Bitmain release a Asic Miner for Equihash

Got shipment notification this morning for my 1st order. Order id was 0012018050305266.

Breakdown as follows:

001 - something
20180503 - payment date
05266 - order sequence for 2018-05-03
 
Got shipment notification this morning for my 1st order. Order id was 0012018050305266.

Breakdown as follows:

001 - something
20180503 - payment date
05266 - order sequence for 2018-05-03

neither of mine have shipped yet - but I ordered my first one on 5/4.
 
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My favorite Equihash coin for mining has soft forked making these ASICs unusable.
 
Did you read it? Even some of the zcash team members are not happy. They premine with all new machines before they ship. And not for just a day or 2.
 
Did you read it? Even some of the zcash team members are not happy. They premine with all new machines before they ship. And not for just a day or 2.
A part of any quality control process is running equipment. I worked at Dimplex Thermal Solutions for a while which makes massive cooling things for stuff like giant lasers and other cool giant stuff with radiators bigger than I've ever seen before. 48 hours or more is just starting to warm machines up. From a manufacturing standpoint they have valid reason to "premine" on the machines for even a week with valid quality control reasons. Now I personally think they do it for a month which is extreme but you can't sue them because they have legit claims where they could say 95% of all failure is in the first 30 days. That and they're in China where laws don't really exist for consumer protection.

I think they are quite possibly the shadiest company on the planet but they print money and are set to take over the world if the coins actually do what any of us hope they do.
 
Anyone know what the duty/tax is from UPS? Just saw I owe import COD charges but no mention of amount.
 
Got my 1st unit delivered just now. Ran it for 2 minutes at the default 500 MHz, then upped it to 643. No HW errors and hashing at around 14.5 KSol:

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View from pool side (MPH doing BTG for right now):

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Actual unit is very small and light:

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My 2nd unit shipped yesterday and should be arriving Tuesday. 3rd unit shipped today and should be here Wednesday.

I never had to pay any duty/tax, although I did get this scam email this morning (DHL tracking number did match my 1st unit sitting here next to me):

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of [email protected]
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2018 6:26 AM
To: ####################
Subject: Customs Clearance Notification

Dear crazydane,
The product you bought from Bitmain is proceeding to customs clearance. Please contact your regional branch of the shipping company with the required documents and/or tax to do the customs clearance.
Please find the package information as below:
DHL
Tracking No.#######
If you do not take immediate action and finish customs clearance, the product will be discarded by your local customs. We do not accept any refund requests in case of failure of customs clearance.
Please contact local carrier first immediately for further help.
Please kindly inform us if you are working on Customs Clearance.
You can track the package in below website, http://www.17track.net/en/
Again, if your products are returned, you will have to cover a round of shipping cost as well Chinese import tax, which may be more than your local customs tax.
We want you to receive your shipment promptly but customs clearance is entirely out of our control. Please take immediate action to avoid delays or additional costs.
Please do NOT reply to this email, submit a ticket via Support-Leave a message. Mark your Order ID, carrier and tracking numbers on the title is extremely important to avoid delay reply.
Regarding Ticket Type*, please select A2-A25-A253~A256.
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Since I already have the unit in hand, it is obviously not being "discarded by your local customs". LOL
 
How loud is it?

NICE overclock!!!!!! That's the equivalent to about (21) 1080TI's in hash rate at 1/10 the power!

How much power is it using with your overclock? Looks like heat isn't an issue - it's tempting to turn it up a bit more after you verify via a bit more time you aren't dropping hashing boards/chips.

That 40% overclock is a direct correlation to profitability!



PS I'm jealous - because my first one arrives Monday and my second one hasn't shipped yet. AND I have to pay $70 import duties to UPS for each one before they let me take possession of it. I should have used DHL, but I've heard they get stuck in customs sometimes for weeks and I didn't want to risk that. But it seems a common theme that if you order through DHL shipping and it doesn't get stuck, then you don't have to pay import taxes.
 
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Noise is about what you would expect from a 120mm fan running at ~ 3,000 rpm. I had it sitting next to me on my desk and I could still carry on a conversation on my phone and it was not objectionably loud, but I would not want it there long term. But I think it would be fine sitting in a corner of an office without being too much of a nuisance.
 
Yes, it is tempting to turn it up a bit more. In fact I did. :D

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Temps are still fine. Actually a bit lower now that I moved the Z9 down into the shop where it gets a lot more airflow.

So I tried NH, and I'm seeing the same things as others, very high reject rates:

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And:

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Right now I don't really have anything else on Equihash (most rigs are doing lyra2rev2).

