Topic: Announcement: Bitmain launches AntMiner solution, 0.68 J/GH on chip - page 57. (Read 368268 times)

ok, was doing some math.  From a short-term (6 months), doesn't it make more sense to just use the S1s?  At the current prices, I can't use that much electricity difference to justify the price difference.  Am I missing something?  Also with the Dragon and others under the $3,000 price tag, it seems a little over priced even for Bitmain.  Just trying to figure out what I might be missing.

New price for AntMiner S1: 0.831btc each one, shipping cost included.

AntMiner S2 1TH/s Miner Batch 3 Sales Open

Bitmain Technologies Limited is proud to announce ANTMINER S2 sales open at 22:00pm BeiJing time Apr 23rd GMT+8.
The 3rd Batch of AntMiner S2 will be shipped out starting from April 26th. AntMiner S2 will be available in the global market for a price of $3,199.

Coupon for Returning Customers: 
Only $3,099 after a $100 Instant Coupon, which will be released to the user IDs who have bought S2 in the Batch 1 & Batch 2.


AntMiner S2 SPEC:
 
 Hash rate: 1,000GH/s
 Power consumption: less than 1,100W from the wall
 Power efficiency: Around 1.1Watt/GH/s
 PSU: 1050W produced by Enermax, 80PLUS gold
 4U Rack (442mm * 432mm * 177mm)
 Built-in 1050W PSU
 Plug and Mining
 Stable and quietly
 
Contact: [email protected]
URL: https://www.bitmaintech.com

Ancient Chinese Secret for Excellent Customer Service

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xeacqP9sLE

Lighten up!

Every single time you post a sales item without answering customer questions I'm going to quote it to ask why you're being assholes to people who want to give you money for something else than a S1 (also known as existing customers looking for information on other products since your website is woefully out of date and your customer service is second to shit).  What's the problem?

Guys we need to find a way to reliably under clock the S1  and run 3 on the same 500watt power supply at 400GH combined.

Bitmain asic is pretty awesome at low voltage...

Time to reduce the cost per GH. Maybe we will get even better efficiency.

My Hosting bills are now enormous, we either need to see a price rise a.s.a.p or I don't know what.....

Resend your same RMA email as a friendly reminder. I've sent 1 of 20 S1s back for an RMA replacement.

What are your S1s doing?

New price for AntMiner S1: 0.844btc each one, shipping cost included.

Are you hashing?  The S1 ships to where it does not auto connect to the internet.  You have to change gateway settings on your computer to get into it. 


Best of luck

Bitmain doesnt give a shit anymore to CS.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/setup-troubleshoot-bitmain-antminer-s1-180ghs-miner-344970


Directly connect the Ant miner to a computer and go through the steps outlined in this thread link posted above ^^^^^^

Not sure if I'm in the right place or not....

But does anyone know where I might be able to purchase a new control board for the Antminer S1?

Or if anyone knows another way to use the blades?

The S1 turns on but it can't see the network.

Spondoolies already have that covered:

They will have an option even for smaller customers too with 1 SP30 or some kind of a bundle for multiple customers so that shouldn't hold you back from ordering. Send them an e-mail if you don't believe me and they will fill you with some more details and after that hurry with your reservation fee

They're only a rip-off if you're lying to yourself.  Lots of us do that in this industry.

But to benefits, which haven't changed: low power, easy to deploy, no playing with power supplies, low-cost, can sap to any coin, etc.  Pardon my language, but any idiot can run a USB miner, and for people who like gadgets or want to be involved, ~$20 for a usb miner is a very low cost for entry.   Plus when running resale we never, ever promise ROI from any hardware and direct folks to calculators to understand the market. 

A blessing in disguise would be Bitmain pulling their heads out of the sand and saying they've been being less than optimal with customer service because there is some kick-ass U3 coming out and everyone who inquired is on the list for purchase.  A vendor not responding whatsoever is not a blessing, it's a return to Avalon and BFL.  I don't want to compare Bitmain to either, but when something starts quacking you start thinking "Duck?".

They are doing you a favor, those usb's are a rip off unless your plans are to rip someone else off even more. Count it as a blessing in disguise.

True, that "best and reliable" comment was stretching it. 

And I'd love to join in on that buy, problem is I'm totally championing the small fries because the house I'm renting won't support an SP30.  As is I was really pushing it with maxed out GPU units strategically placed around the house when I did more scrypt mining, but I can't pull 1200W from a single outlet without blowing the breaker.  And the owners are assholes, even though I offered to pay 75% they won't let us upgrade the power in this place.  So I unfortunately must use smaller-scale hardware, so 2500W spread around the house in 8-900W chunks is just fine, 1000W and I have to be careful not to plug another USB hub in, but 1200W is a deal-breaker. 

This is why I'm so adamant about smaller, lower-powered units.  S1's are not worth it at the price, weren't worth it when they were selling for ~$3000 back in the day, not worth it now.  Even if we took power price out of the equation (and mine sucks), it wouldn't possibly break even until August, and with the monsters you're group-buying I'm looking at August with the same eyes we watched the market with in March/April 2013 when AsicMiner was about to ream the network.  Stormy clouds on the horizon, only people with the TH+ units are really invited to the party.

BTC isn't very friendly to the small-fry in the community anymore, but I doubt I'm alone in people with either expensive power or power draw limits where scaling out but not up is the only way to go.  On the flipside, this is also why I have over $10k in Gridseed hardware on order and/or hashing right now.  I can spread it across the house and the power draw won't come close to my old GPU farm.  It could have been Ant units, Bitmain decided otherwise for me.

I wouldn't call it exactly "the best and most reliable hardware on the market right now" even if it's my opinion that isn't biased by the Group Buy that i'm organizing.

I invite you to my Group Buy. Even if it's a pre-order and people hate pre-orders, i promise you that when it comes to customer support you will be treated much much better.

Trust me, I'm already speaking with my wallet by jumping on a different usb group thing (Swimmer) and buying Gridseed hardware.  My curiosity/frustration is that there is zero communication from these folks and they seem to make some of the best and most reliable hardware on the market right now and were the only vendor bulk-shipping USB-style units.  I realize they're money-pits, but people still like them and continue to mine with them, plus the aftermarket for other, larger hardware is a complete crapfest, so getting a chargeback on a couple USB's won't break the bank.  

It seems like the typical engineer problem, awesome with machines, crud with people.  But they seemed a lot more responsive to the community at large when they were selling pre-orders for the S2's and U2's back in the day, now that they pop on and give us access to their warehouse of S1's (pure speculation, I'm just being pissy because I'm only on my first cup of coffee ) and barely respond to inquiries.  Crying shame for the community because we're running out of reliable vendors once again.  

Anyone know how long an RMA request takes?  I sent Bitmain an email and was wondering what other people's experiences were. I have 2 unhappy Antminer S1.

Thanks!

Speak with your wallet by ignoring them too! Or try another company