Topic: Announcement: Bitmain launches AntMiner solution, 0.68 J/GH on chip - page 154. (Read 368321 times)

Lets see nov 11 was announcement around 200/btc. Price today around 600-700. 

Lol .Something tells me we wont see these in stock miners for sale:

A. Until BTC drops to close to 200-300
B. Miners will be priced above friedcat / avalon 2 rapage levels.

I call scam if neither of these happens because they would have to be retarded not to just mine with in stock miners at these prices.

So I'm pretty sure most suspect this might actually be yifu selling avalon gen 2 devices. The specs are the same but the chip markings mysteriously are not there

Text soo long, must be legit

This trip was specific to run the myth buster gig!  Exchanged some BTC to cash and hopped on the airplane. (By the way, there are a few travel agencies who take BTC payment to book air, hotels, rails and the busses.)

also, please understand, Bitmain gave me full unrestricted access to the office and the factory and even into the live production line to verify the Pcb and chips the workers and the machines were processing were their products, in exchange of not releasing business sensitive information.  That's why it will take some time for me to make sure no faces or name tags are seen by the public. Even gave me access to the quality control area where they were burn testing the fresh off the line miners.  They weren't mining on their own. They are fully intended to ship those unit as soon as they can with highest level of quality control they can provide.  they are making sure all 64 ASIC are working on each unit as well as the voltage and other basic checks.

Sorry for not providing the detailed photos or video from non-manufacturing person's perspective.  Sorry, I thought these images and even the short videos will show the production was real for people who knows enough to say it's a fake machine or not the right automation to produce ASIC Chip related items.  The video was uploaded in a hurry and the video was a trailer to the later additional videos and photos.  (I can't just upload all the videos and photos without verifying any privacy concerned info attached to them.  I don't want to feel guilty after one of the employees get hurt from the accidental release.)



Hey guys, relax!  I could have waited for a day or two to upload the raw images after verifying each for the personal identifying stuff on the pictures or video.  I chose this way to upload it without the wait.  Now I'm out side of the internet censorship, give me a few hours to sit down and select a few!

My poor decisions! Sincere Apology!  Now I had a small nap, I will run the second upload!

I can NOT provide the prices for their two products.  They will officially announce them when they are ready to take the payment in exchange of the in-stock product!

$1GH/s is a dream far away from the reality. At least this year. yes, sometimes next year, it has to hit that price range for the miners to be profitable.   If you are in the chip industry, you probably have idea how long it will take to have the final chips and make it all work as a whole.  

Thank you for the harsh comments but now I know that's what you guys want!  So good deal, thanks!

But please don't expect other companies to release that much details while in production or pre-sale condition.  Some companies do consider these as Corporate Secret!!!

The chips in the video after identifying the AntMiner is real, their chips are all branded and the pcb are branded as the video shows.

For the last video, I will take the fall for not making all happy! But please consider extream hours involve just to get to the place crossing a few international boarders to get there on a very short notice. Navigating the real china where I speak no Chinese. My mind was still in a shock when the official Taxi drive dispatched by the hotel told me he was taking me to the Hong Kong International Airport but instead, took me to other place, stuffed me in an unmarked van,  them dump me while the driver drove away with the suitcase, then thinking g I just got robed my miner.  changing to Hong Kong SIM card to access VPN to upload the video. Then after crossing g the Chinese border into Hong Kong side, got snagged by the driver just outside the door pushed into the van telling me something but not able to understand what he was telling me. But I realized it was the same driver and he had my suitcase.  I was a happy camper at that time! I will go get the energy drinks and make it my priority for the next 12 hours!

Met the great team of dedicated engineers and the managers with 110% over charged in positiveness in life.  I don't regret the trip and I had good time but the lesson learned, "Better know the basic language of the host country!!!"  English is not going to get you out of the dodo.  At the end, it was a scarily not knowing what was going on, the cab driver actually did a huge favor by have me delivered to Hong Kong side by how they did it!

Payonix and Bitmain and 2 others in Hong Kong were too good to be true so we decided to see if they were real. After the brief check up, Bitmain appeared to be very real but getting the blunt of BFL after effect , we thought we could do some public service by providing info to public as the 3rd party, so you guys can decide to spend money on them or not.  

I better cut this blah blah blah things and get what all of you want to see!


Excuse me for the spelling, the tablet's auto correction is killing me here

seems legit

Just to be clear, sushi did you actually travel just to check this out or did you just happen to be in the locale?

LMFAO at the video, Great success, China Mining Powerful East Dragon, like Vast Seas, Miner Real, Buy NOW

what booking agency charged you in btc?

If they accept CC and Paypal that doesn't scream scam, just don't pay with BTC, but yeah it is funny these guys signed up just in November doing this awesome investigations lol.

Another problem is they might just ship dead worthless hardware and try to scam people that way.

This has so many elements that scream scam - I want to believe, but I am not giving a dime.

1. Sanded chips with no fiduciary markings
2. Non-descriptive engineering photos of random hardware
3. Photos of boards that resemble bitcoin mining hardware.
4. ZERO real proof.
5. Shill visit by somebody nobody knows.
6. Youtube video that adds ZERO.

I am calling it a scam, please prove otherwise.

We will see if these guys are is the first company to price things accordingly and have the opportunity to destroy every scumbag ASIC vendor out there. Or if they will be greedy like the rest and shoot themselves in the foot.

A typical shithole ASIC vendor will price their miners on bitcoins current price of $700-$900 dollars at it's massive peak which is about to come crashing down. If they do the right think and actually price based on their production cost, or providing ROI withing a few days, they will see such a demand for their product they won't know what to do with themselves.

These guys need to be at $1/gh or lower to get the biggest orders in the history of bitcoin miners, anything above that becomes fairly useless especially when BTC crashes back down to the $200-$400 range.

ROFL 

80-100gh/s
not sure yet
btc + paypal for shipping

a few questions

what's the nominal hashrate for the s1?
what's the target price?
what payment method is accepted?

At least sushi showed us some new pics...

Will update on group buy soon.

Vid sold me. SMT machines and devices looked real enough to me. Didn't need all that extra "production" though. Everyone's waiting for the most important thing ... price. My gut is saying its gonna be friedcat level....

To be so hard with sushi, as I understand he is part of the community, not part of bitmain.

We are used to the very poor marketing actions and hidden market positions of the mining
manufacturers but it's not like we deserve a proof of liability just by nature of existence.

OMG was that a terror movie with the worst production ever seen ?? Man at least u could have added some naked babes in there, if it was to go down at least do it with style

Totally. Please refund the one minute of my life I wasted watching your video, Sushi. If Bitmain are real you honestly just did them a massive disservice by making a shady video of them. Why would you upload that junk but be unable to post the originals?  You really don't have a clue do you?

Put up the raw photos and videos that you used to compose that Youtube vid, that's a good start.

No need to PM you; if you're serious about doing a good service to the community, do it all out in the open.