Topic: Bitmain's Released Antminer S9, World's First 16nm Miner Ready to Order - page 67. (Read 531168 times)

No one knows what will happen. These could be making $5 a day in march or $50 a day. They could be worthless before you even get them or they could be selling for $12,000 on eBay and you couldn't get your hands on one for 6 months. The question is are you a gambler?

Yeah, it makes more sense that this batch was leftovers because there were hardly any for sale. I'll be waiting for their next batch, hopefully they release soon so I can get in, lol. I'm just afraid of a hike in price, but like you said their price usually correlates with what bitcoin is doing, so the price shouldn't change much unless the price of bitcoin does.

The price of the batch changes with the price of what bitcoin is at the time when they release them. It is a factor in how they price the machines. It can go up and down just like the price of bitcoin. When it was over $2700 for an s9 bitcoin was around 18-19k. Back in early November when it was $1400 for an s9 bitcoin was in the 6-8K range. If bitcoin gets up to around 30k expect to see them being priced around $4800. If bitcoin goes down to $8000 you can expect them to be priced around $1400 again.

I believe this batch sold out quicker because it was the left over ones that people did not pay for when they released them on the 3rd. They usually wait about 5 days to give everyone time to pay for them and if they don't they put the unpaid ones back up for sale. They say you have an hour to complete payment but they give you a little more time. The order may expire but if the payment goes through within the day or two following they will mark your expired order paid and valid usually. So everyone sitting at their computer all night waiting for them to put the ones people did not pay for in an hour back up can just forget about it and wait a few days. However it is best to make the payment quickly because your spot in the shipping line is determined by when they get payment. This was the first batch for March. Expect to see the second batch for the end of march come up for sale probably in about another week or two.

Ha! Didn’t realize that. I didn’t know they had multiple GMT. The website says ‘coming soon’. Historically when have they come up for sale when ‘coming soon’ is listed?

17:00 GMT + 8 is Eastern Europe 11:00 (GMT + 2), London 9:00 am (GMT) and East Coast 4:00 am.
I for sure checked the site at the correct time and all was greyed out; I guess they also sold it out immediately.

4 am Eastern I think

The post says Jan 8th. 5PM today (8 Jan, GMT+8) here:/tYUj8M]https://[Suspicious link removed]/tYUj8M


https://twitter.com/BITMAINtech/status/950266001345531904

Thats 12pm EST i dont see them for sale?

The last two times the S9 was on sale the price was $2320.  The previous price was $2725.  Prior to that I believe it was $1410 or so.

Anything over $2000 w/PSU, delivered, is a bridge too far, IMO.

Yes, they make money, but how much longer will they continue producing $30/day?  Newer, faster machines are being released by competitors, difficulty will continue to rise, and Bitmain somehow thinks that justifies doubling the price?  By the time the March batches deliver you could very easily be looking at a 200 day ROI on a $2600 machine (by the time you include shipping & PSU - not to mention any import taxes you may have to pay).

Correct me if I am wrong, but  few weeks ago, the latest batch price for S9 miner was around 2800 USD (I remember, because it was exactly double price of what I paid for one in October - 1400 USD). The latest price today was 2320 USD, so I guess it is correcting as following the price of BTC/BCH.

This is completely useless post.

You don't need to download anything when mining with the S9.

It comes with the built-in software, which includes a Cgminer software fork called "BMminer".

You access the S9 via the web configuration page using a web browser.

WTF? Why don't you learn first, post second?

I've got it too, but for some reason by the time mine went off I was looking at the red buy button turn into a grey sold out button...

Your guess is as good as mine man. I forget which post I saw it on (maybe this one?) but I need to give mad props to who ever it was who posted about the bitmain notification bot on the telegram app. It posted an alert of availability at 04:12am and posted a sold out notification at 04:14am, damn thing was spot on.

A few more should be available soon, hopefully at least, from those who couldn't pay.

WTF, I didn't even see them in stock, they sold out between my F5 hits. In any case, I already ordered 1 at same price and delivery date the other day, I wasn't going to order another one today. I'm glad someone here actually got some.

think no warranty under any circumstance.

While not true  it is close enough.

if in USA

a company named bitmainwarranty.com  will charge you for a repair  or sell a warranty

it is the better method  to fix a broken s-9

It is wise to simply think that dead gear may be very costly

Wtf, I was not expecting it to be sold out THAT quickly!

How did they sell out in 4 minutes? Did they only release 10 of the damn things?

Spamming refresh, got impatient, quickly got up for drink with phone in hand, then the telegram bot I downloaded a few weeks ago goes off which instantly sends me diving for the keyboard   
Screw the spilled soda on the new rug I got my order in during that 2 minute window of availability

No, 1 hour, only 30 minutes.