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At the start of the year we pre ordered the Antminer X9 Monero miner via nhash but we got this message from them a couple days ago saying Bitmain has discontinued it.
They did refund us within a couple of hours of this message and that's cool of them.
RandomX V2 is meant to nerf those anyways lol
you would have ended up with a nice paper weight, like every bitmain products after awhile lmao
idk about riding bitmain's dick about the refund tbh, they made those at a massive loss, the math never made sense unless wanting to be malicious torward the monero network
so yea, fuck bitmain lmao
and like, back in 2017:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/backdoor-code-discovered-in-popular-bitcoin-mining-equipment/
like, yea just fuck bitmain lmao
fuck bitcoin too, fuck blockstream, fuck that whole space
I was actually hoping to get one if one was being sold second hand or something. Where they really nerfed that bad with randomx update to make them unviable?
Having a somewhat decent hashrate with a small physical footprint is very appealing to me, i cant be the only one.
@phlegmscore
am not sure about the actual numbers, the V2 is not live yet
there's some info in the #monero-pow irc channel, but idk if some actual numbers been shared for these yet
maybe @jeffro256 would know more on that, as he shared some info regarding the v2 over there:
https://monero.forum/thread/when-next-monero-upgrade-what-about
Oh yeah X9 specific? Not that I know of. I'd imagine it would be pretty hard to get since they're never going to be released publicly. Closest you could realistically get is measuring the difference in the speed of the RISC-V CPU that the X9 uses.
@jeffro256
to be honest, when i first replied to this thread, i didnt even realized that the X9 was a newer one, but what about the one that was doing like 200Kh/s or something like that? seems like the X9 was meant to be like 1Mh/s, that's craziness like wtf lol
is there any benchmark on their older ones?
You also have to consider that it takes like 25x the power of my current laptop. Mining with this would be like running a large dryer 24/7. In the hash-per-joule metric, they're only about 25% more efficient than newer Ryzen threadripper pros AFAICT.
I also have a machine in my bathroom that can do 5 MH/s @ 1J/kH. And no, you cannot see it.
oooh, i guess it could also be a theory, that they releasing those numbers to fud, but "not selling any" would be the redflag that it's just a claim without actually having those
idk, my theory on that would still be that they did make those but just keeping those for them to mine, like they been doing with their bitcoin miners before selling those
like, idk never had any bitmain product myself but my theory on that has always been that 100% of their supply is "has already been mining for months for themselves"
would make sense there, making sure they working properly, and before end of shelve life (which could be literally however long), then just selling those, taking those profit to make newer ones, infinite shelf lifes and profit for themselves
