Topic: Bitmain launches the Z9 Equihash miner - page 55. (Read 37217 times)

If i remember right someone reported that nanopool just works fine for him.....
Can't test my own as mine didn't arrive yet...

why is no other pool working?  Was it specified by Bitmain?

Any other pools other than Antpool working yet?

If you go back several pages, a couple of us reported in on Thursday/Friday, but I'm happy to answer any questions you might have.

/\ this.

I really don't understand what the big deal is, the power draw will probably also be 3-4x as well, likely the only difference will be the upfront price per kS/s.

...And cue another dmwardjr rant, calling you a Bitmain shill and spamming all his old posts...

Very well said, I for one can't wait for my mini's to arrive!!  Merit given

dmwardjr,

Thank you for your concern and effort to make us all aware of the perils of doing business with Bitmain.  I think we all get it now after the multiple so many pages and posts.  Can we move on now?  I'm sure there are better things you could do with your day/s.  What do you need to hear from the members of this topic for you to back off a little and let other folks express their opinions without your commentary?

I would really love to hear from some folks that already have their units and are running them?  Early (LUCKY) owners of Z9's pls share.

Thank you!

I don't put people on ignore.   I'm over the age of 12 years old.

You should start a blog.

I'm good bro.

     I don't intend to shill for Bitmain. I am just really disheartened that ASICs are cropping up left and right. All I want to do is hobby mine with my one GPU. I really don't want to be forced to buy dedicated or limited hardware just to continue to hobby mine. Most of these ASICS are probably going to be replaced with with better ones in a year or two. So, I end up with a bunch of bricks that didn't even ROI because the difficulty on the coin(s) shot up sky high. At least when my 1 1070 becomes obsolete for mining, it's attached to a desktop that I can enjoy for 4 years or more. Or I can simply upgrade the GPU, which is usually cheaper than buying specialized equipment.
    Bitmain coming out with the Z9 has really made me cynical as well. I was under the mistaken notion that Equihash was "ASIC resistant" because of the memory requirements. Now I look at this new proposed algo, and I'm skeptical.  I feel like Bitmain will just cut out the two unneeded components and optimize/improve the components that are needed. If they can't do it, like I said before, they can offer another chip maker to do it.
     Also, due to economies of scale, Bitmain can always set up large farms that will get electricity and the equipment for way cheaper than anybody else, ATM. If they don't like the electricity rates in China, the can simply set up a huge farm elsewhere. I don't believe Jihan Wu when he told Zooko that they don't have any "large" GPU farms. Even if true, they are in good position to set up a large one, if need be.



That would be ideal. However, King would probably come up with a botnet which would allow people to get lives faster, if they use this new nifty feature...

I wonder if nvidia is mining with the unused GPUs in their data center (Wouldn't that just frost dmwardjr's cookie!!)

Thanks for posting the link.  Clearly the escalation of the tech is getting more specialized and will continue to migrate to the data centers and the cloud.  Less and less of this gear is going to be accessible by average people.

ROFL...   

Computers are going away.  Fewer and fewer people have a "computer".  Everyone has phones, so clearly we need to change to PROG POW and restrict all mining to cell phones...  You know, for the greater good and decentralization and all. 

have you guys seen this? what you think guys, can we mine with that?


https://www.nvidia.co.uk/data-center/hgx/

I KNOW from experience.  When I bought 42 x S7's the end of 2015, more than a dozen of them were OBVIOUSLY USED.

Whether you believe me or not is up to you.

Typical fake news distribution network(er). Posting fake news, missinformation, wrong informatin, slight and slander and so on ...... Even does not carry about it, doesn't change it even he knows that it's total
wrong information  .....

I personally would edit my post, excuse for the accidential missinformation and would investigate at least the info i post a bit further until i use it as true in an argument.

Of course, that's not needed by you. Every argument posted by the biggest idiots on the net is ok as long as it serves for the personal agenda....

And just as a site note: Fake news distributors (like you) shouldn't even use words and arguments like decentralization. You should consider changing your business, pretty sure you would make much more with yellow press!

Thanks for accepting my apology.  Much appreciated.

Yes, the photo helps.

As for testing the sonm fog computing project, I'll have to check it out when I'm better rested.  I've had approximately 4.5 hours sleep over the past 48 hours.

No problem, I put in a profile pic so it wont happen again

I encourage you to check out the sonm fog computing project at sonm.com.
You can test it right now: https://blog.sonm.io/sonm-crypto-iaas-testnet-open-to-public-4523d750186a

If you want to test it, join: https://t.me/SONMbetatest

Your view on this?