shop.bitmain.com/productDetail.htm?pid=00020180116164357365a2ljX8gx06D3

[szafa]

Blake(2b) what coins use this algo?

[verba05]

Blake(2b) what coins use this algo?

Siacoin

[bitcoin.cash]

Blake(2b) what coins use this algo?

Siacoin

more than 300 USD mining per day? 

[bitcoin.cash]

They Just tweeted as below

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The Antminer A3 is still in stock. You may intermittently receive the sold out notification, a result of a new way that our team is implementing to avoid hoarding by some retailers. We will announce after the batch is really sold out. Apologies if this causes any inconvenience.

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[bitcoin.cash]

No Available coupon?
I cannot use the coupon?

[bitcoin.cash]

https://whattomine.com/coins/161-sc-blake-2b?utf8=%E2%9C%93&hr=815000.0&p=630.0&fee=0.0&cost=0.1&hcost=0.0&commit=Calculate

[vincl]

so they are aready sold out ? ebay is full of miners already...

[RobbieRich]

Dont focus on ROI ! That is if you are the only one with that Miner ! Look at the D3 !
Only one coin to mine is not it for me !

[toni_maroni]

! Look at the D3 !

exactly

[BioGenesis]

shit I got 400 D3 in my data center and im fucking raping it. I don't know what you noobs are talking about.

[Marvell2]

shit I got 400 D3 in my data center and im fucking raping it. I don't know what you noobs are talking about.

if you had 400 s9 you woukd be doing way better or 400 baikal x10 duh

[joae1975]

Dang, I should have snagged one.  I was chillin at my computer when the email notification came through and could have had it.  But I don't mine anymore.  Cheaper to simply buy coins...especially today.

[mikespax]

Are there any other coins that you'd be able to mine?

[bitcoin.cash]

so they are aready sold out ? ebay is full of miners already...

yes they are sold already.

But according to the latest tweet,

https://twitter.com/BITMAINtech

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Due to technical issues, we have temporarily closed the Antminer A3 batch. We will be re-opening the same batch ASAP. Please stay tuned.
12:43 AM - 17 Jan 2018
==

there was a technical difficulties and will open again soon ....
just standby

[bitcoin.cash]

Dont focus on ROI ! That is if you are the only one with that Miner ! Look at the D3 !
Only one coin to mine is not it for me !

I am afraid so ... after D3 lesson  [ seen 5 days ROI ]

[bitcoin.cash]

shit I got 400 D3 in my data center and im fucking raping it. I don't know what you noobs are talking about.

maybe you can try other x11 coin? MAG? B2X ? or CIF ?

[bitcoin.cash]

Dang, I should have snagged one.  I was chillin at my computer when the email notification came through and could have had it.  But I don't mine anymore.  Cheaper to simply buy coins...especially today.

Easier to buy coins then hodl ? 

[gwoosley]

Anyone know what pool to join in order to mine SIA on the 815GH/s Blake(2b) miner?

[percy_tc]

They accepted only BCH, very sad story.

[0xcosmos]

what a game of centralization bitmain is playing
first most of the processing power for bitcoin is centralized in china and the asic companies such as bitmain
then just accepting bitcoin cash for a pump for bch
and now killing another algo profitability by releasing an asic which will not be remain profitable after a few months

[cioloxl]

Is it true that they only allowed 1 per account? If that's true, they're washing some of the sins they committed with the D3. They've never delivered this fast though. Which leads me to believe that they're really trying their hardest to bankrupt the competition.

[mettalmag]

Dang, I should have snagged one.  I was chillin at my computer when the email notification came through and could have had it.  But I don't mine anymore.  Cheaper to simply buy coins...especially today.

cheaper but with 0 fun
I grabbed one
It will be like D3, but still will be way more fun

[hansminer]

I thought we learned a lesson from the D3 disaster. At least with the D3, there're a few coins using X11 other than DASH you can mine, with Blake (2b) it is only Siacoin. I'm out.

[bitcoin.cash]

It opens again guys ...

Hurry up

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We've just re-opened the same Antminer A3 batch!

To avoid hoarding by resellers and to ensure more users in different time zones can purchase an Antminer A3 unit, we will be re-opening the same batch after every hour beginning 11AM (18 Jan, GMT+8).

Thus, you may intermittently notice that the batch is out of stock. We will announce on our Facebook and Twitter accounts as soon as the batch is completely out of stock.

Regards,

The Bitmain team

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[windhunters]

Available for order once again!

[nikkos]

So what did happen with their D3?

[bitcoin.cash]

Available for order once again!

just checked ... sold out again 

[bitcoin.cash]

So what did happen with their D3?

they sell huge amount of D3, and they are very rich maybe by now 

[bitcoin.cash]

Dang, I should have snagged one.  I was chillin at my computer when the email notification came through and could have had it.  But I don't mine anymore.  Cheaper to simply buy coins...especially today.

cheaper but with 0 fun
I grabbed one
It will be like D3, but still will be way more fun

your fun cost USD 2500 

[bitcoin.cash]

I think I got one ... yippii ... 

[bitcoin.cash]

Is it true that they only allowed 1 per account? If that's true, they're washing some of the sins they committed with the D3. They've never delivered this fast though. Which leads me to believe that they're really trying their hardest to bankrupt the competition.

Yes I just tried , and not allowing me to buy more than one 

[decrypt3d]

It’s bs - why not just simply offer one miner for those who already created a bitmain account?

[joae1975]

Are there any other coins that you'd be able to mine?

Nope, only SC

[mikespax]

Calling all coin devs. Feel free to make some more coins based on the blake 2b algo.

[Savik]

Any thoughts how the price of SC will move now that a ton of hashrate will be coming its way? LTC and Dash blew up after Bitmain released miners, same thing here?

[joae1975]

Any thoughts how the price of SC will move now that a ton of hashrate will be coming its way? LTC and Dash blew up after Bitmain released miners, same thing here?

Well, if history is any indicator.  Yeah, should go up.  I can't think of any coins that crashed after an asic release.

[Victorio]

with Blake (2b) it is only Siacoin. I'm out.

I envision many revivals of half-dead coins with a migration to the Blake2b hashing algorithm or other PoW algos. The last 2 months have shown that forks, coin swaps and the change of consensus rules may launch any trash coin to a ballistic trajectory.
Despite all the hate against Bitmain, they won't leave the business nowhere in the near future. Don't be amazed to see a x3-x10 pump in the midcaps they are targeting.

[bitcoin.cash]

Calling all coin devs. Feel free to make some more coins based on the blake 2b algo.

He he ... there is one coming ...

[bitcoin.cash]

Any thoughts how the price of SC will move now that a ton of hashrate will be coming its way? LTC and Dash blew up after Bitmain released miners, same thing here?

Well, if history is any indicator.  Yeah, should go up.  I can't think of any coins that crashed after an asic release.

Agree, at least they stay ...

[bitcoin.cash]

Anyone know what pool to join in order to mine SIA on the 815GH/s Blake(2b) miner?

https://sia.nanopool.org/help

https://www.cryptocompare.com/mining/guides/how-to-mine-sia-coin/

https://siamining.com/


all mining need
1. url and port
2. username
3. password

we'll just wait

[Chan8]

Anyone know what pool to join in order to mine SIA on the 815GH/s Blake(2b) miner?

https://siamining.com/
https://sia.nanopool.org/
https://mining.luxor.tech/

[bubbagump]

Before anyone else jumps on this, remember that there's already another Siacoin ASIC being shipped from https://obelisk.tech/  They're already doing batch 2 so the hashrate might already skyrocket before these Bitmain ones even ship out.

[Chan8]

Before anyone else jumps on this, remember that there's already another Siacoin ASIC being shipped from https://obelisk.tech/  They're already doing batch 2 so the hashrate might already skyrocket before these Bitmain ones even ship out.

Uhhhh..... and when are these non working prototype obelisk being shipped?

[bubbagump]

Before anyone else jumps on this, remember that there's already another Siacoin ASIC being shipped from https://obelisk.tech/  They're already doing batch 2 so the hashrate might already skyrocket before these Bitmain ones even ship out.

Uhhhh..... and when are these non working prototype obelisk being shipped?

Who knows.  I think the last thing I read was that they were hoping to ship them sometime in the first half of this year or something.  I just don't want anyone wasting their money like they did on the D3 and all of the BTC ASICs from years ago that were useless before they even left the factories.

The Sia dev is talking about possibly forking just to keep Bitmain out lol.  https://www.reddit.com/r/siacoin/comments/7r4spy/dev_team_thoughts_on_the_bitmain_a3/

[hawkfish007]

Before anyone else jumps on this, remember that there's already another Siacoin ASIC being shipped from https://obelisk.tech/  They're already doing batch 2 so the hashrate might already skyrocket before these Bitmain ones even ship out.

A3 is being shipped out, received a shipping notification through FedEx Delivery manager for delivery on Monday    Obelisk batches are scheduled to be shipped in June and August.

[squatz1]

Dang, I should have snagged one.  I was chillin at my computer when the email notification came through and could have had it.  But I don't mine anymore.  Cheaper to simply buy coins...especially today.

I mean in this market even with buying the coins, does it have the same return as it did before? Cause we're not in the same sort of bull market we were before, nor are we in a bear market. We're in something in between.

