Mining
The sale of the up to date Professional model of the AntMiner E9 ETC/ETC miner is outwardly going to begin in just a few days in keeping with a tweet from Bitmain. The brand new Bitmain AntMiner E9 Professional ETC miner is meant to ship 3680 MH/s with 2200 Watts of energy utilization or 0.6J per MH/s effectivity with a value of $1299 USD per unit (with out transport and taxes) with the gross sales beginning on February third (as much as 50 miners per order most). The brand new ETChash miner isn’t but listed on the official web site, however ought to quickly seem with gross sales about to begin proper very quickly, it definitely is a pleasant enchancment by way of hashrate and effectivity in comparison with the older non-pro E9 mannequin providing 2400 MH/s at 1920 Watts of energy utilization (0.8 J/M). No phrase on the quantity of accessible reminiscence on the brand new E9 Professional items, however it’s most probably 6GB like on the older E9 fashions, so that ought to cowl ETC DAG sizes for fairly a while.
With the AntMiner E9 Professional Bitmain is reaching the identical stage of effectivity as the most recent technology of compact iPollo ETH/ETC miners, although iPollo is but to replace their bigger miners with the most recent {hardware} and to supply such low costs as Bitmain. Jasminer continues to be outperforming each iPollo and Bitmain by way of energy effectivity with their ETH/ETC miners, nonetheless they do come at the next value and are but to assist dual-mining. Bitmain has not supplied dual-mining for ETH/ETC and ZIL on their earlier E9 units and we’re most probably not going to see ZIL dual-mining assist on the brand new fashions as properly, or at the least no work but about it. So, with the present low mining profitability of ETC and enchancment by way of hashrate and energy effectivity is good, however an addition of additional 30 or extra p.c mining revenue from dual-mining with ZIL is one thing that everybody would like to have. For now, solely iPollo does present assist for dual-mining with ZIL on their newest firmware, so it will likely be good to additionally see them updating their bigger miners with the most recent {hardware} and with a extra inexpensive value.