I opened a ticket with NH regarding the issue.

I'll see about rigging up a 240V power cord to where I can put my current probe on it.
 
too bad I only can give you one like on that post.

Thanks for testing nicehash. MPH is fine. I already have an account there.

I love the almost 60% O/C with no errors on MPH. Fantastic!

As to power. I plan to run my pair off a normal ATX PSU. Probably a 1000 watt gold, so I can use a kill-a-watt meter and get pretty specific measurements on the power use with the overclock come Monday, when my first one arrives.
 
I'm finding that OC'ing above 643/650 doesn't really do anything except perhaps burn more power (I'll be plotting power consumption starting tomorrow morning when I get my current probe connected.

That said, I'm leaving at at 656 overnight just to get a decent baseline.

Things are still looking great pool side on MPH:

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And I got Awesome Miner pulling data from it as well:

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Been a while since I have had something that cost me less than $2k pull down $30/day. I know it won't last, but at roughly 350 watts (estimate) this thing is sipping power compared to anything else I've had before it.
 
Damn. That is nice as an initial thought.

My second thought is were will that number be in say 2 months.

After that, the next thought is at 350w.... You would have to be paying literally dollars per kwh to lose money...

Wow, I even posted a couple up saying GPUs or bust.

:p
 
This guy has some overclocking and power use settings up in his video. NSFW for language.

 
So I got a current probe connected and I also, based on some texting back and fourth with voskcoin, decided to max out the OC to 750 MHz.

Here's the miner status after running at 750 MHz for a little over 30 minutes:

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Fan is now at 3,800 rpm and temps are mid 60's. Here a power graph showing the increase from running at 650 to 750 OC: (ignore the power readings prior to 10:30 am as the probe was connected to something else)

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So the baseline power consumption at 650 MHz was 292 watts. At 750 MHz, the baseline increased to 342 watts.

So my average Sol/s at 650 MHz was 14.56, and at 750 MHz it increased to 16.30. So another 1,740 Sol/S cost me an extra 50 watts. Definitely worth it I think (assuming the Z9 doesn't blow up). Figured I better get my earnings while I can. :)
 
temps may mean more than just performance. crank the AC and keep these suckers as cold as possible. run them maxed out as long as you can. get that paid off before the market shifts on you.
 
Still rock steady at maxed out OC of 750 MHz.

I do see spikes as high as high as 485 Watts, so keep that in mind if you plan to run multiple units off a single PSU.

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Average KSol/S after 5 hours and 20 minutes is 16.39 and not a single HW error.

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Things are looking good pool side:

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Boy would I have loved to have had a dozen of these back in the fall of last year!
 
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so they're whining that they didn't get a free one and are likely going out of their way to make sure it doesn't work for bitmain.
 
My first one was delayed in customs until tomorrow. (ordered 5/4)
My second one ordered on 5/11 is also scheduled to arrive tomorrow.

Oddly - I only got notification for payment to customs through UPS on one????

First one:
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second one:
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My cousin ordered four of these, and one his is holed up in PA in customs and UPS wants his social security number to release it?!?!? He's trying to figure out if that's even legit.

The other three he has are still in shipping too.

Some of you guys getting yours last week??? what does your shipping manifest/stop list look like in comparison? My first one is still in Japan four days after it shipped.
 
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Interesting --- B1G1F at Innosilicon on their A9 Zmaster.
http://www.innosilicon.com/html/a9-miner/index.html


Even more interesting - Innosilcon is shipping a second free A9 ZMasterto all customers who previously bought a unit.

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I wish Bitmain would do that....but nope we got a $250 off coupon for another antminer that expires in one month. (not that I'm complaining - because we didn't technically deserve anything - we bought knowing all the risks)....But that's a nice move by Innosilicon to make their B1G1F offer retroactive.


100,000 ksols/s for $10K and 1240 watts.
Guess they had to lower their price to keep in line with the Z9 mini's current $850 price point.


Either that or they know something we don't.
 
Mine one unit arrived about an hour ago. Plugged it in and in 10 mins it was pulling 10-11ksol for what ever bitmain mining pool it was set up for.

I have it on NiceHash, but will likely move it given new info.

Thanks for the invaluable info PCLausen.

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Mine one unit arrived about an hour ago. Plugged it in and in 10 mins it was pulling 10-11ksol for what ever bitmain mining pool it was set up for.

I have it on NiceHash, but will likely move it given new info.

Thanks for the invaluable info PCLausen.
I plan to do mining pool hub too. Auto converting to BTC. I’ll keep a few Zcash tokens though it’s anyones guess if Asics hurt or help zec value.
 
