ASIC for mining: what is it, why is it and why is it so expensive?

Recently, we have found that mine can not only by using conventional graphics cards purchased in the shop. It turns out that mining has long specialized devices, «imprisoned» only under this process. People call them «miners», in a professional environment gadgets are called ASIC. Perhaps, let us examine a few examples of such devices and learn how best to order them not to accidentally «to give a cock» not to waste their hard-earned money.

Unfortunately, good ASIC device now in short supply, so just go and buy them pretty hard. First and foremost, of course, you need to choose a suitable miner. Of those that are well established, we can offer devices from Bitmain — high-quality and practical vehicles, the main advantages are price, good build quality and reasonable performance.

Perhaps consider a couple.

Power Antminer L3+ leaves 504 MH/s, and it works on the Scrypt algorithm. Last batch pre-order which opened a couple of months ago, should be sent to the clients today or tomorrow. Price is for one ASIC with power supply made at the time about 105 thousand rubles, excluding delivery. Price from dealers is much higher. Now this device is really worth about 300 thousand rubles, and then only by pre-order.

The Advantage of this model is that it more than beats the cost of their own — the developers promise a yield of around nine thousand dollars, though if the owner would mine LTC. Consume while this device is 800W, so it's not very scary.

It is not Surprising that at the beginning of receiving pre orders site regularly «falls» from the influx of wishing to be in the forefront. Sending the finished L3+ also takes place in the order queue. Who had ordered that faster and send.

Another popular manufacturer of this ASIC — Antminer D3, the first device Bitmain created for mining cryptocurrency DASH. The device eats from the socket almost half a kilowatt, while giving a speed of 19 GH/s, promising in this scenario, mine at least 30 dollars a day, which is very bad.

What can be so great that you can now drop everything and order a couple of these devices? No, there are pitfalls. And a lot of them. In addition, it is unknown how many of these gadgets are already sold. Probably a lot, so when they all (or the same brand new L3+) will be included in the outlet, it is unknown what will happen to the speed of production. It is clear that she falls, but by how much? In short, at a price of fifteen hundred dollars a penny for himself ASCI with power supply to expect to make a profit is definitely possible, but not to such an extent.

Bad things and delivery in Russia — such devices are considered equipment for data encryption. However, not only similar. Recently the guy who bought in foreign online store PlayStation 4, the purchase is not returned, since the console has not been registered in Russia, so the prefix is also passed through customs as an unidentified device encryption. Such cases.

How to buy? Probably best in the exploded view, but here it is unclear what to do with the warranty. It is clear that if there is a problem, we must again send the device back to China. And here, too, there are nuances. Because dealers and lyutuyut. To understand all the subtleties, you must first ask , who had the experience of ordering of such gadgets.

As for the buying, everything is quite usual. First you need to register and wait for notification about the beginning of accepting pre-orders. Now the main thing — to be among those people who were able to send everything to the cart and pay for until the next fall's website. Then we can only wait for news from customs or the courier service.

A Couple of tips for new customers:

Bitmain — one of the largest bitcoin mining farms in the world and part of a good equipment manufacturer ASIC. In order to protect potential customers from errors and fraud scams.

The Company notes that it has no official representatives and distributors of its products, and it means that the ASIC can order them only through the official website. In addition, the store they also have only one, it is located at https://shop.bitmain.com/.

No invoices in advance Bitmain does not send on Skype — this is also a sign of fraud. Only by mail and only upon receipt of payment for the order.

To Visit the official website of the company can only be in two ways, namely clicking on one of these links: www.bitmain.com/ or https://shop.bitmain.com/.

Bitmain no Instagram Snapcat and Vkontakte. Relevant information from the manufacturer, you can only get on Facebook, Twitter or by mail. Again, in the latter case, you need to look carefully at the sender's email address — ten times better to compare it with the original, specified on the website than be lazy and send the money who do not understand.

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