Announcement: Bitmain launches AntMiner solution, 0.68 J/GH on chip

[klondike_bar]

>30% off Black Friday Deals

Special Sales for ANTMINER S4, 0.409USD/GH/s, FREE International Shipping. Shipping on Dec. 2nd

Might want to mention that you are forced to buy SIXTEEN units of S4.
Also that coupons are not applicable.
And finally that without coupons being accepted, that the price per unit works out to being $818. Which is $18 MORE than buying a single unit with a coupon.

Shipping appears to be included. For a change.
Customs fees I highly doubt are included. As usual.

Unless you are in the market to buy 16 units, this is not an actual sale. And even then you save very very very little. Basically cheaper shipping.

How about actually giving 30% off the price of a single S4, and still allow the coupons..... so it is not completely and utterly useless to everyone, as this so-called "sale" currently is.

The 'sale' is actually a very fair price to medium-level and larger buyers.
You can use 1 coupon ($400) per 16-pack. That makes the final price (shipping included) $12,688 - or $397/TH. Thats cheaper than 16 units purchased individually with coupons, particularly considering that the price includes about $2000 discount on shipping costs you would otherwise pay. Thats about 1BTC/TH WITH PSUs DELIVERED.

in contrast, the SP20 deal works out to around $415/TH and does not include power supplies (another $40-70/TH) and do not rack-mount.
noone includes the custom fees in their price - every customer pays different fees depending on country and personal/business use.

IMO, would love to see a 4-pack/$3400 (shipping included) option for the smaller miners.

[StormTheFront]

BEFORE SHIPPING:
16 individual units -        34.081 BTC ( 12800 USD )
Brack Friday Bunduru -    33.834 BTC ( 12688 USD )

$122 somehow works out to 30%  of $12,800??


SHIPPING INCLUDED
16 individual units -        40.234 BTC ( 15109.95 USD )
Brack Friday Bunduru -    33.834 BTC ( 12688 USD )

so you do end up saving significant shipping costs..... if you live on the opposite side of the world. Not so much if you live in China.



Being forced to purchase 16 units, just to save on shipping costs, is not a "sale" IMHO.
Especially when shipping was included on everything, up until not so long ago.
Buyer beware.

[Tupsu]

The 'sale' is actually a very fair price to medium-level and larger buyers.
You can use 1 coupon ($400) per 16-pack. That makes the final price (shipping included) $12,688 - or $397/TH. Thats cheaper than 16 units purchased individually with coupons, particularly considering that the price includes about $2000 discount on shipping costs you would otherwise pay. Thats about 1BTC/TH WITH PSUs DELIVERED.

in contrast, the SP20 deal works out to around $415/TH and does not include power supplies (another $40-70/TH) and do not rack-mount.
noone includes the custom fees in their price - every customer pays different fees depending on country and personal/business use.

IMO, would love to see a 4-pack/$3400 (shipping included) option for the smaller miners.

A much better deal is 15x  SP20 
Cyber Monday Special Price: SP20 Mini Farm Batch 1 $10,425.00 +free shipping.
$695 per miner.

You can easily underclock/undervolt SP20 to 0.55w/GH to extend the lifespan and you are still 1200GH/s miner.
You will not be able to do this with Antminer S4, S3 or even C1

SP20 be more expensive, but much longer lifetime for mining.

The most important. If you buy the SP20, then get a new miner, not "2 months tested" miner.

[Mudbankkeith]

BEFORE SHIPPING:
16 individual units -        34.081 BTC ( 12800 USD )
Brack Friday Bunduru -    33.834 BTC ( 12688 USD )

$122 somehow works out to 30%  of $12,800??


SHIPPING INCLUDED
16 individual units -        40.234 BTC ( 15109.95 USD )
Brack Friday Bunduru -    33.834 BTC ( 12688 USD )

so you do end up saving significant shipping costs..... if you live on the opposite side of the world. Not so much if you live in China.



Being forced to purchase 16 units, just to save on shipping costs, is not a "sale" IMHO.
Especially when shipping was included on everything, up until not so long ago.
Buyer beware.

Try importing 16 units with a declared value of $12,000  into the UK

The "HM revenue & customs" will declare you a "Commercial Buyer" and require a vat number before allowing delivery.

Then you will need to produce "accounts" to show what you have done with them.

Edit:-  even one unit of the S4 will attract a tax challenge.

[pak13]

Perhaps Dogie can clarify these "specials" for us.

[samsonn25]

Tell the UK custms the 15 sp20 will only roi 9 btc so the value is really only $3300  and tax on that.

