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Collects questions related to the Antminer mining hardware brand produced by Bitmain.

AntMiner is a brand name for bitcoin mining ASIC hardware offered by the Bitmain company

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What would be the Internet Usage For 100 Antminer S7?

I am planing to set up a mini farm with 100 S7 Miners, but am little concerned about the internet usage and speed. What speed do I need and how much bandwidth it will consume per month?
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Overclock Antminer U3 running on raspberry pi

I have an Antminer u3 running on a raspberry pi using bfgminer. Its currently running at 47GH/s. Does anyone know if is possible to over clock it using BGFminer so that it will run at 55 - 60 GH/s? if i cant do it using BFGminer is there another…
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Bitmain AntMiner U1 1.6GH/s - USB Bitcoin ASIC Miner

I am looking at getting a Bitmain AntMiner U1 1.6GH/s - USB Bitcoin ASIC Miner to mine LTC and doing a few calculations. I have used a few LTC profit…
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Higher cost running Antminer S9 w/ APW3++ when running at 220v?

There's plenty of discussions on 110v vs 220v on the web and I'm successfully running 2 Antminer s9's on a 30amp circuit at 110v (or maybe it's 120/125, I don't know how that works). I have not hooked up a volt/watt meter tool up, but if the APW3++…
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Antminer 22nm or 14nm?

I currently have two offers for buying antminer s9. One with a 22nm chip and the other with 14nm. Can somebody give be the pros and cons for both, because i understand that the power consumption would be bigger with the 22nm, but will that mean that…
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Does ASICBOOST only work on Bitmain miners and how does one enable it on these systems?

From what I read ASICBOOST gives you a 30% better hash rate, does this only work on all or certain Bitmain asic miners? And how does one enable this hidden feature in these miners?
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Would like to setup my own mining pool for PPC Peercoin

I have 8 different antminer ASIC's and I would like to setup my own mining pool. I would like to mine PPC aka Peercoin. Everything seems to be very old as far as tutorials and I am looking for something that is possible for a non-programmer to get…
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Is it normal for my hardware hashrate to vary by 15% but still achieve the advertised average?

I have an Antminer S1 and an Antminer C1. They both work as advertised and achieve a three hour hashrate average of 200 Ghash and 1000 Ghash, respectively. However, within any given second they hash within 15% of that average. So the C1 right now is…
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Bitmain Antminer U3 keeps going Zombie

I got 2 U3 running on Linux Ubuntu cgminer 4.9.0. Dedicated Power Supply New short USB cables Cold room ambient 5 degrees celcius (heat sinks don't go over 40 degrees) Not once have I managed to run them longer than 24 hours. Does anybody know why…
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How does difficulty impact profitability? what is the formula?

I have an Antminer S9 ASIC miner , and I have visited this , but I want to know how difficulty may impact my profitability in the future. I would also like to estimate break even costs.
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Antminer L3++ Where is Chain 1

Is there supposed to be a Chain 1 here also? My other miner has Chains 1 - 4. If so, any troubleshooting steps or way to buy new part? Thanks! :)
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What are the Differences Between an Antminer S9 and an Antminer S9i

On the Bitmain Website they now list the Antminer S9i how is this different than the S9?
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ASICs not receiving all nonces

I have an Antminer S9 where one of the chains is not hashing. In the logs I see the following: get nonces on chain[7] require nonce number:912 require validnonce number:57456 asic[00]=00 asic[01]=00 asic[02]=00 asic[03]=00 asic[04]=00 asic[05]=00…
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US Power Supply for Antminer s9

I have ordered Antminer S9. After doing some research I discovered that APW3+-12-1600 PSU 1600W is a recommended power supply however it requires 200+ voltage which is not available to me. I live in the US and the standard wall socket output voltage…
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Initial setup Antminer S7

I have a worker on slush's pool, I have my BFGminer running (Pool 0 is hiding block contents unsure if that's important) and my Antminer S7, but I can't seem to get it to see it as a device. It ask for a target which is a serial port to probe for…
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