Re: AntMiner S4+ available for global sales on April 20th, shipping within one week

This is a no brainer... This is what the s4 should have been...

To release this now with old chips, Shame on u bitmain.. Seems like u have excess stock in your warehouse of maybe C1's and ur trying to get rid of the chips in bulk..

To high a price with S5's in circulation, To high Wattage, To much noise.

I was looking forward to an S4+ using the newer S5 chip at least at 1500w at least that would have pushed it over the 3th mark..

Bad rushed decisions... Come on bitmain, U were the best at this & now your slowly starting to run downhill at a very quick pace & u still havent fixed the voltage settings on the S4

Heres a tip for the S4 in the Freq table take out all the over clock settings & lock them down but leave the underclock settings..

Then in the voltage settings put a drop down box with the underclock voltage settings with suggested freq settings so that people cant blow these things up.. But can downclock them.

Then also put a box allowing the --bitmain-homemode or normal mode so that can be run a little quieter.

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Sometimes for the miner, the best strategy is to run the miners that already in hands and not to buy any new miners. Only buy the miners that is best for you. For a home miner the electricity cost is high and noise is a pain, so we should buy the high efficiency mining rigs. But for large scale miners, the cost of electricity maybe low and noise level is not a concern, they may have better tolerence with the old chips and not so sexy power efficiency.

Was the above meant for me?? The S4+ is no good for no one

Why use old chips when new one are available that are faster & more efficient??

Leftover old stock by the sounds & if this is the case they should have sold all of them before releasing new ones.. This is bad business practice that smacks of greed!

So I just convinced my Wife to sell our home in NJ and move out to the state of WASHINGTON.
We are both retired have pensions. I found a 15 acre place with a barn that had a large 200amp 240 watt service in it since the prior owner had a welding business.

Power is 4 cents. 200 amp 240 means 48kwatts x 80% = 38 kwatts,

I can fit 25 of these . they would be far easier to manage then s-5's the bold is how they could work for me if the example was true.

So basically these are for low power cost farms and data centers. Not no one. As you think.

But I agree with one thing they are forcing a guy like me out of the game Since I do not have the ability to keep the noise controlled.

Nice one Phil ! Can I rent a room now ?

Just kidding ;-)

I would not mind moving to washington since my wife and I do have pensions and are retired. But all of our families are east coast so we will stay on the atlantic vs the pacific .