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Re: Bitmain's Released Antminer S9, World's First 16nm Miner Ready to Order
by
kobo_eth
on 16/02/2018, 11:52:59 UTC
since bitmain opened the last batch it hasnt sold out... either they have increased production by a lot, or there is some backroom information that the big companies arent buying any letting the small ones take the hit, considering there are news about smaller chips and samsung coming to the game and a lot of people with big farms selling all their S9's; brings me some fear (since i got a order open for march) that they are either coming with a new miner or some other big news is coming out, anyone else with these thoughts ?

I just signed up to post this here. I think the math doesn't add up anymore for 16nm chips. Unless you are doing liquid cooling and even that is almost breakeven.

https://medium.com/@sisa83/bitcoin-mining-heading-towards-a-cliff-354961c73c26

Wow, interesting article that mathematically proves bitcoin mining to be useless already (or in the very near times to come). It will be interesting to hear the other guys comments here.