Wish I got into mining a long time ago, would've made a ton of money throughout all of this. Wish I didn't get into trading alts and BTC but that's what I'm stuck with now.

[Chan8]

Before anyone else jumps on this, remember that there's already another Siacoin ASIC being shipped from https://obelisk.tech/  They're already doing batch 2 so the hashrate might already skyrocket before these Bitmain ones even ship out.

A3 is being shipped out, received a shipping notification through FedEx Delivery manager for delivery on Monday    Obelisk batches are scheduled to be shipped in June and August.

  thats great.. im checking my email frequently now because of you! I managed to pick up a small batch of these also..

[hawkfish007]

Before anyone else jumps on this, remember that there's already another Siacoin ASIC being shipped from https://obelisk.tech/  They're already doing batch 2 so the hashrate might already skyrocket before these Bitmain ones even ship out.

A3 is being shipped out, received a shipping notification through FedEx Delivery manager for delivery on Monday    Obelisk batches are scheduled to be shipped in June and August.

  thats great.. im checking my email frequently now because of you! I managed to pick up a small batch of these also..

My Bitmain account still shows unshipped. Shipping notification received is through FedEx (if you have an account, it let's you know of incoming packages).

[jwarren81]

Nice, just added my new address to Fedex.  No notifcation yet . . . hopefully soon then since I ordered within 10 minutes of it going live.

Before anyone else jumps on this, remember that there's already another Siacoin ASIC being shipped from https://obelisk.tech/  They're already doing batch 2 so the hashrate might already skyrocket before these Bitmain ones even ship out.

A3 is being shipped out, received a shipping notification through FedEx Delivery manager for delivery on Monday    Obelisk batches are scheduled to be shipped in June and August.

  thats great.. im checking my email frequently now because of you! I managed to pick up a small batch of these also..

My Bitmain account still shows unshipped. Shipping notification received is through FedEx (if you have an account, it let's you know of incoming packages).

[nsummy]

Before anyone else jumps on this, remember that there's already another Siacoin ASIC being shipped from https://obelisk.tech/  They're already doing batch 2 so the hashrate might already skyrocket before these Bitmain ones even ship out.

A3 is being shipped out, received a shipping notification through FedEx Delivery manager for delivery on Monday    Obelisk batches are scheduled to be shipped in June and August.

  thats great.. im checking my email frequently now because of you! I managed to pick up a small batch of these also..

My Bitmain account still shows unshipped. Shipping notification received is through FedEx (if you have an account, it let's you know of incoming packages).

Bitmain lets you use Fedex?  Whenever I have selected it I get a popup that says "Please Input Import No"  I always assumed that as an error.

[hawkfish007]

Before anyone else jumps on this, remember that there's already another Siacoin ASIC being shipped from https://obelisk.tech/  They're already doing batch 2 so the hashrate might already skyrocket before these Bitmain ones even ship out.

A3 is being shipped out, received a shipping notification through FedEx Delivery manager for delivery on Monday    Obelisk batches are scheduled to be shipped in June and August.

  thats great.. im checking my email frequently now because of you! I managed to pick up a small batch of these also..

My Bitmain account still shows unshipped. Shipping notification received is through FedEx (if you have an account, it let's you know of incoming packages).

Bitmain lets you use Fedex?  Whenever I have selected it I get a popup that says "Please Input Import No"  I always assumed that as an error.

I have used FedEx for Bitmain orders since S3 becuase they were and are the cheapest of three. If you enter your EIN or SSN, pop-ups stop  

[bitcoin.cash]

Before anyone else jumps on this, remember that there's already another Siacoin ASIC being shipped from https://obelisk.tech/  They're already doing batch 2 so the hashrate might already skyrocket before these Bitmain ones even ship out.

That's why bitmain will ship it 10 working days

[bitcoin.cash]

Before anyone else jumps on this, remember that there's already another Siacoin ASIC being shipped from https://obelisk.tech/  They're already doing batch 2 so the hashrate might already skyrocket before these Bitmain ones even ship out.

Uhhhh..... and when are these non working prototype obelisk being shipped?

Who knows.  I think the last thing I read was that they were hoping to ship them sometime in the first half of this year or something.  I just don't want anyone wasting their money like they did on the D3 and all of the BTC ASICs from years ago that were useless before they even left the factories.

The Sia dev is talking about possibly forking just to keep Bitmain out lol.  https://www.reddit.com/r/siacoin/comments/7r4spy/dev_team_thoughts_on_the_bitmain_a3/

Uuppsss .... currently on block 138893 and will be forked on 139000

I hope I received before the fork and got ROI 

[bitcoin.cash]

Before anyone else jumps on this, remember that there's already another Siacoin ASIC being shipped from https://obelisk.tech/  They're already doing batch 2 so the hashrate might already skyrocket before these Bitmain ones even ship out.

A3 is being shipped out, received a shipping notification through FedEx Delivery manager for delivery on Monday    Obelisk batches are scheduled to be shipped in June and August.

How long does it take for you to receive it?

I hope I received it earlier 

[bitcoin.cash]

Before anyone else jumps on this, remember that there's already another Siacoin ASIC being shipped from https://obelisk.tech/  They're already doing batch 2 so the hashrate might already skyrocket before these Bitmain ones even ship out.

A3 is being shipped out, received a shipping notification through FedEx Delivery manager for delivery on Monday    Obelisk batches are scheduled to be shipped in June and August.

  thats great.. im checking my email frequently now because of you! I managed to pick up a small batch of these also..

My Bitmain account still shows unshipped. Shipping notification received is through FedEx (if you have an account, it let's you know of incoming packages).

Bitmain lets you use Fedex?  Whenever I have selected it I get a popup that says "Please Input Import No"  I always assumed that as an error.

this is for certain amount of USD ... 2370 USD I don't think we need that Import no ... CMIIW

[bubbagump]

Before anyone else jumps on this, remember that there's already another Siacoin ASIC being shipped from https://obelisk.tech/  They're already doing batch 2 so the hashrate might already skyrocket before these Bitmain ones even ship out.

Uhhhh..... and when are these non working prototype obelisk being shipped?

Who knows.  I think the last thing I read was that they were hoping to ship them sometime in the first half of this year or something.  I just don't want anyone wasting their money like they did on the D3 and all of the BTC ASICs from years ago that were useless before they even left the factories.

The Sia dev is talking about possibly forking just to keep Bitmain out lol.  https://www.reddit.com/r/siacoin/comments/7r4spy/dev_team_thoughts_on_the_bitmain_a3/

Uuppsss .... currently on block 138893 and will be forked on 139000

I hope I received before the fork and got ROI 

I think that fork was just to address the difficulty bug but I don't know for sure.  Right now, I think the only thing you have to worry about is potentially too many A3s driving the difficulty too high to ROI, but I don't know how many of them were sold.

[bitcoin.cash]

Before anyone else jumps on this, remember that there's already another Siacoin ASIC being shipped from https://obelisk.tech/  They're already doing batch 2 so the hashrate might already skyrocket before these Bitmain ones even ship out.

Uhhhh..... and when are these non working prototype obelisk being shipped?

Who knows.  I think the last thing I read was that they were hoping to ship them sometime in the first half of this year or something.  I just don't want anyone wasting their money like they did on the D3 and all of the BTC ASICs from years ago that were useless before they even left the factories.

The Sia dev is talking about possibly forking just to keep Bitmain out lol.  https://www.reddit.com/r/siacoin/comments/7r4spy/dev_team_thoughts_on_the_bitmain_a3/

Uuppsss .... currently on block 138893 and will be forked on 139000

I hope I received before the fork and got ROI 

I think that fork was just to address the difficulty bug but I don't know for sure.  Right now, I think the only thing you have to worry about is potentially too many A3s driving the difficulty too high to ROI, but I don't know how many of them were sold.

I will directly mine as soon as I receive it ....it's a race .. ha ha ha

[willi9974]

Before anyone else jumps on this, remember that there's already another Siacoin ASIC being shipped from https://obelisk.tech/  They're already doing batch 2 so the hashrate might already skyrocket before these Bitmain ones even ship out.

A3 is being shipped out, received a shipping notification through FedEx Delivery manager for delivery on Monday    Obelisk batches are scheduled to be shipped in June and August.

  thats great.. im checking my email frequently now because of you! I managed to pick up a small batch of these also..

My Bitmain account still shows unshipped. Shipping notification received is through FedEx (if you have an account, it let's you know of incoming packages).

Bitmain lets you use Fedex?  Whenever I have selected it I get a popup that says "Please Input Import No"  I always assumed that as an error.

I have used FedEx for Bitmain orders since S3 becuase they were and are the cheapest of three. If you enter your EIN or SSN, pop-ups stop  

what is the EIN or SSN? can you explain this short

[Kapz786]

Wasn't the fork threat more about Bitmains ethical practices in the mining community more than just competition for the other device?

I read as they are taking a "wait and see" approach before implementing any soft fork

[CryptoCrane]

Before anyone else jumps on this, remember that there's already another Siacoin ASIC being shipped from https://obelisk.tech/  They're already doing batch 2 so the hashrate might already skyrocket before these Bitmain ones even ship out.

