If you are a small crypto miner and not a large mining operation you may find it very hard to acquire up to date Bitcoin ASIC miners as the demand is still pretty high and the wait time is long. If you manage to find an ASIC miner is stock the chances are the price will be significantly higher as they are being resold with serious profit by people that prefer to make money this way instead of mining with the devices. At the moment there are pretty much 4 main manufacturers of Bitcoin ASIC miners that sell to end users and in small quantities and as you might expect they do not have anything in stock as the wait time is in months. Bitmain AntMiner S9 (13.5 THS) Bitmain is the most popular name among the ASIC manufacturers and probably the biggest one as well and even they are struggling to have stock of the they produce. It is interesting to note that the S9 has started shipping in the summer of 2016 and is still their top product. Bitmain has already sold all of their production up until the end of March, so when they release a new batch it will be scheduled for delivery sometime in April earliest. Canaan AvalonMiner 821 (11 THS) Canaan has been making their Avalon miners for years, though they were a bit slower in terms of specifications as compared to Bitmain and not as popular among end user miners. Their latest AvalonMiner 821 was announced in December last year and just started shipping its first batches for people that have preordered early. You can currently preorder AvalonMiner 821 for shipping/delivery in the second half of March, so you can probably get these a bit earlier than if you wait to preorder an AntMiner. Prohashing is a pay per share (PPS) mining pool that mines cryptocurrencies using the scrypt and x11 algorithms. However, some cloud mining services penalize miners out of proportion with their mining rigs' characteristics. It mines at the network difficulty, and each hash is either too easy, or it is a found block. Ebang Ebit Miner E10 (18 THS) Ebang’s Ebit miners are mostly popular in Asian countries, though they are trying to get to a wider market and their latest announcement of a 10 nm ASIC miner – the E10 made some waves. It is however an expensive device and still hard to get with a minimum purchase quantity of 20 units and all batches already sold through the end of March. Halong Mining DragonMint 16T Miner (16 THS) is a newcomer that just recently announced their plans to enter the Bitcoin ASIC miner market to try and fight with the market dominance that BitMain already has. They are still yet to start shipping their first devices in March this year and you cannot currently preorder units on their website with new batches probably to be available for April earliest. There is an interesting new Chinese company called Octominer that is apparently focusing on the GPU mining market by offering a specialized mining motherboard for 8 GPU mining rigs. The Octominer B8PLUS motherboard has 8x full size PCI-E slots spaced decently enough to eliminate the need to use PCI-E riser boards. The manufacturer suggests that the motherboard is suitable for any Nvidia or AMD GPU that is 4.5 cm or thinner, so all 2 slot thickness cards should fit, 2.5 slot cards might also fit, but very tightly and there could be some trouble with cooling them. Furthermore the motherboard comes with integrated Intel mobile CPU with built-in graphics. The motherboards uses SO-DIMM DDR4 memory and comes with M-SATA slot for an SSD memory and a sATA interface for an external HDD or SSD drive that you need to buy separately of course. Bminer is a relatively new miner for Nvidia GPUs for mining cryptocurrencies using the Equihash algorithm such as Zcash (ZEC). It is a closed source miner, available for both Windows and Linux operating systems and comes with a 2% dev fee included (optional, though disabling it apparently removes some optimizations). Bminer comes as an alternative to the, the development of which has been stalled for a while already, as well as the more recent that looks promising and is actively being developed, but still lacks some features such as failover pool support for example. So any new alternatives such as Bminer that are being actively improved and developed are more than welcome for the users and the crypto community as well. According to its developers and most users that have tried the Bminer already it is the fastest publicly available Equihash miner for Nvidia GPUs and we can confirm that our initial impressions are showing a better local hashrate compared to the alternatives mentioned. So if you have a Compute Capability 5.0 or newer Nvidia GPU used for mining you might want to give Bminer a go and see if it will work better for you. The miner does come with SSL support as well as Nicehash support, has some interesting extra features, though it is still very easy to use. There is also an API and a web-based interface available for monitoring of your mining rigs that can be quite useful, so go and give it a try and report your results. Copyright ©2014-2018 - - All About BTC, LTC, ETH mining as well as other alternative crypto currencies. This is a blog for crypto currency miners and users of Bitcoin (BTC), Litecoin (LTC), Ethereum (ETH), ZCash (ZEC) and many others. If you find helpful and useful information you can support us by donating altcoins or Bitcoin (BTC) to: 1AxbMZwtcmCByrHiaWwhse5r6ea1YgBwk1 ETH: 0x8d785ff337046444d8afbac169bcb7c0adfb3266 - LTC: LPYFPK7dL1uEtwrAteLmxs7w8Je446gAAJ - ZEC: t1gg5rWxeMBMsyDRMrq5PJdFLiWQ86LGggi. Scrypt (by Wikipadia) In cryptography, scrypt is a password-based key derivation function created by Colin Percival, originally for the Tarsnap online backup service. The algorithm was specifically designed to make it costly to perform large-scale custom hardware attacks by requiring large amounts of memory. In 2012, the scrypt algorithm was published by IETF as an Internet Draft, intended to become an informational RFC. A simplified version of scrypt is used as a proof-of-work scheme by a number of cryptocurrencies first implemented by an anonymous programmer called ArtForz in Tenebrix followed by Fairbrix and Litecoin soon. SCRYPT A password-based key derivation function (password-based KDF) is generally designed to be computationally intensive, so that it takes a relatively long time to compute (say on the order of several hundred milliseconds). Legitimate users only need to perform the function once per operation (e.g., authentication), and so the time required is negligible. However, a brute-force attack would likely need to perform the operation billions of times, at which point the time requirements become significant and, ideally, prohibitive. Previous password-based KDFs (such as the popular PBKDF2 from RSA Laboratories) have relatively low resource demands, meaning they do not require elaborate hardware or very much memory to perform. They are therefore easily and cheaply implemented in hardware (for instance on an ASIC or even an FPGA). This allows an attacker with sufficient resources to launch a large-scale parallel attack by building hundreds or even thousands of implementations of the algorithm in hardware and having each search a different subset of the key space. This divides the amount of time needed to complete a brute-force attack by the number of implementations available, very possibly bringing it down to a reasonable time frame. The scrypt function is designed to hinder such attempts by raising the resource demands of the algorithm. Specifically, the algorithm is designed to use a large amount of memory compared to other password-based KDFs, making the size and the cost of a hardware implementation much more expensive, and therefore limiting the amount of parallelism an attacker can use, for a given amount of financial resources. / 17th March 2017 BTCERY INTRODUCTION BTCERY offers anonymous, safe, fast, quality mining pools for cryptocurrency like DASH, BITCOIN, LITECOIN, ZCASH, Z-CLASSICS making your mining experience flawless is their core mission so they charge only 0,1% transaction fee which is lowest in the industry. It only takes minutes to get up and mining with them. They are currently mining the most popular SHA256, Scrypt and X11 coins. Also they run separate pull for mining Zcash and Zclassic. These coins based on zero-knowledge protocol providing you true anonymity. 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They have opened their private mining installation to the public and private investors. Their first target was to deliver 1 PH of mining power in their first public farm by the end of 2015. They are constantly expanding their operations with new locations and installations, looking for the most powerful hardware and cheapest electricity to provide you with the best mining efficiency. The mining services industry is littered with failed and dishonest operations that have robbed mining enthusiasts over the years. They believe strong businesses with good leadership and technical knowledge can remain viable in the future. Their efforts are based on a long term and stable vision and they intend to provide transparency and honesty regarding their equipment, mining capacity and contractual offerings. Their hashing power is prepared and sold only after they can guarantee that the infrastructure, mining equipment and electricity can be paid up to the contract expiration dates. Their planned projects are targeted for a vertical integration into the Bitcoin ecosystem, with mining being the first step. / 17th January 2016 ZEUSHASH| MOVED TO OXBT ZEUSHASH Integrated Systems Limited is known for its ability to deliver state of the art crypto currency ASIC chip design and miner manufacturing. Their mission is to connect global crypto currency lovers together and provide excellent goods and services for the community They want to introduce a win-win solution to the community to make the best of global resources to better serve you. Their Global Mining Network consists of many reliable partners together to deliver the most cost-efficient hashing power and cloud service for all customers. Backed by the team that brought the most popular LTC (Scrypt) miner in the world – ZeusMiner, ZeusHash is stable with superior performance from day 1. With their proven track record and transparency, it’s a service you can trust. 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