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Re: Bitmain's Released Antminer S9, World's First 16nm Miner Ready to Order
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hooch8000
on 19/12/2017, 10:23:48 UTC
Quote from: Alexxa on December 19, 2017, 10:14:52 AM
I was planning on putting in a rather  large order S9's but given the price... I might have to wait and see what Avalon and Canaan is doing. Definitely not buying at this price from Bitmain.

My opinion is that they got overly excited because of the high demand the last few months- maybe the price will cool off the demand and they will come to their senses.

Why is there no manufacturer in US?:/ all of a sudden crowd funding looks like a good idea - God knows we have the brain power and resources - all we need is a good plan and financial backing.



It's all a semiconductor design challenge.  Crowdfunding might get a nice design, but you need Wafer Fabs to do this.  As for doing this in the US we left this business to Taiwan years ago.  They are better than we are at it - and will be for the foreseeable future.  The Chinese arent very good at it either...every S9 Bitmain chip, as far as I understand, comes from TSMC, which is based in Taiwan.
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Re: Bitmain's Released Antminer S9, World's First 16nm Miner Ready to Order
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hooch8000
on 19/12/2017, 10:15:30 UTC
Quote from: rebmemeR on December 19, 2017, 10:00:06 AM
for feburary release? fuck that I'll just go to ebay

Exactly.  The price increase doesnt add up.  At current profitability, for a Feb delivery, you're looking at an equivalent price of over $5000 per unboxed ebay/amazon s9 (if it can be shipped within 7 days).

If the ebay/amazon market doesnt overreact (lol) the current prices of 3.5k to 5k are all a steal.  

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Re: Bitmain's Released Antminer S9, World's First 16nm Miner Ready to Order
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hooch8000
on 19/12/2017, 09:30:48 UTC
They are capping at 20 per account.  And doubled prices at just under 2800. 

They've just made the secondary market work.  At 4000 per miner on ebay or amazon, they have made this a no-brainer.  The folks that have stockpiled these devices are going to become the new primary market.

All while angering their customer base.  Certainly they are entitled to value price their offerings...but this will cost them trust.

I think this was a big mistake...the market will demand competition.  And people will have no loyalty to Bitmain....

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Re: Bitcoin Mining Setup/Power info?
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hooch8000
on 19/12/2017, 09:00:39 UTC
Quote from: dinotom on December 18, 2017, 04:38:55 PM
I see someone in this thread said ~6400 cfm per Antminer S9? The stated rate is 220CFM, which is correct?

Its 220 CFM.  Widely known and tested figure for S9's.

6400 CFM is ridiculous.  As an example, the Bugatti Veyron at over 300 km/h on the high side of the power curve, takes in 45000 CFM.  Additionally a 737's engines each pull in 2M CFM at max thrust, which would mean you could power a 737 by strapping on 300 miners. 

...hell, with the 300 S9s on each wing, and a couple solar panels glued to the fuselage, we would have a self powered plane that literally pays people bitcoin to fly on it.

or not.