A3 is being shipped out, received a shipping notification through FedEx Delivery manager for delivery on Monday    Obelisk batches are scheduled to be shipped in June and August.

  thats great.. im checking my email frequently now because of you! I managed to pick up a small batch of these also..

My Bitmain account still shows unshipped. Shipping notification received is through FedEx (if you have an account, it let's you know of incoming packages).

Bitmain lets you use Fedex?  Whenever I have selected it I get a popup that says "Please Input Import No"  I always assumed that as an error.

I have used FedEx for Bitmain orders since S3 becuase they were and are the cheapest of three. If you enter your EIN or SSN, pop-ups stop  

what is the EIN or SSN? can you explain this short

EIN is a tax ID for US companies. SSN is a tax ID for US individuals. You should only enter the EIN or the SSN, but not both.

[willi9974]

ok, im from germany, so i have only a german tax id

[CryptoCrane]

Wasn't the fork threat more about Bitmains ethical practices in the mining community more than just competition for the other device?

I read as they are taking a "wait and see" approach before implementing any soft fork

Exactly. They will not make a move unless they start to see empty blocks being mined or a 51% attack. Bitmain is unlikely to do either of these things because they have the common sense not to. They know that damaging the (currently) small mining community for Siacoin would only hurt Sia, and thus hurt their sales of Sia mining ASICs.

[bitcoin.cash]

Wasn't the fork threat more about Bitmains ethical practices in the mining community more than just competition for the other device?

I read as they are taking a "wait and see" approach before implementing any soft fork

Bitmain ethical practices?
In my opinion they do a normal business practice ?

[Kapz786]

Wasn't the fork threat more about Bitmains ethical practices in the mining community more than just competition for the other device?

I read as they are taking a "wait and see" approach before implementing any soft fork

Bitmain ethical practices?
In my opinion they do a normal business practice ?

Its certainly debatable amongst the community particularly with pre order wait times and after sales support at the least

[dlezama]

Don't confuse the hard fork of block 139000 with the soft fork to fight bitmain. The hard block will happen and make block time average be 10 mins instead of 30. Minted coins will multiply by 3, happy miners. The other one I won't go into.

[Chan8]

Wasn't the fork threat more about Bitmains ethical practices in the mining community more than just competition for the other device?

I read as they are taking a "wait and see" approach before implementing any soft fork

Exactly. They will not make a move unless they start to see empty blocks being mined or a 51% attack. Bitmain is unlikely to do either of these things because they have the common sense not to. They know that damaging the (currently) small mining community for Siacoin would only hurt Sia, and thus hurt their sales of Sia mining ASICs.

Hmmm seems like they are trying to protect obelisk(sia devs) customers.. is this not concerning?
Mention more about miners and profitability? Shilling obelisk and bias towards bitmain?

[Intellecual Romanticist]

I wanna have at one of those but I cant afford them. GG.
Maybe next year.

[greyday]

I wanna have at one of those but I cant afford them. GG.
Maybe next year.

It'll probably be earning about the same next year too. Since we won't get ours until a week after big Chinese farms and all...

I'm hedging bets and am dual mining Sia until the difficulty goes up.

[bitcoin.cash]

this one below worried me ...
is there anything happen with bitmain which we don't know?

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Thank you for contacting us. We are off site from 15th-25th Jan., working to improve our company and find ways to serve you better. Replies will be delayed more than usual. Please be patient - we will get back to you in a few days.

Our working hours are 9am-6pm Beijing time (GMT+8) from Monday to Friday.
We are working hard to respond quickly to every query.
----

[DrJury]

the difficulty will rise so hard after 1-2 batches that the A3 will not be profitable.. like the D3

1 day after the D3 release everybody posted calculators with earnings of 8000usd per month.. look where are we since weeks

[Kapz786]

this one below worried me ...
is there anything happen with bitmain which we don't know?

----
Thank you for contacting us. We are off site from 15th-25th Jan., working to improve our company and find ways to serve you better. Replies will be delayed more than usual. Please be patient - we will get back to you in a few days.

Our working hours are 9am-6pm Beijing time (GMT+8) from Monday to Friday.
We are working hard to respond quickly to every query.
----

Maybe the admin guys are off on a junket or something. It's not like they are known for fast response time anyway

[Chan8]

this one below worried me ...
is there anything happen with bitmain which we don't know?

----
Thank you for contacting us. We are off site from 15th-25th Jan., working to improve our company and find ways to serve you better. Replies will be delayed more than usual. Please be patient - we will get back to you in a few days.

Our working hours are 9am-6pm Beijing time (GMT+8) from Monday to Friday.
We are working hard to respond quickly to every query.
----

Nothing to be concern about.. whenever i deal with bitmain, im never worried..

[greyday]

this one below worried me ...
is there anything happen with bitmain which we don't know?

----
Thank you for contacting us. We are off site from 15th-25th Jan., working to improve our company and find ways to serve you better. Replies will be delayed more than usual. Please be patient - we will get back to you in a few days.

Our working hours are 9am-6pm Beijing time (GMT+8) from Monday to Friday.
We are working hard to respond quickly to every query.
----

Considering the turnaround on the A3s, I'd assume they're all packaging and labeling shipments all week or so.

Also I sent a question and they got back to me within a day. They didn't, you know, answer it or anything, but they tried.

[hawkfish007]

Before anyone else jumps on this, remember that there's already another Siacoin ASIC being shipped from https://obelisk.tech/  They're already doing batch 2 so the hashrate might already skyrocket before these Bitmain ones even ship out.

A3 is being shipped out, received a shipping notification through FedEx Delivery manager for delivery on Monday    Obelisk batches are scheduled to be shipped in June and August.

How long does it take for you to receive it?

I hope I received it earlier 

Usually 2 days but because of the weekend delivery is in 3 days.

[hawkfish007]

Before anyone else jumps on this, remember that there's already another Siacoin ASIC being shipped from https://obelisk.tech/  They're already doing batch 2 so the hashrate might already skyrocket before these Bitmain ones even ship out.

A3 is being shipped out, received a shipping notification through FedEx Delivery manager for delivery on Monday    Obelisk batches are scheduled to be shipped in June and August.

  thats great.. im checking my email frequently now because of you! I managed to pick up a small batch of these also..

My Bitmain account still shows unshipped. Shipping notification received is through FedEx (if you have an account, it let's you know of incoming packages).

Bitmain lets you use Fedex?  Whenever I have selected it I get a popup that says "Please Input Import No"  I always assumed that as an error.

I have used FedEx for Bitmain orders since S3 becuase they were and are the cheapest of three. If you enter your EIN or SSN, pop-ups stop  

what is the EIN or SSN? can you explain this short

EIN is the employer identification number (if you have a registered business or LLC) and SSN is social security number. I am guessing this is a way for customs to track how many rigs one is getting and assessing fees, and that is very low for US customers usually just have to pay brokerage fee.

[Kayaman85]

Dang, missed it. Would only buy from the first batch now days since the whole D3 incident. So hopefully they release more new types of miners sooonnnn

[nsummy]

Before anyone else jumps on this, remember that there's already another Siacoin ASIC being shipped from https://obelisk.tech/  They're already doing batch 2 so the hashrate might already skyrocket before these Bitmain ones even ship out.

A3 is being shipped out, received a shipping notification through FedEx Delivery manager for delivery on Monday    Obelisk batches are scheduled to be shipped in June and August.

  thats great.. im checking my email frequently now because of you! I managed to pick up a small batch of these also..

My Bitmain account still shows unshipped. Shipping notification received is through FedEx (if you have an account, it let's you know of incoming packages).

Bitmain lets you use Fedex?  Whenever I have selected it I get a popup that says "Please Input Import No"  I always assumed that as an error.

I have used FedEx for Bitmain orders since S3 becuase they were and are the cheapest of three. If you enter your EIN or SSN, pop-ups stop  

Where do you enter it at?  In that special instructions box or is there a place in your profile?  I don't think I saw a field for it.

[hawkfish007]

Before anyone else jumps on this, remember that there's already another Siacoin ASIC being shipped from https://obelisk.tech/  They're already doing batch 2 so the hashrate might already skyrocket before these Bitmain ones even ship out.

A3 is being shipped out, received a shipping notification through FedEx Delivery manager for delivery on Monday    Obelisk batches are scheduled to be shipped in June and August.

  thats great.. im checking my email frequently now because of you! I managed to pick up a small batch of these also..

My Bitmain account still shows unshipped. Shipping notification received is through FedEx (if you have an account, it let's you know of incoming packages).

Bitmain lets you use Fedex?  Whenever I have selected it I get a popup that says "Please Input Import No"  I always assumed that as an error.

I have used FedEx for Bitmain orders since S3 becuase they were and are the cheapest of three. If you enter your EIN or SSN, pop-ups stop  

Where do you enter it at?  In that special instructions box or is there a place in your profile?  I don't think I saw a field for it.

On order page next to your address where you select carrier, click edit and it will pop up a new window where you can add EIN or SSN. It can be done now by adding a PSU to cart without completing the order, so you can be ready for future orders.

[willi9974]

What for an Exchange do you use for Exchange your Sia Coins in a other crypto like BTC oder ETH, etc...?
And will you mine directly into our Exchange Sia adress or in a Sia Wallet on you PC?

