Topic: Bitmain's Released Antminer S9, World's First 16nm Miner Ready to Order - page 47. (Read 531164 times)

A lot better than sending another wire that’s for sure. I guess let’s see if they ask or just let us slide.

they will ask you to pay the balance in BCH

Did any get a payment conformation by wire for the last S9 batch?

don't know about the chips in those, but this is Samsung making complete miners. Also mentioned GPU miners down the road. Looks like they are fully committed to taking on Bitmain head on

Interesting, is anyone actually using T9s? They were not available for quite some time. Now shipping in 10 days? Can anyone decipher Bitmains strategy here? They release weaker miners like T9 and A3, shipping in 10 days, while the S9 are not available at all.

Samsung has officially announced that they have begun production of ASIC miners today. So it is a possibility that Bitmain is making some moves  

https://www.newsbtc.com/2018/01/30/samsung-south-koreas-largest-company-manufacturing-asic-chips-bitcoin-mining/

My S9s are running on 220V and hashrates are exactly as advertised.

If you mean hashrates at the pool, you need to check your connection. Ping the pool servers and choose the fastest one.

and what are the chances that they will release another batch for half the price with a delayed delivery like they did with the A3?!

Bitmain dumping stock! Samsung has started enter ASIC miner???

I hope you have registered on the Bitmain site. They send us emails announcing new batches. Its usually available on Twitter also (75% of the time). If you have already bought a few times from their site, the chances that they will let you know about batches increases drastically. I wouldnt trust telegram completely. Regarding prices, you should be able to get it at the same price as Bitmain plus import VAT plus airport clearance paperwork (if going through an agent). It will not cost you more than EUR 2800 to buy a S9, inclusive of APU + shipping + Import VAT + Customs Clearance + Logistics to data center + Installation charges. These are Georgia rates. This is assuming the prices from the last batch.

Please make sure that you go ahead with a data center that does not charge you much to order the miner for you. You can generally trust data centers that make their money on the monthly maintenance charges. If they charge you a huge premium to buy the miner on your behalf, it won't work out well for you with bulk orders. Yes, you need to pay something extra for someone who manages to place the order in less than 100 seconds (It's not easy. Trust me.). And now some batches have an individual limit of 20 machines per account. Some batches are still bulk batches. Hope this helps. Please feel free to ask me more about this if you have more queries. We have been buying regularly from Bitmain for more than a year now and have had a decent success rate in ordering. It was really hard in the beginning, but its smooth now.

and again thank you !

No problems. When you start Telegram, go to Contacts >> and then in the search field, just paste @BitmainNotifyBot
Then it will appear.

Me again sorry but I dont see how or where to add it : I'm new in telegram and the only tabs I have in add contact are name and tel number ? Where can I add @BitmainNotifyBot please ?

ok thank you guys !

I am in Europe too.
Just add this to your Telegram contacts:
@BitmainNotifyBot

And be prepared to be buzzed everyday when they release the Litecoin miners and PSUs
But eventually they will release S9 too, just keep an eye on the bot.

Twitter and telegram

hi guys,

could you tell me how you do to be warned when s9 are available in real time ? Is there a trick ? You pay someone to stay all the time in front of bitmainshop screen refreshing?!
 You keep it secret ? 
Because prices here from sellers are just crazy ( 3700 / 4500€    they can keep it and put them...)

I've red something about Telegram ?! ( I precise I'm in europe .)

thank you.

You dont need to wait 5 years. You break even in less than 7 months. I broke even on some of my machines in less than 3 months last year. Your worst case now, is breaking even in 10 months. That's assuming this current price and difficultly holds (it never does).

Well thats just the thing with being a serious miner isn't it........Once you're mining, you can't stop for at least 5 years until your infrastructure has paid for itself.

This has always been the case ever since 2015. Nothing really changed. As much as I want mining to decentralize, it will never be as decentralized as the nodes, its still a long way off. There will always be advantage of scale (and electricity)

If price drops that much, miners will switch to other coins. BTC difficulty will come down and it will be profitable. That's my assessment. We will know for sure when it actually happens.
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nowadays it is very risky to buy a miner and think ROI with too much volatility and uncertainty where I think many are buying a miner for the fun of mining more than an immediate investment and ROI or to get rich. But buying 1 miner and hoping to make profits is highly unlikly and uncertain.

People who already are mining would keep on adding more miners with time to keep up with the difficulty as they capable of purchasing and adding without worrying much about the ROI since their mining operation is already in place.

I dont understand. If btc falls to near 2500 levels, u gonna take a few years to break even or never break even. It will probably never occur as new miners come out by then.
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If price drops that much, miners will switch to other coins. BTC difficulty will come down and it will be profitable. That's my assessment. We will know for sure when it actually happens.