Topic: Bitmain looks like they're releasing a 15GH/s DASH miner called the AntMiner D3 - page 74. (Read 299686 times)

Forgot today's new all-time winner. " Hey, my new D3 isn't making shit on DASH, can I mine LTC with it??".

To all the people that are claiming the Baikal devices are FPGA miners- FALSE.

FPGAs have similar performance to GPUs, but just much less power consumption. Do your research before making statements.

Baikal's previous generation used 40nm nodes on their full custom ASIC process. They originally wanted to build out their design using 90nm nodes, but of course they wouldn't have been as competitive as iBeLink and PinIdea that were also releasing X11 miners. I can presume their current design uses 28nm nodes on their ASIC. Bitmain uses 28nm for the D3 chips.

It depends on which batch you ordered. My one both shipped at a same time and delivered on same day.

Don’t you ordered on a same cart?

Amen brother!! I lost count of the number of posts that go something like this......." Hi guys, I'm new here. I just got 50 D3's delivered to my door, I'm so pissed off!! They forgot the fucking power cords". ....or.... "Greetings miners, I just bought 100 D3's. What kind of PSU do I need for these things? Also, can I mine anything besides DASH with them??". Of course my all time favorite...." Hey there! Newbie here. I just started up my 25 new D3's in my studio apartment. Holleee SHIT are these things LOUD!! They're also making my apartment really HOT!! Should I get a fan or something??". SMH!!!

Like others said, the petition is a waste of time.  The difference is in completely different technology. 

Baikal = programmable chip
Bitmain = purpose built chip that is not programmable

You can't change the D3 other than firmware that can possibly improve efficiency or allow you to overclock, underclock etc.  That is all done at the controller, not on the hashing chips.

If you want programmable and update capable miners then you need to get in line for the Baikal's.  They aren't as efficient with electricity, but they can mine multi algo's.

I’ve answered this question thousands of times now and people just can’t get it into their thick skulls.

Baikal designed an FPGA based miner which means the circuit inside can be reprogrammed and reflashed Tom possibly make for the hashing of other algorithms possible. The downside of using FPGAs is their efficiency is indeed better than that of a GPU’s, but they are less efficient than an ASIC.

Bitmain has designed an ASIC based miner which results in better efficiency than FPGAs. The downside of this is the chip is limited to only X11 and cannot be simply firmware flashed to mine other algorithms. Unless you can physically change the circuitry inside of the chips it is not possible to mine other algorithms on the D3.

There’s legitimately nothing more to this. Making a petition or new firmware will not work. You’d have to have a FPGA based miner to do that. Unless they somehow refunded the D3s or gave coupons to buyers for a newer miner there’s no way they can clean up the mess they’ve made. I doubt they care anyways since they make millions in profits from their miners since people choose them solely for their efficiency and cost while ignoring the fact that Bitmain uses the cheapest possible parts and runs their miners, sometimes for long periods of time, before selling them. This makes them incredibly unreliable and repairs are expensive. This is why competition is good, to force Bitmain to make a better product.

So LTC is scrypt not x11. By prohashing.com you can select LTC payout. DGC can be mined at x11 https://www.mining-dutch.nl but its a shitty coin i think.

it seem Baikal has did the same thing  1 year ago .
How do you pretty sure Bitmain can not do it ?
maybe they also want to clean up this mess.
Overclocking 15 GHS miners to 19 GHS is very  funny solution.
it just turned d3s  into a better heater.

http://bitcoinist.com/baikal-algorithms-x11-miner/

Yea, Baikal are FPGA based and Bitmain are ASIC, you are comparing apples to oranges.

I think this is one huge misunderstanding.

Bitmain doesn't care a single iota about you.  Or the 90 others that signed it.

All they care about is their bottom line.

The only thing they "owe" you is delivering hardware that you paid for. 

At no point did they promise anything else.

M

Actually it is pretty technical issue which I can not claim exactly. But we all know that Baikal has announced to add 2 more algo for their miner.
Of course it does not mean that this could be the same for our case. Probably totally different issues both  hardware and software

I prefer to hear it from the company as an official statement.

At present, 91 people have signed this proposal.

https://www.change.org/p/https-twitter-com-bitmaintech-d3-antminer-firmware-update-for-additional-mining-algorithms?recruiter=831205993&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=share_petition

I think the bitmain  owes us at least an offical explanation about that .

You're always taking a chance with their stuff.

Sometimes you win.

Sometimes you lose.

In all cases, they win.

M

But us sheep line up to buy their miners!!!

They haven't had a good reputation for quite some time.  This is not new.

M

Yep you see sponsored ads, make millions in crypto.  Bitcoin has been in the news with the price over $7K, people think this is easy, I can retire in 6 months!!  LOL

I signed the petition. I don't know if bitmain really care about the situation. But I think they don't have a good reputation now...

The thing with this "gold rush" to cryptocurrencies and mining in general is that 95%+ of people entering the market this year DO NOT understand what they are buying into. Like 3 out of 5 people I spoke to in person in regards to crypto wanted to start a bloody ICO to raise millions for some idea that could be accomplished for thousands. The amount of "stupid" in this industry has reached an all time high. It will take time for everyone to learn.

Especially for mining. Someone buys a D3 and expects it to mine Litecoin. Then they ask why it doesn't work. DO YOUR RESEARCH BEFORE YOU BUY SOMETHING.

I think most folks on here ty to be nice and helpful.....but when someone asks on their first post^^^^^^  if they "can mine LTC with X11" I just want to dive through my screen. WTF man.

Re LTC, LTC is definitely Scrypt, won't work for X11.  Can't speak for Digitalcoin, but I think it's Scrypt too.

Re pools, from an earlier post of mine:

That's your call based on your requirements and preferences.

If you would like to be paid in BTC, NiceHash is by far the best place to rent your hash.  Check their stats.  They regularly state the payments that go to sellers of hashrate exceed what you'd get by mining with 100% luck, and in many cases by quite a bit.  Just use their internal wallet to keep the fees at 2%.  (My sig has a referral for them.)  At the moment I have no reason to believe they are fudging their stats.  Someone stated here you have to watch them because sometimes they pay less than "100% luck".  From what I can tell they don't show that stat for X11 like they do scrypt and sha256.

If you want to play with other coins, Prohashing can pay in you in many different coins.  However it's a 5% fee.  If you think you can compensate for that fee by playing a coin, that may be best.  Someone stated here you have to watch them as well because they have some instability issues.

I think there are a few straight Dash pools as well.  However I don't know what they are.  Read back through the last few pages of posts to see.

If you have more than one D3, maybe set them to different pools for a few days and compare the results.

M

lmao who knows, having the same problem...

Ladies and Gentlemen,

First post here!

New to this forum, and also mining as well. I am about to read through this thread, but figured in the mean time y'all (you all, for you Yankees) might be able to help me with a few questions on the D3 Antminers.

1. Is there any other coins worth mining besides DASH & MUE?

-Also does anyone know if you can mine Digitalcoin (DGC) and LTC using the x11? I've read some stuff saying you can, but can't find much information about those 2.

These are a few I have found looking up the x11 coins.

DASH, MUE, StartCoin, CannabisCoin, SmartCoin, Europecoin, GiveCoin, HashCoin, LimeXcoin, Logicoin, Muniti, Nyancoin, Quebecoin, XCurrency.

Obviously most are trash coins but this is all I have found.


2. What pools do you guys use?

Any recommendations?

Best Regards