Best Regards
Willi

[dlezama]

Before anyone else jumps on this, remember that there's already another Siacoin ASIC being shipped from https://obelisk.tech/  They're already doing batch 2 so the hashrate might already skyrocket before these Bitmain ones even ship out.

A3 is being shipped out, received a shipping notification through FedEx Delivery manager for delivery on Monday    Obelisk batches are scheduled to be shipped in June and August.

  thats great.. im checking my email frequently now because of you! I managed to pick up a small batch of these also..

My Bitmain account still shows unshipped. Shipping notification received is through FedEx (if you have an account, it let's you know of incoming packages).

Bitmain lets you use Fedex?  Whenever I have selected it I get a popup that says "Please Input Import No"  I always assumed that as an error.

I have used FedEx for Bitmain orders since S3 becuase they were and are the cheapest of three. If you enter your EIN or SSN, pop-ups stop  

Where do you enter it at?  In that special instructions box or is there a place in your profile?  I don't think I saw a field for it.

On order page next to your address where you select carrier, click edit and it will pop up a new window where you can add EIN or SSN. It can be done now by adding a PSU to cart without completing the order, so you can be ready for future orders.

Thanks for sharing, I'm considering it, but Do I want to give my SSN to bitmain? 

[bitcoin.cash]

Officially sold out now ...

The batch was completely sold out yesterday (GMT+8). The shipping schedule is as promised i.e. shipping starts within ten working days from the time the complete payment was received.

the good things now is that bitmain limit the order quantity to reduce those naughty reseller

[hawkfish007]

Before anyone else jumps on this, remember that there's already another Siacoin ASIC being shipped from https://obelisk.tech/  They're already doing batch 2 so the hashrate might already skyrocket before these Bitmain ones even ship out.

A3 is being shipped out, received a shipping notification through FedEx Delivery manager for delivery on Monday    Obelisk batches are scheduled to be shipped in June and August.

  thats great.. im checking my email frequently now because of you! I managed to pick up a small batch of these also..

My Bitmain account still shows unshipped. Shipping notification received is through FedEx (if you have an account, it let's you know of incoming packages).

Bitmain lets you use Fedex?  Whenever I have selected it I get a popup that says "Please Input Import No"  I always assumed that as an error.

I have used FedEx for Bitmain orders since S3 becuase they were and are the cheapest of three. If you enter your EIN or SSN, pop-ups stop  

Where do you enter it at?  In that special instructions box or is there a place in your profile?  I don't think I saw a field for it.

On order page next to your address where you select carrier, click edit and it will pop up a new window where you can add EIN or SSN. It can be done now by adding a PSU to cart without completing the order, so you can be ready for future orders.

Thanks for sharing, I'm considering it, but Do I want to give my SSN to bitmain? 

Chances are it's already out their from Equifax breach waiting for buyers    I have used EIN. 

[bitcoin.cash]

this one below worried me ...
is there anything happen with bitmain which we don't know?

----
Thank you for contacting us. We are off site from 15th-25th Jan., working to improve our company and find ways to serve you better. Replies will be delayed more than usual. Please be patient - we will get back to you in a few days.

Our working hours are 9am-6pm Beijing time (GMT+8) from Monday to Friday.
We are working hard to respond quickly to every query.
----

Nothing to be concern about.. whenever i deal with bitmain, im never worried..

This specific one that I never see on their email

" working to improve our company and find ways to serve you better "

Heee

[VoskCoin]

If anyone's interested on all the recent debate around the antminer a3 / sia dev's softforking it here's my 2c and some research

https://youtu.be/ADK6SUGfb6w

[bitcoin.cash]

Before anyone else jumps on this, remember that there's already another Siacoin ASIC being shipped from https://obelisk.tech/  They're already doing batch 2 so the hashrate might already skyrocket before these Bitmain ones even ship out.

A3 is being shipped out, received a shipping notification through FedEx Delivery manager for delivery on Monday    Obelisk batches are scheduled to be shipped in June and August.

How long does it take for you to receive it?

I hope I received it earlier 

Usually 2 days but because of the weekend delivery is in 3 days.

Lucky for you .. you will be one of the first to mine and to load all of the coins

[bitcoin.cash]

Dang, missed it. Would only buy from the first batch now days since the whole D3 incident. So hopefully they release more new types of miners sooonnnn

wait for equihash?

follow their twitter account not to be late for the info updates

[bitcoin.cash]

If anyone's interested on all the recent debate around the antminer a3 / sia dev's softforking it here's my 2c and some research

https://youtu.be/ADK6SUGfb6w

nice video ...
I wish there will be no debate ... do synergy or consensus better

[bitcoin.cash]

my payment not confirmed yet 

[Stockypotty]

My payment wasn't confirmed for a bit but then came through, just give it a bit and if everything went through fine it will update.

[VoskCoin]

If anyone's interested on all the recent debate around the antminer a3 / sia dev's softforking it here's my 2c and some research

https://youtu.be/ADK6SUGfb6w

nice video ...
I wish there will be no debate ... do synergy or consensus better

Thank you, and yeah me too... will be exciting to watch!

[does]

man that was quick

Dash story here it comes again

[dlezama]

Before anyone else jumps on this, remember that there's already another Siacoin ASIC being shipped from https://obelisk.tech/  They're already doing batch 2 so the hashrate might already skyrocket before these Bitmain ones even ship out.

A3 is being shipped out, received a shipping notification through FedEx Delivery manager for delivery on Monday    Obelisk batches are scheduled to be shipped in June and August.

  thats great.. im checking my email frequently now because of you! I managed to pick up a small batch of these also..

My Bitmain account still shows unshipped. Shipping notification received is through FedEx (if you have an account, it let's you know of incoming packages).

Bitmain lets you use Fedex?  Whenever I have selected it I get a popup that says "Please Input Import No"  I always assumed that as an error.

I have used FedEx for Bitmain orders since S3 becuase they were and are the cheapest of three. If you enter your EIN or SSN, pop-ups stop  

Where do you enter it at?  In that special instructions box or is there a place in your profile?  I don't think I saw a field for it.

On order page next to your address where you select carrier, click edit and it will pop up a new window where you can add EIN or SSN. It can be done now by adding a PSU to cart without completing the order, so you can be ready for future orders.

I added it in the EIN/SSN field but it still asks for the import no. Probably I have to fill the actual "Importer Number" field? Anyone got this to work?

[cashen]

Mine will be here Tuesday.

[bitcoin.cash]

man that was quick

Dash story here it comes again

It's a crypto economy, we need all of those areas ...
If you believe the sia coin business case ... then a good to go to invest

in my oppinion dash business case is better than sia one

so A3 could be worse , dunno ...

[bitcoin.cash]

Before anyone else jumps on this, remember that there's already another Siacoin ASIC being shipped from https://obelisk.tech/  They're already doing batch 2 so the hashrate might already skyrocket before these Bitmain ones even ship out.

A3 is being shipped out, received a shipping notification through FedEx Delivery manager for delivery on Monday    Obelisk batches are scheduled to be shipped in June and August.

  thats great.. im checking my email frequently now because of you! I managed to pick up a small batch of these also..

My Bitmain account still shows unshipped. Shipping notification received is through FedEx (if you have an account, it let's you know of incoming packages).

Bitmain lets you use Fedex?  Whenever I have selected it I get a popup that says "Please Input Import No"  I always assumed that as an error.

I have used FedEx for Bitmain orders since S3 becuase they were and are the cheapest of three. If you enter your EIN or SSN, pop-ups stop  

Where do you enter it at?  In that special instructions box or is there a place in your profile?  I don't think I saw a field for it.

On order page next to your address where you select carrier, click edit and it will pop up a new window where you can add EIN or SSN. It can be done now by adding a PSU to cart without completing the order, so you can be ready for future orders.

I added it in the EIN/SSN field but it still asks for the import no. Probably I have to fill the actual "Importer Number" field? Anyone got this to work?

I never put anything ... just click everytime I order

[bitcoin.cash]

Mine will be here Tuesday.

Envy you 

[bitcoin.cash]

What for an Exchange do you use for Exchange your Sia Coins in a other crypto like BTC oder ETH, etc...?
And will you mine directly into our Exchange Sia adress or in a Sia Wallet on you PC?

Best Regards
Willi

Mine direct to exchange wallet is ok ...

[willi9974]

I have no good feeling by Poloniex, at the moment is the Sia Wallet temp. disabled
I think this happend many times on Poloniex

I think it is better to Mine in my local Wallet

If the Antminer fload the market, will the Price Go Up or down? What is your feeling ?

[bitcoin.cash]

I have no good feeling by Poloniex, at the moment is the Sia Wallet temp. disabled
I think this happend many times on Poloniex

I think it is better to Mine in my local Wallet

If the Antminer fload the market, will the Price Go Up or down? What is your feeling ?

It is a simple question but very difficult to answer ...

to flood the market has a negative connotation. Bitmain is in business world and their objective is to get the money and sustain the business.

The price go up or go down depend on many things ... technically and fundamentally

but simply go up and go down is a market mechanism of supply and demand ....
you need to trace further ... what create the demand , and how they supply

do some research, read slowly ... it is fascinating

later you will have a feeling ... to jump in or to exit ...

[Hendrikclaasen]

Anyone recieved A3 yet?    Please update us on performance.....

