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They have sold over 5000 A3s if this is their account 1NrMNvxsDwsQ9DA4styegmTue9tPPsV9bg

Someone was saying they sold 6000 to buyers in China already.. Any other users from China confirm this? If so can someone post the wallet address they wanted payment sent to for China customers?

China buyer is using same BCH wallet too?

I don't know.. Literally just going off what some rando posted a couple pages back. Trying to find out if what they said is legit or not.

Quote from: leonarpex on January 17, 2018, 08:59:01 AM

Guys, i live in china... im sure you know bitmain have one site for china and one for the rest of the world... i dont know how many machines were there for the global site... but there were 6000 for china... and they were sold for 20800 RMB around 3200$...

i got one, they will deliver in china between 4 days, so ill share some pics when i get mine... and show the profits after one week... im ready to plug it in as soon as i get it... hopefully the difficulty will stay at current level for a couple weeks to get my money back... after that if it drops... ill just resell the machine... lol

Its legit... by chinese laws, bitmain can not sell this machine in the mainland by any cryptocurrency, they sell it only in RMB... you can check their chinese website
https://shop.bitmain.com/main.htm?lang=zh

and also by chinese law they must tell how many machines were available for sale... and in their announcement by Wechat account, they state there was 6000 machines just for mainland china

开售产品
蚂蚁矿机 A3 815G （适用于Blake2b算法币种）
功耗：1275W+7%
暂定价格：20800 RMB
开售时间：1月17日下午2点
本批数量：6000 台
发货时间：确认付款后7个工作日左右发货
备注：
1.现货产品无法修改地址
2.本批机器每个账户限购一台，不能使用优惠券
3.订单付款后需在官网上传付款信息，并把订单号+付款人+付款金额+付款凭证发给微信客服
4.付款需在2017年1月17日下午4点到账，逾期未到账订单将被取消

BTW, im not chinese... just been teaching english here for a few years

Do you know what else is required to mine on this? Just 1x APW++ power supply?
Copy paste from their instuctions :
"5. You will need an ATX PSU with at least 10 six-pin PCIe connectors...Bitmain recommends the APW3++ to power the A3.
6. Separate power supply to control board: there is one additional six-pin PCIe connector on the IO board which must be connected to the PSU to get power.

This confused me a bit ... still brand new to Asic miners here, this will be my first one. (I'm also in China btw, so also paid that Chinese premium) in case people didn't realize its ~USD 500 more expensive to buy it here in China.

Also is there any additional software needed? Or just need a pc to configure wallet ? I'll try to do all my research in the next couple of days so I can start day 1 when the miner arrives

It isn't very clear, but I think the reason they say you need an extra PSU is because the APW++ has 10 connectors, but they are in 5 pairs of 2. The IO Board is probably too far away for the 5th cable to to plug into a hashing board and the IO Board.

APW++ has 2 groups of 4 and 2 individual cables