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Topic: Bitmain's Released Antminer S9, World's First 16nm Miner Ready to Order - page 116. (Read 531168 times)

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What the numbers in the HW column on the Miner Status screen mean?

Got a new S9 and after a week one power supply feeding cards 6 and 7 die for a power outage, after that only card 8 working.
After power down the other power supply and power on both, the S9 did not hash, took about 4 power reset, 1 reboot and another power reset to make it hash.
When finally start hashing it only hash 9TB, card 6 show number 9 in HW column and card 7 shows numbers 18 or 26 randomly.
All the ships shows o there is no X anywhere. Card 6 shows 68 chips, card 7 56 and card 8 68. Hashing shows 4500 on all 3 cards.
Do I have a bad power supply or something wrong with this miner?

Power supplies I am using are:
Card 8 and controller - 1000W Enermax Revolution87+
Cards 6 and 7 - 1200W Corsair AX1200i.

Any feed will be appreciated, for now I have the miner down until I get a new power supply to replace the Corsair.

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Is the S9 profitable at this price and diff? Considering buying one or two..
I think yes.
Don't know if it's better than L3 and D3 for long term...

But each day, the buying rate on nicehash change, from 0.0098 to 0.0065 to 0.01 today (btc/day)


S9 is probably good buy as it is on 14nm and besides Hashnest has a big supply of S7's there so making new miner is shooting themselves in leg. So probably don't expect new miner for some time.

OK.
I think if a good price is found, it's very interesting, more than L3 and D3 where profit will same soon or not far....

After, there are many release , 11,12,13.5,14.... probably they continue to OC it...

And maybe there will be a problem at the next reward 6.5, except if BTC fly to the moon.... Cannot know...
legendary
Activity: 938
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If you have had your coins from before the hard fork that gave us Bitcoin Cash, you have the same amount in Bitcoin Cash (BCH).

Otherwise you'd have to exchange your BTC for BCC and transfer that as payment.

Yes I have the coins before the fork but the value in dollars for each one is different, bitmain is asking for more than 4 BCC, in BTC will be less than one BTC.

I don't see any other way than open a BCC wallet and transfer from the BTC wallet.


Yeah, the value is quite different and BCH is quite under pressure, pricewise, both because people are mining and instant selling, and because it's not really interesting enough for a lot of people to hold, because potentially all BTC holders could liquidate all the BCH they got for free with the fork.

You'll need to add your private keys for your BTC wallet in a BCH wallet to get the BCH there. Which of course is a risk, but that's well documented on the forum.
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Activity: 84
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If you have had your coins from before the hard fork that gave us Bitcoin Cash, you have the same amount in Bitcoin Cash (BCH).

Otherwise you'd have to exchange your BTC for BCC and transfer that as payment.

Yes I have the coins before the fork but the value in dollars for each one is different, bitmain is asking for more than 4 BCC, in BTC will be less than one BTC.

I don't see any other way than open a BCC wallet and transfer from the BTC wallet.
legendary
Activity: 938
Merit: 1007
Trying to place an order on Bitmain website but only BCC option shows up, no BTC.

Any clues?
They only accept Bitcoin Cash payments for this batch.

I only have a bitcoin core wallet, no idea how to place an order with BCC, guess I need a BCC wallet?


If you have had your coins from before the hard fork that gave us Bitcoin Cash, you have the same amount in Bitcoin Cash (BCH).

Otherwise you'd have to exchange your BTC for BCC and transfer that as payment.
member
Activity: 84
Merit: 10
Trying to place an order on Bitmain website but only BCC option shows up, no BTC.

Any clues?
They only accept Bitcoin Cash payments for this batch.

I only have a bitcoin core wallet, no idea how to place an order with BCC, guess I need a BCC wallet?
legendary
Activity: 2464
Merit: 1710
Electrical engineer. Mining since 2014.
Trying to place an order on Bitmain website but only BCC option shows up, no BTC.

Any clues?
They only accept Bitcoin Cash payments for this batch.
member
Activity: 84
Merit: 10
Trying to place an order on Bitmain website but only BCC option shows up, no BTC.

Any clues?

sr. member
Activity: 1078
Merit: 255
Is the S9 profitable at this price and diff? Considering buying one or two..
I think yes.
Don't know if it's better than L3 and D3 for long term...

But each day, the buying rate on nicehash change, from 0.0098 to 0.0065 to 0.01 today (btc/day)


S9 is probably good buy as it is on 14nm and besides Hashnest has a big supply of S7's there so making new miner is shooting themselves in leg. So probably don't expect new miner for some time.
full member
Activity: 162
Merit: 100
Is the S9 profitable at this price and diff? Considering buying one or two..
I think yes.
Don't know if it's better than L3 and D3 for long term...