[bitcoin.cash]

Anyone recieved A3 yet?    Please update us on performance.....

For me , even the payment not confirmed yet 

[Hendrikclaasen]

My status is:
Paid
Unshipped
Valid

[bitcoin.cash]

My status is:
Paid
Unshipped
Valid

you got email confirmation ? "your order paid" ...

[Hendrikclaasen]

My status is:
Paid
Unshipped
Valid

you got email confirmation ? "your order paid" ...

Hi Yes - I did receive the email

[bitcoin.cash]

My status is:
Paid
Unshipped
Valid

you got email confirmation ? "your order paid" ...

Hi Yes - I did receive the email

Congrats !!! , next is an email confirmation of shipment  . somehting like " BITMAIN order shipped"  from webmaster

[bigassboy]

Anyone recieved A3 yet?    Please update us on performance.....

2 hours mining and so far 700 siacoin, average speed registered on pool is 800gh/s. So far smooth..

[bitcoin.cash]

Anyone recieved A3 yet?    Please update us on performance.....

2 hours mining and so far 700 siacoin, average speed registered on pool is 800gh/s. So far smooth..

You received when? where is your location?

so around 28 USD per 2 hours   

[bigassboy]

Anyone recieved A3 yet?    Please update us on performance.....

2 hours mining and so far 700 siacoin, average speed registered on pool is 800gh/s. So far smooth..

You received when? where is your location?

so around 28 USD per 2 hours   

today, I run it as soon it arrives, I’m located in south east Asia

[uzas]

Anyone recieved A3 yet?    Please update us on performance.....

2 hours mining and so far 700 siacoin, average speed registered on pool is 800gh/s. So far smooth..

You received when? where is your location?

so around 28 USD per 2 hours   

today, I run it as soon it arrives, I’m located in south east Asia

On what pool are you running it?
And what exchange do you use for sia?

[bigassboy]

Anyone recieved A3 yet?    Please update us on performance.....

2 hours mining and so far 700 siacoin, average speed registered on pool is 800gh/s. So far smooth..

You received when? where is your location?

so around 28 USD per 2 hours   

today, I run it as soon it arrives, I’m located in south east Asia

On what pool are you running it?
And what exchange do you use for sia?

luxor to bittrex. I chose poloniex first but their wallet under maintenance.

[bitcoin.cash]

directly to bittrex walet ?

[bitcoin.cash]

Anyone recieved A3 yet?    Please update us on performance.....

2 hours mining and so far 700 siacoin, average speed registered on pool is 800gh/s. So far smooth..

You received when? where is your location?

so around 28 USD per 2 hours   

today, I run it as soon it arrives, I’m located in south east Asia

more noisy than S9 ?

[denax]

Could the A3 firmware be modified to mine Blake2s instead of Blake2b?  To mine Verge...

[Hendrikclaasen]

Anyone recieved A3 yet?    Please update us on performance.....

2 hours mining and so far 700 siacoin, average speed registered on pool is 800gh/s. So far smooth..

You received when? where is your location?

so around 28 USD per 2 hours   

today, I run it as soon it arrives, I’m located in south east Asia

WOW!      Please bitmain ship my miner!

[bigassboy]

Yes, direct to bittrex and I’m not mistaken payout is every 500 coins. As for the noise, I couldn’t really tell because it was parked next to all the antminers, LOL!!

[bitcoin.cash]

Could the A3 firmware be modified to mine Blake2s instead of Blake2b?  To mine Verge...

That's great idea , ... I'll be looking forward to it too   

[batteryshop]

Order shows SHIPPED this morning

[bitcoin.cash]

Order shows SHIPPED this morning

good luck , how long will you receive it?

[batteryshop]

I think earliest on tomorrow, as ship from Shenzhen to Hong Kong, within 100KM

[bitcoin.cash]

Heee they confirmed my payment 

[bitcoin.cash]

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ev59dz/bitmain-siacoin-obelisk-asic-vorick

What Happens When a Chinese Giant Swoops In on Your Tiny Cryptocurrency
Bitmain maintains a near-monopoly on Bitcoin hardware, now it’s coming for Siacoin.

 A Chinese cryptocurrency mining giant just swooped in on a tiny cryptocurrency with some high-end hardware, and the developers behind the US-based Siacoin are worried that a foreign shake-up is on the horizon.

The cryptocurrency world hasn’t been the same since specialized Bitcoin mining hardware called ASICs first hit the scene back in 2013. Unlike the versatile graphics cards and CPUs found in everyday computers that were originally used to mine Bitcoin, ASICs–short for application-specific integrated circuits—are made to do only one thing incredibly efficiently: Mine cryptocurrency.

 One of the side effects of the adoption of ASICs by miners is they turned cryptocurrency mining from a niche hobby into a massive industry with a high financial barrier to entry (ASICs cost around $2,000 apiece, and the biggest operators have warehouses full of them). And in the world of ASIC cryptocurrency mining, a Chinese hardware company called Bitmain is king. Not only is Bitmain a chief supplier of ASICs, but it also operates two of the world’s largest Bitcoin mining operations that together account for 39 percent of the entire network’s mining power.

Read More: Cryptocurrency Miners are Fueling a GPU Shortage

On Wednesday, Bitmain announced it was expanding its mining operations with the Antminer A3, a new ASIC specifically made for a hashing algorithm called BLAKE(2b). This matters, because at the time of writing a small cryptocurrency called Siacoin is one of only two cryptocurrencies that uses BLAKE(2b); the other, Raiblocks, is worth $16 USD per coin compared to Siacoin’s five cents. In comparison, one bitcoin is worth roughly $12,000 at the time of writing. Not only will Bitmain be mining Siacoin itself (though it’s uncertain how much Siacoin mining power is operated by Bitmain), but on Tuesday it also began selling A3 miners to anybody who can pay.

This is worrying for Siacoin—the currency of blockchain-based data management platform Sia, which has aspirations of being integrated by Netflix—since large miners have a degree of power in blockchain-based systems. If one company manages to capture more than half of the entire network’s total mining power, for example, they could execute blockchain-damaging attacks. Enlarged status in the community is a factor, too; last year Bitmain played a role in splitting the Bitcoin network in two, which created a competing cryptocurrency called Bitcoin Cash.

 Not everyone is happy about Bitmain swooping in like this—namely Siacoin co-founder David Vorick, who plans to release his own ASICs for Siacoin in June. Suddenly, Vorick and his ASIC company, called Obelisk, are in competition with a Chinese giant that has a near-monopoly on Bitcoin mining hardware. And making things worse, it’s already beat him to market to mine his own cryptocurrency. On Wednesday, Vorick posted his displeasure to Reddit, saying that the Siacoin developers are worried.

“As a developer, Bitmain moving into the Sia space makes me uneasy,” Vorick wrote in a Reddit post on Wednesday. “Bitmain has historically been extremely greedy, and very willing to sacrifice the well-being of the community, of their customers, and of the ecosystem if it means they can make a couple of extra dollars.”

Vorick cited Bitmain’s reported 50 percent margins on its hardware and perceived overselling as the reasons for his criticisms.

“Bitmain will sell more units than the Sia ecosystem can sustain, and many people end up with large losses,” Vorick wrote in the Reddit post. “Bitmain will not end up with losses, because they were paid up-front with non-refundable money.”

The main concern among Siacoin developers, according to Vorick, is that the influx of powerful Bitmain miners will likely drive out less capable GPU and CPU miners on the Siacoin network, centralizing Siacoin mining. And because the difficulty of mining Siacoin increases in proportion to the network’s total mining power—meaning that ASICs will be extremely profitable at first, but mine more slowly over time—mining could be less lucrative for customers who’ve pre-ordered Obelisk ASICs by the time they arrive.

In his Reddit post, Vorick broached the possibility that the Siacoin community could implement a change to the mining code so that the Bitmain ASICs would be unusable. However, he noted that this would probably hurt Bitmain customers in the Siacoin community more than Bitmain itself, since the company does the vast majority of its business in other cryptocurrencies and all its ASICs are non-refundable (for what it’s worth, so are Obelisk’s). So, it seems like cooler heads will prevail.

“As much as I would like to punch Bitmain in the nose, I don’t think a [code change] achieves what we want,” Vorick wrote on Reddit.
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Indeed, implementing code changes to block various ASICs could turn into a game of Whack-a-Mole—soon after Bitmain started selling their Siacoin ASIC miners on Tuesday afternoon, another Chinese company called Halong Mining announced it is also developing a Siacoin ASIC, although the company has yet to bring an ASIC to market. Vorick told me in a Reddit direct message that he has heard rumors that another company might also be developing a Siacoin ASIC in the coming months.

“That means Sia has 4 hardware companies competing and shipping product in Q1 and Q2 of 2018,” Vorick told me in a direct message over Reddit. “Our biggest fear was that one company would come in and control everything.” But, he admitted, “that seems very unlikely at this point.”

Still, depending on how many A3s Bitmain sells, there’s still a very real possibility that Vorick’s fears could be realized if Bitmain floods the market before the Obelisk and Halong ASICs are even shipped. Either way, Siacoin’s predicament is a fascinating look at a young cryptocurrency in the middle of tumultuous technological change.

