ANTMINER S2 Discussion and Support Thread

[googlemaster1]

Hey Bitmain and folks, I just placed and order and sent the BTC but my order showed unpaid then expired.  I hope my BTC didn't get sent to the Abyss... I e-mail your info about it, and was reading here saying not to use the payment system.  If your payment system was/is having problems, please notate that on the website, as now my order shows expired and I am unsure if you guys will be able to get to the BTC I sent you and ship my order in a timely manner. 

Just wanted to give everyone a heads up also, that even though it appears to be working right now because it generated me a QR code, don't buy through the website.  Do as instructed here and e-mail BITMAIN.

Look forward to a quick resolution, thank you!

[Pcpoet]

Hey Bitmain and folks, I just placed and order and sent the BTC but my order showed unpaid then expired.  I hope my BTC didn't get sent to the Abyss... I e-mail your info about it, and was reading here saying not to use the payment system.  If your payment system was/is having problems, please notate that on the website, as now my order shows expired and I am unsure if you guys will be able to get to the BTC I sent you and ship my order in a timely manner. 

Just wanted to give everyone a heads up also, that even though it appears to be working right now because it generated me a QR code, don't buy through the website.  Do as instructed here and e-mail BITMAIN.

Look forward to a quick resolution, thank you!

I had the exact same problem and I can't use QR casue stupid Apple don't support it. I hope the money get return to my wallet soon.

[claudesdad]

Does anybody know what Bitmain's coupon code policy is?  I've got multiple coupons sitting in my account - and I'd like the get another S1 on mined coin.  Slush has been slow lately so it's taking me a while to get there.  I'm trying to figure out when I'd have enough - but I'm not sure if Bitmain will let me use all three of the coupons I've got at once.

The last time I tried you could just use one coupon per miner. And for example if your coupons are from the S1 you are not going to be able to use them to purchase a S2

I bought one miner direct from them - when I went back to get a 2nd one , there was a coupon available so I used it (there was just one).  Then I went back to get a third one - and there was no coupon.  Now I've been looking at getting a 4th - and there are 3 coupons under my account.  It would be great if I could use all three of them at once - since I doubt I'll get three more of the S1's now that the S2 is coming out.

[ZiG]

Does anybody know what Bitmain's coupon code policy is?  I've got multiple coupons sitting in my account - and I'd like the get another S1 on mined coin.  Slush has been slow lately so it's taking me a while to get there.  I'm trying to figure out when I'd have enough - but I'm not sure if Bitmain will let me use all three of the coupons I've got at once.

The last time I tried you could just use one coupon per miner. And for example if your coupons are from the S1 you are not going to be able to use them to purchase a S2

I bought one miner direct from them - when I went back to get a 2nd one , there was a coupon available so I used it (there was just one).  Then I went back to get a third one - and there was no coupon.  Now I've been looking at getting a 4th - and there are 3 coupons under my account.  It would be great if I could use all three of them at once - since I doubt I'll get three more of the S1's now that the S2 is coming out.

On their website ..."You can use one coupon per product" ...at the checkout...so NO luck...

[BITMAIN]

AntMiner S2 1TH/s Miner (1w/GH/s) Batch 2   SOLD OUT

[klondike_bar]

AntMiner S2 1TH/s Miner (1w/GH/s) Batch 2   SOLD OUT

glad i got an order in on time. any new specs for us? I badly want to see how it overclocks!

[1l1l11ll1l]

Still have room for some S2's!

[solitude]

I suck at math but if I ordered today and received my miner mid-April wouldn't the difficulty be well over six billion?

[xstr8guy]

I suck at math but if I ordered today and received my miner mid-April wouldn't the difficulty be well over six billion?

Yep, should be right around 6 billion after the next 2 or 3 adjustments.

[pdawg]

The Israelis are going to give bitmain a run for their money:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=521520.0

[ZiG]

The Israelis are going to give bitmain a run for their money:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=521520.0

Do you think so...?...Competition is a good thing for us...Let's the game begin !...

[minternj]

The Israelis are going to give bitmain a run for their money:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=521520.0

Not really. Better form factor for sure, but value is not there.

[pdawg]

competition brings value 

[xstr8guy]

The Israelis are going to give bitmain a run for their money:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=521520.0

Not really. Better form factor for sure, but value is not there.

And let's see if they actually deliver a working product first before giving them too much credit.  I think we can safely assume that BitMain will deliver on their promise but I'm very leery of anyone with no history.  Plus the stupid name, Spondoolies, makes them sound scammy, lol.

Btw, I was able to just now place an order online for batch 2.  I had an S2 in my cart from earlier today and was able to complete the transaction.  Now I'm just waiting for confirmation.  Fingers crossed.

[pdawg]

Still have room for some S2's!

Awesome setup, very well done.

[raskul]

The Israelis are going to give bitmain a run for their money:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=521520.0

I do like the look of that. and how unusual to see videos, full spec and real people promoting the product.

[jasper1000]

Will stick to my S1 x 12 set up paid average 1.1BTC. Over the past month they have produced at least 5 BTC  (2.16TH)

Not a single issue with any of the S1's very stable quite and low consumption.

Like the S2 but not interested at the minute bit too high in price and a few unknowns

Will it as stable and reliable as the S1?

Whats the import duty?

Noticed the S1 price has started to move up 0.92 2 days ago 0.988 today

Bottom line is time = money waiting upto a  month to start hashing with S2 would cost me $3600

I have a similar setup of S1's...Which pool are you mining at, buddy...?

Was with BTC Guild but changed to GHash as it seem to be much better. Very big pool.  

Happy with GHash but might split and have 3 pools with 4 ants in each. Need to research more

[AussieHash]

The Israelis are going to give bitmain a run for their money:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=521520.0

Won't ROI

[xstr8guy]

Will stick to my S1 x 12 set up paid average 1.1BTC. Over the past month they have produced at least 5 BTC  (2.16TH)

Not a single issue with any of the S1's very stable quite and low consumption.

Like the S2 but not interested at the minute bit too high in price and a few unknowns

Will it as stable and reliable as the S1?

Whats the import duty?

Noticed the S1 price has started to move up 0.92 2 days ago 0.988 today

Bottom line is time = money waiting upto a  month to start hashing with S2 would cost me $3600

I have a similar setup of S1's...Which pool are you mining at, buddy...?

Was with BTC Guild but changed to GHash as it seem to be much better. Very big pool.  

Happy with GHash but might split and have 3 pools with 4 ants in each. Need to research more

Splitting your hash seems to a good idea especially with so many pools suffering from bad luck.  I had been splitting my 3THs between BTCG, Eligius and GHash. But Eligius' payout issues have scared me away for now.  Plus their looney-tunes religious fundamentalism doesn't jibe with my beliefs.

Edit:  looks like my late batch 2 order failed. 

[smooth]

If you split across enough pools you can't ever have bad luck.