Cryptocurrency miners counting on the Bitmain S17 and T17 Antminer have stated that the rigs have failure charges between 20-30% the place they mig
Cryptocurrency miners counting on the Bitmain S17 and T17 Antminer have stated that the rigs have failure charges between 20-30% the place they might usually be roughly 5%.
In line with an April 26 tweet from Samson Mow, Chief Technique Officer (CSO) of blockchain infrastructure agency Blockstream, Bitcoin (BTC) miners utilizing rigs from the world’s largest producer of cryptocurrency mining gear have been reporting technical points.
Warmth sinks on the Antminer S17 and T17 rigs have been falling off, inflicting the machines to quick out. As well as, customers have reported issues with the ability provide followers on the S17.
Each items of apparatus are designed to control the warmth generated by the mining gear. Consequently, almost a 3rd have been shorted out by the reported issues.
#Bitmain clients report that Antminer S17/T17’s have a 20-30% failure charge (usually 5%). Warmth sinks are falling off and shorting out machines, whereas energy provide followers are failing. Jihan is begging clients to offer the S19 an opportunity & blames every part on Micree. #BitcoinMining pic.twitter.com/PeAsTkp2ck
— Samson Mow (@Excellion) April 26, 2020
As Mow factors out, Chief Government Officer (CEO) Jihan Wu is blaming fellow Bitmain co-founder Micree Zhan for the failures. Wu ousted Zhan from the corporate in October 2019 “to avoid wasting this ship [from sinking].”
Mining competitors earlier than BTC halving
Mow’s tweet comes a mere 15 days earlier than the anticipated Bitcoin halving, with each cryptocurrency mining producers MicroBT and Bitmain in stiff competitors. Nonetheless, provide chain disruptions on account of COVID-19 have left many within the crypto neighborhood anticipating delays in mining gear.
Bitmain efficiently bought out their up to date S19 Antminer Professional with a hash charge of 110 terahashes per second (TH/s) on March 23, however later introduced the models wouldn’t be shipped till Could 11 on the earliest, simply sooner or later earlier than the halving. Many have speculated that Bitmain selected this date in order that it might mine utilizing its next-generation ASICs with out competitors earlier than the following fork happens.
MicroBT, alternatively, reported their flagship MS30S++ mannequin from the M30 sequence of Bitcoin miners would have a hash charge of 112 TH/s. The mining producer has stated the {hardware} can be able to ship in June.