Topic: Current List of Competitive Hardware - January 2020 - page 2. (Read 13135 times)

At steamtyme please list t17

At octomob gave you a merit for pointing it out.

What about the Bitmain's T17? Are those not competitive enough? 

In case anyone is wondering why I haven't added the M20S to the list yet, despite a couple in the wild. To my knowledge Pangolin has the first complete batch of demo units that should have shipped out, and were available for order off the website. That batch did not completely ship out and I'm unsure how many people did or did not receive them. I know that I did not receive mine, but some higher profile members did receive theirs, which can sometimes be problematic.  Secondly the batch was also delayed several weeks.

So until this is fulfilled I'll cautiously hold off on promoting it through this reference thread.

Thanks for the update, they've joined Halong and been moved to the final stop on the list. Anyone who has ordered gear recently can also fill in on what the USD price was I will try and update that in the next week. M20 will probably be the next gear update, they should be arriving to people in 10-14 days ~ better late than never.

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Just a reminder that this thread serves a running reference to the Hardware Available. This is not a general discussion thread, use the links provided in the OP for each miner, or wherever is suitable.

From my sales person at Bitfily, "They are not making any new miners". so RIP Bitfily and hope I don't break another PSU.

I'm sorry to hear that, Zimba. It is a very weird situation. Their chinese website it is still online.
The company I work at, recently (about 7 weeks ago) have completed a huge buy of 500 or more B1+ asic units. The last new I have hearded was the shipment was sent on time and will arrive in only some days (maritime transport). I will keep you informed about that.

I think Bitfily is down for the count, last I tried to buy from them by the time the wire transfer cleared they were out of any and all miners, used A1, B1 et all, they actually went out and found me used M3's to try and make up, their page is down also. I will confirm in a few days when I contact a sales person I know.

I'll add them to the list the same as the other gear once it's confirmed in the wild. I'm expecting what I believe will be branded an M20S ordered as a demo, within the next 2 weeks - maybe. The lead time was about 6 weeks at time of ordering, but may stretch a bit, I've never gone longer than that and couldn't imagine how hard the waiting game would be. They are however one of the few units that don't come with a hard 240 V cap.

Searing - Yeah I've been fortunate to live in an area that leaves me very well positioned for mining. It's tough for some out there, keep looking for opportunities, if your Winters are cold you may want to consider becoming a seasonal miner, only. I see this as a likely end result for a lot of home miners down the road.

ditto....in my area ... I can get the elec utility (Xcel) to pay same for elec as I pay for (12 winter and 13c summer...more or less).

the CATCH is, however, they go by your LAST YEARS electric use and will only buy back at that rate...so if it was $100 w/o, miners and you have the capacity to do $400 a month with miners....sure you can do it for 6 months but then they adust downward..if you miss that goal but never back upwards..once the miners go off (FML).

So, I can't use the 'extra' capacity of what I use for miners (not selling back to Xcel)  when they go defunct... because even with say a year lag between decent equipment..in 6 months they will adjust downward.

So hell, that sucked.

So back to the equipment side of this post, before it gets deleted for off-topic (where I'm going with this) as a 'equip hedge" (with no real decent equipment miner wise in the next year) a person could use some BTC on a price pump as a hedge against it going down and get a solar setup (my case 9KW is 20k after rebates supposedly)

BUT you'd have to have some miner equipment in place, with a year of electrick use, to justify to Xcel your use of electric at that rate (frigging chicken and egg miner paradox)

The point of this post, you STILL have to find miner equipment that makes sense to mine at say 12-13c kWh and just use that direct to mining...at the point this equipment (next to go around say 2020 equip and beyond) that equip becomes obsolete you could MAYBE stop mining after that point and sell back to the electric utility at the higher use rate for maybe 6-9 months and if lucky the usual winter heat benefit...then they adjust downward and you have an overcapacity solar arrangement that you can't put back till new miners become possible as a hedge.

So I'm still stuck...I can get solar as a 'hedge' in case BTC corrects too much this year and bleed some off...If BTC pumps at least I'd have solar..but that only works IF there is less then dubious equipment I can mine with in 2020 in the basement.

Thus after all that (except for bleeding some BTC off and getting solar out of the deal) I am right back where I started and need equipment that would work in 2020 ..run it for a year or so ..and then maybe, kinda could justify solar.

Sucks that they can regulate how much they will buy back on use...then you can't adjust up after the fact..but they can review in 6 months and adjust downward when the use goes away.

Anyway, I think this is on topic. I thought maybe it was an angle...maybe in some other state...In Minnesota and Xcel I can't give them more electric back from miners..(maybe 6 months) after the miners go to bricks till the next batch of miners come out, say a year later...so the only way solar is any use in my case would be if we have a bubble again and I simply want to buy some solar as a hedge on a drop in price for giggles.....and there is no equipment around I can get instead.

So that was a long way around to find 1) no equipment worth getting in the near future and 2) solar does not give me a working around for this and so back at 1) again...no equipment worth getting in the near future.

Hopefully, someone in another state can tell they don't have this cluster and can get around such.

I thought it was a way (kinda is I guess) to get solar this year and then get miner equipment next year with solar in place. Seems I need the equipment first in both cases and Xcel has all the angles on Solar.

FML

brad

Pricing is fine imo, as nothing else is/will competing with the M20 but yes too long of lead time.

That is one distributor, the other is Pangolinminer. I've used Pango many times for purchasing the M10's. Very good company but ja that long of a lead time for the whatsminers sux big time.

er catch is the 'supposed' out the door is 1st week in August 2019 and the prices suck for that far in the future IMHO.

here is the link.

judge for yourself.

https://whatsminer.net/shop/

NOTE: I AM ASSUMING THE LINK ABOVE IS THE LEGIT SITE. SO BEWARE. DO YOUR RESEARCH.

Micro BT is announcing 4 Whatsminers Sunday the 19th, M20, M20S, M21 and M21S.

May want to watch for that for competitive hardware, I posted their announcement but was promptly deleted for unknown reasons.

thanks found it after the fact also.

Actually the GekkoScience R606 is here on the forum, not some off site sales web page: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/gekkoscience-terminus-r606-750gh-up-to-1th-quiet-miner-now-shipping-5131245.

The Gekkoscience pods and sticks are designed for hobby/home use.

Also, AvalonMiners can be configured for a low power use, the 8 series with the lp firmware is a great combination.

I have a A841 mining at 8Ths hash rate with about a 700W power consumption.

Anything available under, say, 500W?

That would be the stock as advertised specs I believe. I did notice some chat about the firmware. I'll read up on it tonight and figure out how to work it in. Most likely it will be an * about the FW and it's efficiency gains. Good catch.

Is the Canaan efficiency FW spec updated from the newest release?

So some big changes. Bitmain has reclaimed the top spot in efficiency, with the S17. I used their normal numbers for the S17 Pro as advertised.

Halong has been removed from the main list and moved to the bottom as they areno longer operational. Bitfily, Bitfury and Ebang are now in a previously competitive category until they release new hardware.