[pak13]

The 'sale' is actually a very fair price to medium-level and larger buyers.
You can use 1 coupon ($400) per 16-pack. That makes the final price (shipping included) $12,688 - or $397/TH. Thats cheaper than 16 units purchased individually with coupons, particularly considering that the price includes about $2000 discount on shipping costs you would otherwise pay. Thats about 1BTC/TH WITH PSUs DELIVERED.

in contrast, the SP20 deal works out to around $415/TH and does not include power supplies (another $40-70/TH) and do not rack-mount.
noone includes the custom fees in their price - every customer pays different fees depending on country and personal/business use.

IMO, would love to see a 4-pack/$3400 (shipping included) option for the smaller miners.

A much better deal is 15x  SP20 
Cyber Monday Special Price: SP20 Mini Farm Batch 1 $10,425.00 +free shipping.
$695 per miner.

You can easily underclock/undervolt SP20 to 0.55w/GH to extend the lifespan and you are still 1200GH/s miner.
You will not be able to do this with Antminer S4, S3 or even C1

SP20 be more expensive, but much longer lifetime for mining.

The most important. If you buy the SP20, then get a new miner, not "2 months tested" miner.

Also you know they aren't going to build an SP20 mining farm, like bitmain already did with their S2's, to compete with their retails sales to us. How long till we see an S4 bitmain farm. Not a "testing farm" that is.

[allcoinminer]

All the current set of miners whatever company its is almost outdated.
We need new 15nm or near 15nm technology now to fire up the btc now.
Hope BitMain learned many lessons from their S2, S3, S4, other and will come with an old style S1 type product again.
With 17nm or 15 nm and a proper pricing will make home miner back into the race.
Or, only cloud miner from now onwards, world is changing.

[whoami1]

I was having a problem with my AntMiner S3+ that had become unresponsive and inaccessible after I ticked a wrong check box while trying to get fancy with the network config.  I was trying to connect the miner via WiFi, and also use it as an access point for my Raspberry Pi that's running a Gridseed, and I bridged the wrong two interfaces.  I've seen a lot of posts in this thread with suggestions on how to fix it, but they are all either incorrect, incomplete, or unclear.

First off, no amount of fiddling with the reset button did anything at all, and I tried for many hours.  Pressing the button once does nothing, holding it down for >10sec makes it restart as does double-clicking it, holding the button and then starting it up will just cause it not to boot.  Someone said to start it, wait 3 minutes, hold the button for 15 seconds, do that again, and power cycle it... which didn't work, either.

I was able to fix it by connecting to the serial debugging port on the interface board with a USB to serial adapter, and editing the /etc/config/networking file with the correct settings and rebooting.  The post that gave me the hint about the serial port was a little ambiguous on the TX/RX pinouts, so I wanted to post a pic that should be self-explanatory.  I'm using a Parallax 'Propeller Plug' that I got for about $10 when I built a Propeller on a breadboard.  The driver makes it show up as a regular COM port, and I used PuTTY under Windows to connect to it.  The pin headers are just sitting in there, the worst that might happen with a loose connection is some corrupt characters in the terminal.  The reset pin is not needed.

Hope it helps!

https://i.imgur.com/Dm9NdoR.jpg

Hello,

my miner do not start because i try to update the firmware and the power was gone..
so now the miner start but only the red flash is flashing and i can not connect via LAN.

i try the debug ( thants for the pic, you are the only man in the internet that show this.. )

but i have problems whit my debug


My Miner: Antminer S3

my result:

Start only Miner:

Code:

¦¦UI¦¦?1.1.4 (Apr 11 2013 - 01:45:00)

U-boot for ELink, build by huangfc(QQ:343669866)

Taobao:http://huangfc.taobao.com

model:ELink M150
DRAM:  64 MB
lE¦¦?¦¦¦¦on for 1s...
id read 0x100000ff
flash size 8388608, sector count = 128
Flash:  8 MB
U¦¦default environment

In:    serial
Out:   serial
Err:   serial
Net:   ag7240_enet_initialize...
: cfg1 0x5 cfg2 0x7114
eth0: 00:03:7f:ff:ff:ff
eth0 up
: cfg1 0xf cfg2 0x7214
eth1: 00:03:7f:ff:ff:fe
athrs26_reg_init_lan
ATHRS26: resetting s26
ATHRS26: s26 reset done
eth1 up
eth0, eth1
Autobooting in 1 seconds,Press p to stop autoboot!!
## Booting image at 9f020000 ...
   Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK

Starting kernel ...