[VoskCoin]

Took a shot at doing a livestream, still a total noob w/ it but I showcase my A3 and some if its numbers plus you can click the googl link to watch my miner

https://youtu.be/ZGVbadJQnCk



https://goo.gl/S3o5Yz
Here's my miner on siamining for those interested running in ~75 F environment

[gauldicus]

Nice One mate, i hope you get  good few weeks at the current rate, you'll have plenty of extra $$$ 

[VoskCoin]

Hey guys put together a thread on my Bitmain Antminer A3 results and will post some additional info and updates into it for those that are interested

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2813143


https://youtu.be/6ZFx35ilUwQ


If anyone is curious you can view my A3 here https://goo.gl/S3o5Yz

[VoskCoin]

Nice One mate, i hope you get  good few weeks at the current rate, you'll have plenty of extra $$$ 

haha hopefully before SIA gets mad and bricks it!

[Victorio]

Damn, I was hoping Bitmain had done Bitmain things with A3 - delaying the dispatch for weeks, shipping without PSUs.
Now it's clear why the net hashrate increased 40% in 2 days 

[winmon]

It must be nice......

[MisterT63]

Siamining.com or sia.luxor.tech are the two famous Sia mining pools.  Nicehash also has it but i cant get it working. I imagine Antpool also has since are making the machines but there is no link on their website yet

[bitcoin.cash]

Took a shot at doing a livestream, still a total noob w/ it but I showcase my A3 and some if its numbers plus you can click the googl link to watch my miner

https://youtu.be/ZGVbadJQnCk



https://goo.gl/S3o5Yz
Here's my miner on siamining for those interested running in ~75 F environment

Happy mining .. what is the earning now?

Where you buy that racks 

[bitcoin.cash]

Nice One mate, i hope you get  good few weeks at the current rate, you'll have plenty of extra $$$ 

haha hopefully before SIA gets mad and bricks it!

Why should SIA gets mad?
in this economy, they should thanks as it will increase the demand and the number of sia transaction right?

[bitcoin.cash]

Damn, I was hoping Bitmain had done Bitmain things with A3 - delaying the dispatch for weeks, shipping without PSUs.
Now it's clear why the net hashrate increased 40% in 2 days 

wait for 4 6 8 days to come

[bitcoin.cash]

Siamining.com or sia.luxor.tech are the two famous Sia mining pools.  Nicehash also has it but i cant get it working. I imagine Antpool also has since are making the machines but there is no link on their website yet

do you have any reviews of the two?
which one you use?

[bitcoin.cash]

BTW SIA services offering is just like bitcoin file? BIFI ?

[dlezama]

Leaving this here for A3 owners, in case they are new to the Sia community: https://www.reddit.com/r/siacoin/comments/7slr57/something_stinks_in_the_world_of_a3s_and_mining/

[bitcoin.cash]

Leaving this here for A3 owners, in case they are new to the Sia community: https://www.reddit.com/r/siacoin/comments/7slr57/something_stinks_in_the_world_of_a3s_and_mining/

Interesting ...

thanks for sharing

[Hendrikclaasen]

Waiting for my A3 - DHL - status from Monday 22 Jan "Shipment information received".
How long do you think before I get it?

[bitcoin.cash]

Waiting for my A3 - DHL - status from Monday 22 Jan "Shipment information received".
How long do you think before I get it?

same here ... 

where is your location?

[Hendrikclaasen]

Waiting for my A3 - DHL - status from Monday 22 Jan "Shipment information received".
How long do you think before I get it?

same here ... 

where is your location?

South Africa and you?

[bitcoin.cash]

Waiting for my A3 - DHL - status from Monday 22 Jan "Shipment information received".
How long do you think before I get it?

same here ... 

where is your location?

South Africa and you?

Somewhere between south africa and china ...
so I should get it first , ha ha 

[bitcoin.cash]

I think earliest on tomorrow, as ship from Shenzhen to Hong Kong, within 100KM

Arrived yet? how is the mining going on?

[bitcoin.cash]

anybody know which exchange best support sia coin?
I see so many complaints about hitbtc?

[Hendrikclaasen]

anybody know which exchange best support sia coin?
I see so many complaints about hitbtc?

bittrex?

[greyday]

Siamining.com or sia.luxor.tech are the two famous Sia mining pools.  Nicehash also has it but i cant get it working. I imagine Antpool also has since are making the machines but there is no link on their website yet

Nanopool as well, I've been using them for claymore dual for a while and they're good.

[willi9974]

very loud :-)
it is possible to reduce the fan to 50%
what is the max temp for the Temp(PCB) / Temp(Chip)?

[greyday]

A bunch of them must have arrived today, last night my dual mining was 4 days away from reaching the minimum payout amount. Today it's 20.

[bitcoin.cash]

anybody know which exchange best support sia coin?
I see so many complaints about hitbtc?

bittrex?

I will try bittrex then

[bitcoin.cash]

very loud :-)
it is possible to reduce the fan to 50%
what is the max temp for the Temp(PCB) / Temp(Chip)?

for other miner L3+, D3, S9 , I keep it under 80 always

[bitcoin.cash]

A bunch of them must have arrived today, last night my dual mining was 4 days away from reaching the minimum payout amount. Today it's 20.

20 USD per day you mean?

[greyday]

A bunch of them must have arrived today, last night my dual mining was 4 days away from reaching the minimum payout amount. Today it's 20.

20 USD per day you mean?

No, 20 days from reaching payout. Today I stopped dual mining because it said the payout date was incalculable, so that balance will sit there until my A3 arrives I guess.

[bitcoin.cash]

received the miner ... directly set up and start mining ...

got only 64 USD per day 

[MiningDoc]

very loud :-)
it is possible to reduce the fan to 50%
what is the max temp for the Temp(PCB) / Temp(Chip)?

for other miner L3+, D3, S9 , I keep it under 80 always

Seems like the A3 runs loud and hot.... mid to high 70's was average even with it being cool outside while it was running.  Not sure why they put so many chips in them.  I think they could have made it a 600 GH miner and people would have paid the same price for it.  At least then it would have run a bit cooler and not draw sooo much power.  900-1000 watts would have been a better range in my oppinion.  Good luck running these in the summer.

[MiningDoc]

received the miner ... directly set up and start mining ...

got only 64 USD per day 

Mine arrived Yesterday after noon, set it up and was mining 115 sia per hour initially.  By this moring it was down to 85ish sia per hour.  My guess is the bulk of these have now arrived and set up and should settle somewhere around $50 per day.  Really wish I used Fedex as those were arriving 4 days ago, but I went with UPS and a damn $72 import fee.

[bitcoin.cash]

very loud :-)
it is possible to reduce the fan to 50%
what is the max temp for the Temp(PCB) / Temp(Chip)?

for other miner L3+, D3, S9 , I keep it under 80 always

Seems like the A3 runs loud and hot.... mid to high 70's was average even with it being cool outside while it was running.  Not sure why they put so many chips in them.  I think they could have made it a 600 GH miner and people would have paid the same price for it.  At least then it would have run a bit cooler and not draw sooo much power.  900-1000 watts would have been a better range in my oppinion.  Good luck running these in the summer.

Agree ...
I set up default setting ... temp reach more than 90 
Then set the frequency to 500 , all chip's temp under 80.
Although mining with lower hash rate ...

[bitcoin.cash]

received the miner ... directly set up and start mining ...

got only 64 USD per day 

Mine arrived Yesterday after noon, set it up and was mining 115 sia per hour initially.  By this moring it was down to 85ish sia per hour.  My guess is the bulk of these have now arrived and set up and should settle somewhere around $50 per day.  Really wish I used Fedex as those were arriving 4 days ago, but I went with UPS and a damn $72 import fee.

I always use fedex now , cheaper and faster
what else you can ask     

[MiningDoc]

received the miner ... directly set up and start mining ...

got only 64 USD per day 

Mine arrived Yesterday after noon, set it up and was mining 115 sia per hour initially.  By this moring it was down to 85ish sia per hour.  My guess is the bulk of these have now arrived and set up and should settle somewhere around $50 per day.  Really wish I used Fedex as those were arriving 4 days ago, but I went with UPS and a damn $72 import fee.

I always use fedex now , cheaper and faster
what else you can ask     

Yeah, it seems it went FedEx (first deliveries), UPS second, DHL third from all the posts I'm reading.

[greyday]

received the miner ... directly set up and start mining ...

got only 64 USD per day 

Mine arrived Yesterday after noon, set it up and was mining 115 sia per hour initially.  By this moring it was down to 85ish sia per hour.  My guess is the bulk of these have now arrived and set up and should settle somewhere around $50 per day.  Really wish I used Fedex as those were arriving 4 days ago, but I went with UPS and a damn $72 import fee.

I always use fedex now , cheaper and faster
what else you can ask     

Yeah, it seems it went FedEx (first deliveries), UPS second, DHL third from all the posts I'm reading.

Usually that is true for me too, but this time UPS delivered within two days of the miner shipping (which happened more like 7-8 days from payment), so I'm pretty happy this time around. But yes, i should probably use Fedex if I order from Bitmain in the future.

[bitcoin.cash]

received the miner ... directly set up and start mining ...

got only 64 USD per day 

Mine arrived Yesterday after noon, set it up and was mining 115 sia per hour initially.  By this moring it was down to 85ish sia per hour.  My guess is the bulk of these have now arrived and set up and should settle somewhere around $50 per day.  Really wish I used Fedex as those were arriving 4 days ago, but I went with UPS and a damn $72 import fee.