But each day, the buying rate on nicehash change, from 0.0098 to 0.0065 to 0.01 today (btc/day)
legendary
Activity: 938
Merit: 1007
Is the S9 profitable at this price and diff? Considering buying one or two..

Everybody's guess is as good as yours. Generally speaking, mining seems going to be a race to the bottom where the question is whether you've made enough out of it, before it's obsolete. I've gambled and lost with Gridseeds a few years back, with the money invested then in BTC I'd be a lot richer now, even if the mining would've gone better.
sr. member
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Is the S9 profitable at this price and diff? Considering buying one or two..
full member
Activity: 162
Merit: 100
Someone use with nicehash and with XnSub ?
It doesn't work for me with #xnsub...
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Activity: 224
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Too Many Miners Not Enough Electricity
no that happened to me one and they fixed it, I called and according to her she said they look at the block chain to see when it was actually sent and if it was within the timeframe your good
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I bought one from the 13.5th batch and paid in bcc, but because the payment took ages to confirm my order expired. now it shows paid/unshiped/expired.
should i be worried?
i contacted bitmain about it but no response so far...
legendary
Activity: 938
Merit: 1007
I'm considering starting mining for the first time and it looks like Antminer S9 is the way to go in that price range (other suggestions in $1000-$5000 range is welcome. $0.08 per kWh).

Is it safe to buy from Bitmain? If I pay for an order now, am I sure to get one from the november batch? Or am I risking that they suddenly are out of stock even after I pay?

I don't feel so good about paying so far in advance, with a currency that is charged immediately with no refund possibilities.

What do you think? Should I go for it?

They're flaky, take long to mine with the machines you've paid for actually deliver, but that's what you know beforehand. Although we can have a long discussion about the business ethics of Bitmain, their machines are relatively stable and therefor get sold. A lot.
newbie
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I'm considering starting mining for the first time and it looks like Antminer S9 is the way to go in that price range (other suggestions in $1000-$5000 range is welcome. $0.08 per kWh).

Is it safe to buy from Bitmain? If I pay for an order now, am I sure to get one from the november batch? Or am I risking that they suddenly are out of stock even after I pay?

I don't feel so good about paying so far in advance, with a currency that is charged immediately with no refund possibilities.

What do you think? Should I go for it?
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Activity: 266
Merit: 109
Ultra Mega Giga Super Cool Flying Oposum!
The are back in stock, probably unpaid orders I grabbed 4 at first then another order for 6 lol

Not the unpaid, last batch was 14TH and ship on 1-10 Dec
https://shop.bitmain.com/productDetail.htm?pid=00020170926114319067noQch0M206A3

This batch is 13,5TH and ship earlier on 21-30 Nov
https://shop.bitmain.com/productDetail.htm?pid=000201709281019141777wvS8I1g068C

I am very interest to buy but with my current customs policy, better buy in the local market although its higher price but its certain than my shipment stuck in customs' gate
Where are you from ?

It's easy to avoid custom in EU.


Could you tell me how please?
I have few miners comming to uk and they charge about 20% here. and i was thinking to get few in slovakia too.
i tried to add message for delivery to declare under value but it was not possible (canaan)
thanks




I have simmilar problem with Customs in my country... They are efing braindead...

Policy goes like this ... Value of your product + shipment == Total value + 10%(of Total value) ... And and again 20% on top of all of that...

If i order D3+150$+ PSU 150$ shipment that would be 1800+ 10% = 1980+ 20%(396$) = 2376$ ... In the end i pay total Custom Tax of 576$ this is freaking insane


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Activity: 72
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The are back in stock, probably unpaid orders I grabbed 4 at first then another order for 6 lol

Not the unpaid, last batch was 14TH and ship on 1-10 Dec
https://shop.bitmain.com/productDetail.htm?pid=00020170926114319067noQch0M206A3

This batch is 13,5TH and ship earlier on 21-30 Nov
https://shop.bitmain.com/productDetail.htm?pid=000201709281019141777wvS8I1g068C

I am very interest to buy but with my current customs policy, better buy in the local market although its higher price but its certain than my shipment stuck in customs' gate
Where are you from ?

It's easy to avoid custom in EU.


Could you tell me how please?
I have few miners comming to uk and they charge about 20% here. and i was thinking to get few in slovakia too.
i tried to add message for delivery to declare under value but it was not possible (canaan)
thanks
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Activity: 135
Merit: 100
i have a kind off topic question

does anyone knows, or better bitmain's forum account to reply, if bitmain accepts local pick up from any place, warehouse or something like that, in China?
a friend of mine is traveling in some cities in China and
i am interesting for a single piece, so it would be carried easily back home

taxes  and customs are increasing the price as hell


I don't think that this can be possible
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