Anyone who ordered an S9 ... words from a Bitmain employee
"so…my S9 doesn’t work on the pool"
"works on antpool"
Heh - oh well ... I guess it's expected that Bitmain would do something like that sooner or later ...
Really? Imagine if they really hard coded to only use antpool, that I hope would create a boycott.
They've added a new unknown stratum method to all your S9 miners ... who knows what it does.
"mining.multi_version"
Antpool obviously uses it to do something to your mining ... ... ... what? ... who knows.
and i thought my rentals stopping halfway was bad, when I woke up this morning....
I placed an order for 1 x S9 to continue mining BTC. Less power consumption, more hashes, no brainer.
If there was another company that sells better gear with good repute, I will buy from them. For now, only Bitmain is shipping the 16nm ASICS gear.
If there is another provider that sell better deals for renting hash, I would buy from them. For now, only NH and MRR exist.
IMHO, it will be unwise for BITMAIN to rig the S9 only to mine at their pool - if Antpool is 30-35% of global pool size, why would they forego the other 70% .... what would the other Chinese pool, like F2pool, BTCC etc. say to this? Leaving profit on the table does not compute....
Meanwhile....
BLOCK!!!
I have never seen so much/many payouts in my kano.is life....
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) group of all miner gear owners? 