I always use fedex now , cheaper and faster
what else you can ask     

Yeah, it seems it went FedEx (first deliveries), UPS second, DHL third from all the posts I'm reading.

how much do you make for one day mining? and which pool?

[bitcoin.cash]

received the miner ... directly set up and start mining ...

got only 64 USD per day 

Mine arrived Yesterday after noon, set it up and was mining 115 sia per hour initially.  By this moring it was down to 85ish sia per hour.  My guess is the bulk of these have now arrived and set up and should settle somewhere around $50 per day.  Really wish I used Fedex as those were arriving 4 days ago, but I went with UPS and a damn $72 import fee.

I always use fedex now , cheaper and faster
what else you can ask     

Yeah, it seems it went FedEx (first deliveries), UPS second, DHL third from all the posts I'm reading.

Usually that is true for me too, but this time UPS delivered within two days of the miner shipping (which happened more like 7-8 days from payment), so I'm pretty happy this time around. But yes, i should probably use Fedex if I order from Bitmain in the future.

what mining pool you are using? and how is the earning?

[greyday]

Usually that is true for me too, but this time UPS delivered within two days of the miner shipping (which happened more like 7-8 days from payment), so I'm pretty happy this time around. But yes, i should probably use Fedex if I order from Bitmain in the future.

what mining pool you are using? and how is the earning?

sia.luxor.tech

It's the best one I could find, and I've been pretty happy with them so far, though I still have around 800s from dual mining sitting in Nanopool, so I'll have to point it there at some point for a bit to hit the payout.

My current earnings are around 1,800-2,000s/d depending on luck, but I expect that to drop.

[bitcoin.cash]

They release a new batch ...
Be prepared for the hikes of hashrate and difficulties 

Dear user,

We will be releasing a new batch of the Antminer A3, the Blake(2b) miner, today!

Please note that:

1. Just like all previous batches of the Antminer A3, this batch, too, will have a limit of one miner per user.

2. To prevent hoarding by anyone or anybody and to allow more users in different time zones to purchase units in this batch, the same batch will be released four times starting at 2PM. The remaining releases will be at 4PM, 9PM and 10PM (29 January, GMT+8). As the stock in each release is limited, we suggest that you confirm your order by payment while the stock lasts.

3. All these releases will have an equal stock and same ship-out date.

4. This batch will not be available to purchase for shipping addresses located in Hong Kong.

5. All confirmed orders in this batch will start shipping after 15 March 2018.

6. Only Bitcoin Cash (BCH) will be accepted as payment method for this batch. Please choose the payment method within 30 minutes of your order submission or otherwise, your order will be EXPIRED.

7. After successfully selecting the payment method, please complete the USD wire payment for your order within 7 days, the Bitcoin cash (BCH) payment for your order within one hour, or, otherwise, your order will be EXPIRED.

When you make an order on the Bitmain website, the system automatically calculates the shipping cost to your address for the products that you have chosen. You will see the shipping cost and can make changes before you confirm your order.

For more information on how to place your order please see this article on our website.

We would like you to receive your shipment promptly and so request that you prepare in advance for the customs clearance in your country to avoid delays or even unexpected costs.

Please leave us a message via support.bitmain.com if you have additional questions or concerns.

We wish you a very happy mining experience.

Best regards,

The Bitmain team

[fabry1999]

They release a new batch ...
Be prepared for the hikes of hashrate and difficulties 

Dear user,

We will be releasing a new batch of the Antminer A3, the Blake(2b) miner, today!

Please note that:

1. Just like all previous batches of the Antminer A3, this batch, too, will have a limit of one miner per user.

2. To prevent hoarding by anyone or anybody and to allow more users in different time zones to purchase units in this batch, the same batch will be released four times starting at 2PM. The remaining releases will be at 4PM, 9PM and 10PM (29 January, GMT+8). As the stock in each release is limited, we suggest that you confirm your order by payment while the stock lasts.

3. All these releases will have an equal stock and same ship-out date.

4. This batch will not be available to purchase for shipping addresses located in Hong Kong.

5. All confirmed orders in this batch will start shipping after 15 March 2018.

6. Only Bitcoin Cash (BCH) will be accepted as payment method for this batch. Please choose the payment method within 30 minutes of your order submission or otherwise, your order will be EXPIRED.

7. After successfully selecting the payment method, please complete the USD wire payment for your order within 7 days, the Bitcoin cash (BCH) payment for your order within one hour, or, otherwise, your order will be EXPIRED.

When you make an order on the Bitmain website, the system automatically calculates the shipping cost to your address for the products that you have chosen. You will see the shipping cost and can make changes before you confirm your order.

For more information on how to place your order please see this article on our website.

We would like you to receive your shipment promptly and so request that you prepare in advance for the customs clearance in your country to avoid delays or even unexpected costs.

Please leave us a message via support.bitmain.com if you have additional questions or concerns.

We wish you a very happy mining experience.

Best regards,

The Bitmain team

This is worst than D3 .....within few weeks you will loose money on this ASIC

[bitcoin.cash]

It is 980 USD for March shipment 

[cryqtovn83]

I don't suggest getting the A3's... their income level will be very low by March i think.  only first batch release are going to be somewhat profitable still. Now diff increase super fast and that should be lost for you. just my opinion

[bitcoin.cash]

They release a new batch ...
Be prepared for the hikes of hashrate and difficulties 

Dear user,

We will be releasing a new batch of the Antminer A3, the Blake(2b) miner, today!

Please note that:

1. Just like all previous batches of the Antminer A3, this batch, too, will have a limit of one miner per user.

2. To prevent hoarding by anyone or anybody and to allow more users in different time zones to purchase units in this batch, the same batch will be released four times starting at 2PM. The remaining releases will be at 4PM, 9PM and 10PM (29 January, GMT+8). As the stock in each release is limited, we suggest that you confirm your order by payment while the stock lasts.

3. All these releases will have an equal stock and same ship-out date.

4. This batch will not be available to purchase for shipping addresses located in Hong Kong.

5. All confirmed orders in this batch will start shipping after 15 March 2018.

6. Only Bitcoin Cash (BCH) will be accepted as payment method for this batch. Please choose the payment method within 30 minutes of your order submission or otherwise, your order will be EXPIRED.

7. After successfully selecting the payment method, please complete the USD wire payment for your order within 7 days, the Bitcoin cash (BCH) payment for your order within one hour, or, otherwise, your order will be EXPIRED.

When you make an order on the Bitmain website, the system automatically calculates the shipping cost to your address for the products that you have chosen. You will see the shipping cost and can make changes before you confirm your order.

For more information on how to place your order please see this article on our website.

We would like you to receive your shipment promptly and so request that you prepare in advance for the customs clearance in your country to avoid delays or even unexpected costs.

Please leave us a message via support.bitmain.com if you have additional questions or concerns.

We wish you a very happy mining experience.

Best regards,

The Bitmain team

This is worst than D3 .....within few weeks you will loose money on this ASIC

they cancel the sale due to technical difficulties

[fabry1999]

What kind of sales policy is using Bitmain

If the A3 will be worst than D3 in terms of revenue, who will buy the next Asic that Bitmain will release ?

What kind of credibility will have Bitmain ?


... sorry for my bad english !

[dlezama]

What kind of sales policy is using Bitmain

If the A3 will be worst than D3 in terms of revenue, who will buy the next Asic that Bitmain will release ?

What kind of credibility will have Bitmain ?


... sorry for my bad english !

As you said, D3 happened, do they have any problem selling?

[bitcoin.cash]

Dear user,

Our web shop system is crrently facing unexpected technical issues with order payments.

Because of this we have decided to cancel the Antminer A3 batch releases that were scheduled for 4PM, 9PM and 10PM today (29 January, GMT+8).

If you manged to succesfully place an order during the 2PM batch release today, you need not worry because your order will be shipped as scheduled.

For those who were unable to order during the 2PM batch release or those who planned to order during the other releases today, please stay tuned for the same batch's release at another time this week. We will announce this by email and on our social media accounts as soon as we have resolved our web shop issues and have finalized a time for it.

We apologize for any inconvenience that this sudden cancellation may have caused.

We will continue to investigate this issue to prevent it from occuring again.

Regards,

The Bitmain team

[bitcoin.cash]

What kind of sales policy is using Bitmain

If the A3 will be worst than D3 in terms of revenue, who will buy the next Asic that Bitmain will release ?

What kind of credibility will have Bitmain ?


... sorry for my bad english !

That's why they sell it for 980 USD 

[bitcoin.cash]

Usually that is true for me too, but this time UPS delivered within two days of the miner shipping (which happened more like 7-8 days from payment), so I'm pretty happy this time around. But yes, i should probably use Fedex if I order from Bitmain in the future.

what mining pool you are using? and how is the earning?

sia.luxor.tech

It's the best one I could find, and I've been pretty happy with them so far, though I still have around 800s from dual mining sitting in Nanopool, so I'll have to point it there at some point for a bit to hit the payout.

