THELOGICALINDIAN - On Monday June 17 the Chinese mining rig architect Bitmain Technologies appear the barrage of a lowcost miner alleged the Antminer S9 adaptation SE The new 16 terahash per additional 16THs S9 SE is 350 per assemblage and the barrage celebrates the companys best accepted artefact the aboriginal S9
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Special Edition S9 With 16 Terahash per Second
Bitmain has launched yet addition artefact for abandoned miners and ample operations, but this accurate Antminer is a bargain mining rig. The aggregation appear the latest Antminer S9 Special Edition (SE) on Monday and the aboriginal accumulation went on auction the afterward day. The new S9 SE blueprint detail that the miner processes the SHA-256 algorithm (BTC and BCH) at 16 terahash per additional (16TH/s). The miner takes 1280W from the bank which leads to carrying a ability ability of 80 joules per terahash (J/TH).
“The bequest that always larboard its mark in the mining industry — Introducing a Special Edition miner, the Antminer S9 SE which continues that actual aforementioned legacy,” Bitmain announced on Monday.
The S9 SE is affairs for $350 per mining rig and in adjustment to anticipate accession the aggregation has bound adjustment to 10 miners per order. The aboriginal accumulation of rigs is accepted to address amid July 21-31 on first-paid-first-ship basis. Of course, U.S. association will accept to pay added than the blow of the apple because of the accepted trade war tariffs accomplished by Donald Trump. People aircraft miners to the U.S. will pay an added 2.6% tax and an added 25% acceptation assignment tax. The new S9 SE weighs about 4.5kg and back operating the assemblage puts out about 76 decibels (dB) of complete which is a blow louder than acceptable dB outputs. According to the specifications, there are three assortment boards with about 180 Bitmain-designed chips. However, the S9 SE affidavit does not acknowledge what blazon of semiconductors are acclimated with the assortment boards.
Second Market, Old and Low-Hashrate Mining Rigs
Bitmain’s latest bargain miner absolution follows the bulk of next-generation miners the aggregation appear over the aftermost few months. This includes the Bitmain Antminer S17 Pro (53TH/s), S17 (56TH/s), T17 (40TH/s), S15 (28TH/s), T15 (23TH/s), and the S11 (20.5TH/s). The latest S9 SE adaptation is added commensurable to the Antminer S9 Hydro (18TH/s), but after the baptize functionality.
The bargain S9 SE comes at a time back mining revenues accept been so acceptable that earlier and low-hashrate accessories are profiting. For instance, the 2016 S9 adaptation with 11.5 terahash per additional is still profiting by at atomic $0.75 per day at current prices and at $0.13 per kilowatt-hour (KWh). Coinshare’s latest mining address addendum that earlier S9s are still actuality awash on the accessory bazaar for “700 or 800 yuan” or “as low as $150 USD.” Even the earlier Antminer S7s could still be profiting as the June 2019 mining report notes:
Moreover, mining has become acutely aggressive over the aftermost few months and both BTC and BCH assortment ante accept been steadily climbing. For example, according to the analytic abstracts from Charts.Bitcoin.com, there’s a absolute of 56.5 exahash per additional (EH/s) with BTC capturing 54 EH/s while BCH has 2.5 EH/s. The Antminer S9 SE absolution shows Bitmain is demography a ache at aggravating to abduction buyers attractive for earlier or bargain machines. With BCH aloft the $400 amount area per bread and BTC above the $9K region, any mining rigs processing 11 TH/s or added are profiting with $0.13 per KWh. Of course, abounding countries such as China ($0.04 to 0.01 per kWh in Sichuan) and Iran ($0.006 per KWh) accept far lower electric costs than $0.13 per KWh which would accomplish alike lower hashrate bearing models profitable.
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