[    0.000000] Linux version 3.10.12 (xxl@ubuntu) (gcc version 4.6.4 (OpenWrt/Linaro GCC 4.6-2013.05 r38031) ) #140 Mon Jul 21 17:27:04 CST 2014
[    0.000000] bootconsole [early0] enabled
[    0.000000] CPU revision is: 00019374 (MIPS 24Kc)
[    0.000000] SoC: Atheros AR9330 rev 1
[    0.000000] Clocks: CPU:400.000MHz, DDR:400.000MHz, AHB:200.000MHz, Ref:25.000MHz
[    0.000000] Determined physical RAM map:
[    0.000000]  memory: 04000000 @ 00000000 (usable)
[    0.000000] Initrd not found or empty - disabling initrd
[    0.000000] Zone ranges:
[    0.000000]   Normal   [mem 0x00000000-0x03ffffff]
[    0.000000] Movable zone start for each node
[    0.000000] Early memory node ranges
[    0.000000]   node   0: [mem 0x00000000-0x03ffffff]
[    0.000000] Primary instruction cache 64kB, VIPT, 4-way, linesize 32 bytes.
[    0.000000] Primary data cache 32kB, 4-way, VIPT, cache aliases, linesize 32 bytes
[    0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 16256
[    0.000000] Kernel command line:  board=TL-WR741ND-v4 console=ttyATH0,115200 rootfstype=squashfs,jffs2 noinitrd
[    0.000000] PID hash table entries: 256 (order: -2, 1024 bytes)
[    0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[    0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[    0.000000] Writing ErrCtl register=00000000
[    0.000000] Readback ErrCtl register=00000000
[    0.000000] Memory: 61336k/65536k available (2187k kernel code, 4200k reserved, 588k data, 232k init, 0k highmem)
[    0.000000] SLUB: HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
[    0.000000] NR_IRQS:51
[    0.000000] Calibrating delay loop... 265.42 BogoMIPS (lpj=1327104)
[    0.080000] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[    0.080000] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
[    0.090000] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[    0.100000] MIPS: machine is TP-LINK TL-WR741ND v4
[    0.100000] MAC FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
[    0.100000] MAC 20:59:a0:c9:47:0e
[    0.560000] bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0
[    0.560000] Switching to clocksource MIPS
[    0.570000] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[    0.570000] TCP established hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[    0.580000] TCP bind hash table entries: 512 (order: -1, 2048 bytes)
[    0.580000] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 512 bind 512)
[    0.590000] TCP: reno registered
[    0.590000] UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[    0.600000] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[    0.610000] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[    0.630000] squashfs: version 4.0 (2009/01/31) Phillip Lougher
[    0.630000] jffs2: version 2.2 (NAND) (SUMMARY) (LZMA) (RTIME) (CMODE_PRIORITY) (c) 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
[    0.640000] msgmni has been set to 119
[    0.650000] io scheduler noop registered
[    0.650000] io scheduler deadline registered (default)
[    0.650000] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 1 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
[    0.660000] ar933x-uart: ttyATH0 at MMIO 0x18020000 (irq = 11) is a AR933X UART
[    0.670000] console [ttyATH0] enabled, bootconsole disabled
[    0.670000] console [ttyATH0] enabled, bootconsole disabled
[    0.680000] ath79-spi ath79-spi: master is unqueued, this is deprecated
[    0.690000] m25p80 spi0.0: unrecognized JEDEC id 014017
[    0.710000] libphy: ag71xx_mdio: probed
[    0.710000] eth0: Atheros AG71xx at 0xba000000, irq 5, mode:GMII
[    1.260000] eth0: Found an AR7240/AR9330 built-in switch
[    2.300000] eth1: Atheros AG71xx at 0xb9000000, irq 4, mode:MII
[    2.850000] ag71xx ag71xx.0 eth1: connected to PHY at ag71xx-mdio.1:04 [uid=004dd041, driver=Generic PHY]
[    2.860000] TCP: cubic registered
[    2.860000] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[    2.870000] 8021q: 802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8
[    2.870000] VFS: Cannot open root device "(null)" or unknown-block(0,0): error -6
[    2.880000] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions:
[    2.890000] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
¦

thats all

and when i press the Reset button and start then i get:

Code:

¦

U-Boot 1.1.4 (Apr 11 2013 - 01:45:00)

U-boot for ELink, build by huangfc(QQ:343669866)

Taobao:http://huangfc.taobao.com

model:ELink M150
DRAM:  64 MB
led turning on for 1s...
id read 0x100000ff
flash size 8388608, sector count = 128
Flash:  8 MB
Using default environment