My current earnings are around 1,800-2,000s/d depending on luck, but I expect that to drop.

after reading some feedback on the internet, i avoid luxor and mine at siamining instead

[greyday]

sia.luxor.tech

It's the best one I could find, and I've been pretty happy with them so far, though I still have around 800s from dual mining sitting in Nanopool, so I'll have to point it there at some point for a bit to hit the payout.

My current earnings are around 1,800-2,000s/d depending on luck, but I expect that to drop.

after reading some feedback on the internet, i avoid luxor and mine at siamining instead

Fair enough! I'm still earning pretty solidly and getting regular payouts from Luxor so I plan to stick with them. How's siamining working out?

[greyday]

What kind of sales policy is using Bitmain

If the A3 will be worst than D3 in terms of revenue, who will buy the next Asic that Bitmain will release ?

What kind of credibility will have Bitmain ?


... sorry for my bad english !

That's why they sell it for 980 USD 

Yup. It would seem they learned from the D3 debacle.

Since this doesn't ship until March I actually think this was a good call on their part. The markup on the initial batch is recovered in the first week of mining, and the lower price makes a later batch more appealing. I'm content with just the one A3 (I'm more of a gpu miner anyway), but if I hadn't ordered in the first batch I would definitely consider the second at this price point...

[Rody81]

Wouldn't it make sense for people who ordered in the first batch to jump on another one for $980 to average the cost of the miners?

[Marvell2]

Wouldn't it make sense for people who ordered in the first batch to jump on another one for $980 to average the cause of the miners?

yeah i  might i already have 3 mining now

[legalexpress]

Dear user,

Our web shop system is crrently facing unexpected technical issues with order payments.

Because of this we have decided to cancel the Antminer A3 batch releases that were scheduled for 4PM, 9PM and 10PM today (29 January, GMT+8).

If you manged to succesfully place an order during the 2PM batch release today, you need not worry because your order will be shipped as scheduled.

For those who were unable to order during the 2PM batch release or those who planned to order during the other releases today, please stay tuned for the same batch's release at another time this week. We will announce this by email and on our social media accounts as soon as we have resolved our web shop issues and have finalized a time for it.

We apologize for any inconvenience that this sudden cancellation may have caused.

We will continue to investigate this issue to prevent it from occuring again.

Regards,

The Bitmain team

So, when will you reopen the site?

[greyday]

Wouldn't it make sense for people who ordered in the first batch to jump on another one for $980 to average the cost of the miners?

Maybe. It really depends on what happens with the coin and the difficulty, because if it goes the route of the D3 it will be a lot faster to recoup the $2300 or whatever at the current rate than it will be to recoup $980 at, say, $3/day profit.

[bitcoin.cash]

Isn't it interesting? see below

https://twitter.com/BITMAINtech/status/957620387558260736

We'd like to offer a $800 @BITMAINtech discount coupon to every @ObeliskTechHQ coupon holder. We look forward to collaborating with the @ObeliskTechHQ team to finalize the details. Stay tuned for more information on this.

[MiningDoc]

Dear user,

Our web shop system is crrently facing unexpected technical issues with order payments.

Because of this we have decided to cancel the Antminer A3 batch releases that were scheduled for 4PM, 9PM and 10PM today (29 January, GMT+8).

If you manged to succesfully place an order during the 2PM batch release today, you need not worry because your order will be shipped as scheduled.

For those who were unable to order during the 2PM batch release or those who planned to order during the other releases today, please stay tuned for the same batch's release at another time this week. We will announce this by email and on our social media accounts as soon as we have resolved our web shop issues and have finalized a time for it.

We apologize for any inconvenience that this sudden cancellation may have caused.

We will continue to investigate this issue to prevent it from occuring again.

Regards,

The Bitmain team

So, when will you reopen the site?

From the email I got, those batch 2 A3's are not shipping until march 15th.  They have plenty of time to reopen the orders

[bitcoin.cash]

Dear user,

We will be reopening the batch of the Antminer A3, the Blake(2b) miner, tomorrow.
 

Please note that:

1. Just like previous batches of the Antminer A3, this batch, too, will have a limit of one miner per user.

2. To prevent hoarding by anyone or anybody and to allow more users in different time zones to purchase units in this batch, the same batch will be released five times starting at 9AM. The remaining releases will be at 12PM, 3PM, 6PM and 9PM (31 January, GMT+8).

3. All these releases will have an equal stock and same ship-out date. As the stock in each release is limited, we suggest that you confirm your order by payment while the stocks last.

4. This batch will not be available to purchase for shipping addresses located in Hong Kong.

5. All confirmed orders will start shipping after 15 March 2018.

6. Only Bitcoin Cash (BCH) will be accepted as payment method for this batch. Please select the payment method within 30 minutes of your order submission or otherwise, your order will be EXPIRED.

7. After successfully selecting the payment method, please complete the Bitcoin cash (BCH) payment for your order within one hour, or, otherwise, your order will be EXPIRED.

 

When you make an order on the Bitmain website, the system automatically calculates the shipping cost to your address for the products that you have chosen. You will see the shipping cost and can make changes before you confirm your order.

For more information on how to place your order please see this article on our website.

We would like you to receive your shipment promptly and so request that you prepare in advance for the customs clearance in your country to avoid delays or even unexpected costs.

Please let us know via support.bitmain.com if you have additional questions or concerns.

We wish you a very happy mining experience.

Best regards,

The Bitmain team

[bitcoin.cash]

Dear user,

Our web shop system is crrently facing unexpected technical issues with order payments.

Because of this we have decided to cancel the Antminer A3 batch releases that were scheduled for 4PM, 9PM and 10PM today (29 January, GMT+8).

If you manged to succesfully place an order during the 2PM batch release today, you need not worry because your order will be shipped as scheduled.

For those who were unable to order during the 2PM batch release or those who planned to order during the other releases today, please stay tuned for the same batch's release at another time this week. We will announce this by email and on our social media accounts as soon as we have resolved our web shop issues and have finalized a time for it.

We apologize for any inconvenience that this sudden cancellation may have caused.

We will continue to investigate this issue to prevent it from occuring again.

Regards,

The Bitmain team

So, when will you reopen the site?

tomorrow

[caleb150]

Can the miner be modify to mine blake2s? The difference of Blake2b and blake2s is the but only. One is 64bit and the other is 32bit. How flexible is the A3 firmware. Can the frequency and fan speed is manually adjusted?

[Savik]

Isn't it interesting? see below

https://twitter.com/BITMAINtech/status/957620387558260736

We'd like to offer a $800 @BITMAINtech discount coupon to every @ObeliskTechHQ coupon holder. We look forward to collaborating with the @ObeliskTechHQ team to finalize the details. Stay tuned for more information on this.

I am sure Bitmain truly doesn't care about launching a 51% attack on Sia, they just want to maintain dominance in the miner industry. If Bitmain and Obelisk teams can work together then this would be huge for the Sia network and community as a whole.

[kalunomics]

I already checked out the a3 with PSU at 0.87BCH rate and about to make the payment before learning that Blake 2b algorithm is only being used by Siacoin only. I am not going through with the payment anymore,  I knew the miner would be useless after a few months but my thoughts was to use it on new coins with Blake 2b algorithm. I also noticed that the miners has been up for grab for more than 2hours now which was impossible with the first batch release; meaning people are no longer interested in buying them anymore.  I'm out

[bitcoin.cash]

Can the miner be modify to mine blake2s? The difference of Blake2b and blake2s is the but only. One is 64bit and the other is 32bit. How flexible is the A3 firmware. Can the frequency and fan speed is manually adjusted?

This is a good
we will wait some firmware hack from brilliant asic developer

[bitcoin.cash]

Isn't it interesting? see below

https://twitter.com/BITMAINtech/status/957620387558260736

We'd like to offer a $800 @BITMAINtech discount coupon to every @ObeliskTechHQ coupon holder. We look forward to collaborating with the @ObeliskTechHQ team to finalize the details. Stay tuned for more information on this.

I am sure Bitmain truly doesn't care about launching a 51% attack on Sia, they just want to maintain dominance in the miner industry. If Bitmain and Obelisk teams can work together then this would be huge for the Sia network and community as a whole.

This is good for community to make the miner more decntralized.
However last batch is 980 USd , so I don't think they come to an agreement

[bitcoin.cash]

I already checked out the a3 with PSU at 0.87BCH rate and about to make the payment before learning that Blake 2b algorithm is only being used by Siacoin only. I am not going through with the payment anymore,  I knew the miner would be useless after a few months but my thoughts was to use it on new coins with Blake 2b algorithm. I also noticed that the miners has been up for grab for more than 2hours now which was impossible with the first batch release; meaning people are no longer interested in buying them anymore.  I'm out

Hoping that there will be a new coin with the same POW

Usually when the asic miner come to the market, it shows the confidence of the market ( at least the asic miner producer ) with the coin. So the it will enrich the community.

I believe the ROI will take longer, but .. the coin will stay and last .

[torkel]

Hi

does somebody know if there will be another coin to mine in the future with the Black2b Algorithm?

[nsummy]

Hi

does somebody know if there will be another coin to mine in the future with the Black2b Algorithm?

Anything is possible but I would say unlikely.  A lot of these asic coins you see pop up are little more than clones of another coin.  Considering SIA has an actual token-like use I think it would be more difficult to clone.  Maybe someday though a mutl-algo coin would be created that implements blake2b