In the meantime, maybe spin up flypool, or Nanopool? It sucks not to be mining with that equipment in hand!

Asicminer value suggests these pools in addition to antpool.

SlushPool
slushpool.com

NanoPool
nanopool.org

FlyPool
zcash.flypool.org
 
Got my other 2 Z9's in today since they showed up early at the DHL delivery office. Fired them up and cranked them up to 750 MHz out the gate:

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All are doing about $30/day still on MPH:

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Combined hashrate is looking good pool side as well:

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Never had to pay any customs on any of them. 2 went through Cincinnati and one came through NYC.
 
I plan to do mining pool hub too. Auto converting to BTC. I’ll keep a few Zcash tokens though it’s anyones guess if Asics hurt or help zec value.

So it doesn't look like MPG currently supports Auto Exchange for BTG:

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But I'll probably still switch over to auto exchange from ZEN a little later today as I think that will be a safer bet that just staying on one of the Equihash coins since nobody knows what will happen over the next few weeks with all the forks, etc.
 
My 2 came today. They worked out of the gate at 750mhz.

My friend’s came today too and I helped him set it up. We also set his to 750Mhz without issue.

He has this EVGA 600 watt power supply and his z9 mini used 460 watts mining at 110v at 750mhz overclock.
https://www.evga.com/products/product.aspx?pn=100-W1-0600-RX

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Another friend is using an eBay HP 750 watt common slot platinum efficiency server power supply with a breakout board on 110v with the same 750 MHz overclock and he sees <400 watt.

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My pair of Z9 minis are sharing a RaidMax Vampire Gold Efficiency 1000 watt PSU connected to 240 volt power line. My Smart HP PDU says the pair are drawing 3 amps. So I'm assuming that's ~750 watts. Mine are both overclocked to 750Mhz too.

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So the power draw differences perhaps speaks to the efficiency difference between the PSUs, 110 vs. 220v -- or perhaps a small variance in the units too?



----- as to the overclocks...


My cousin bought four of these and his friend bought one - all five of those clock to 750Mhz without issue to. Someone smart should figure out how to unlock the firmware clock and sell the unlocked firmware on eBay for $10 a pop. I wonder just how high these things could actually go? Temps are just fine, and we have a 60% - 70% overclock happening over original spec speed of 10ksol/s.
 
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pclausen


Why’d you choose to mine Bitcoin Gold at MPH vs the other Equihash options. I just pointed mine towards Zcash.


Zencash, seems the most profitable, but scares me a bit with this message at MPH. And I like the auto convert features of MPH - so I'm staying there.
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well -- until I saw this... ;)

Now one of mine is on zcash and the other is autoswitching...I'll see how that's working out in the morning.

 
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I don't know how to monitor the progress of the Z9 mini when it's set to port 17023 for auto alogo switching with MPH. It's elusive and while it looks like it's working through the Antminer local interface (acceptance levels look normal and expected), I can't tell exactly what it's doing on MPH pools. It doesn't seem to show up under hub workers like it does when you just select a specific port (tied to a specific algorithm) and only mine that single token.

Anyone figured out how to monitor the specific progress when using the Equihash autoselect port?
 
Yeah you have to manually skip around between the 3 supported coins (ZEN, ZEC, ZCL) to see which is being mined at any given moment. It kinda sucks.

I have been stuck on ZEN for the last 10 hours with no payouts. In fact it looks like something is wrong.

Est. Shares 7,637,392 (done: 8275.69%)
Your Valid 1,292,671.8750
Your Invalid 281.2500 (0.02%)

8275% ?

And overall stats for ZEN on MPH shows that time since last block was over 10.5 hours ago. If it doesn't catch up soon, I'll be pointing my Z9's elsewhere. Friend of mine with a Z9 is seeing the same thing.

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Looks like the boys over at MPH are asleep at the wheel:

https://blog.zencash.com/mandatory-upgrade-zen-2-0-14-super-nodes/

From the above link:

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We are pleased to announce ZenCash 2.0.14 upgrade is now available! All node operators, exchanges, and pool operators must update from the previous version before June 28th when the current version is deprecated and will stop working (at block 332576). Please follow the instructions below.
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sigh

I was wondering what was happening too. I had just pointed one of my z9 at zencash this morning because whattomine suggested it was the most profitable today. The other one I'm mining Bitcoin Gold and autoconverting to BTC. That should work out okay until 7/1 when Bitcoin Gold is supposed to fork.
 
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