In:    serial
Out:   serial
Err:   serial
Net:   ag7240_enet_initialize...
: cfg1 0x5 cfg2 0x7114
eth0: 00:03:7f:ff:ff:ff
eth0 up
: cfg1 0xf cfg2 0x7214
eth1: 00:03:7f:ff:ff:fe
athrs26_reg_init_lan
ATHRS26: resetting s26
ATHRS26: s26 reset done
eth1 up
eth0, eth1
Enter Backup Mode...
eth1 link down
eth0 link down
eth1 link down
uip init...
http init...
eth1 link down
eth1 link down
eth1 link down
eth1 link down
eth1 link down
eth1 link down
eth1 link down
eth1 link down
eth1 link down
eth1 link down
eth1 link down
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eth1 link down
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eth1 link down
eth1 link down
eth1 link down
eth1 link down
eth1 link down
......

only this message

what can i do, maybe u can help me??

[dlowings]

Any new info on the mythical S5 yet ?

[jcumins]

I just updated all my s3 with the latest aug 2014 firware, and now the performance sucks.  What are most s3 users doing to improve performance.

[ZymurBits]

I use the 20141024 firmware.  I installed the latest one (20141126) and it ended up slowing down GH/s after about an hour (tried for over 24-hours but had at least 10 reboots and 1 re-image in there).  Gave up and re-imaged with the 10/24 firmware and I'm back to where I was and stable.

[jcumins]

Thats exactly what happened to me.  Very frustrating.

[b00m3rang]

only this message

what can i do, maybe u can help me??

Sorry, I'm not sure what to do about that one.  My only problem was that I needed to log in and change the IP address, using the 'ifconfig' command.  It's saying it can't mount the root partition, which basically means it can't even see the operating system files in order for it to boot.

I'm not really familiar with OpenWRT, but the miner's software seems to be largely based on it, if you can't find help here, you might try a forum for that.

[IYFTech]

Thats exactly what happened to me.  Very frustrating.

This is because the latest S3 firmware is even more broken than the previous broken firmware it was supposed to fix. Time & time again Bitmain release completely untested firmware, choosing to use their customers as guinea pigs instead of doing the testing themselves.

Vent your frustration out on the S3 thread - as I have done 

[dogie]

This company's rating has been updated in the Manufacturer Trustworthiness thread.

[This message won't be monitored, discuss any concerns in the thread.]

[DryPowder]

I was having a problem with my AntMiner S3+ that had become unresponsive and inaccessible after I ticked a wrong check box while trying to get fancy with the network config.  I was trying to connect the miner via WiFi, and also use it as an access point for my Raspberry Pi that's running a Gridseed, and I bridged the wrong two interfaces.  I've seen a lot of posts in this thread with suggestions on how to fix it, but they are all either incorrect, incomplete, or unclear.

First off, no amount of fiddling with the reset button did anything at all, and I tried for many hours.  Pressing the button once does nothing, holding it down for >10sec makes it restart as does double-clicking it, holding the button and then starting it up will just cause it not to boot.  Someone said to start it, wait 3 minutes, hold the button for 15 seconds, do that again, and power cycle it... which didn't work, either.

I was able to fix it by connecting to the serial debugging port on the interface board with a USB to serial adapter, and editing the /etc/config/networking file with the correct settings and rebooting.  The post that gave me the hint about the serial port was a little ambiguous on the TX/RX pinouts, so I wanted to post a pic that should be self-explanatory.  I'm using a Parallax 'Propeller Plug' that I got for about $10 when I built a Propeller on a breadboard.  The driver makes it show up as a regular COM port, and I used PuTTY under Windows to connect to it.  The pin headers are just sitting in there, the worst that might happen with a loose connection is some corrupt characters in the terminal.  The reset pin is not needed.

Hope it helps!

I have the same problem here, I hope that BITMAIN offer a solution to this problem, in the meantime I try your solution.

[Mudbankkeith]

what about this??? http://issuu.com/ybitcoin/docs/ybitcoin-volume1__issue4/7?e=0/9799106

s3+ upgrade path, to s5 with BM1384 chip

800gh at 0.5w/gh

EDIT:- I made a small mistake. The S5 is 1155Gh at 0.51w/gh

[Rabinovitch]

What will Bitmain say about that "s3+ upgrade path, to s5 with BM1384 chip"? And maybe now it's time to offer an upgrade path for S2s?

[BITMAIN_Janet]

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Bitmain will be at the 2015 International CES Show
in Las Vegas, USA -  January 6-9, 2015.
http://www.cesweb.org/
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S5 Available to Purchase with a Credit Card for USA Customers

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00RBV2OE6/ref=sr_1_2_olp?ie=UTF8&qid=1419741122&sr=8-2&keywords=Antminer+S5&condition=new

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