Understanding the Mobile Mine ANTBOX in One Article

In order to meet the needs of global miners for mobile, low-power mining farms, improve the convenience of mining and shorten the time of mining farm construction, Bitmain has spent a year to create and launch the mobile mining farm ANTBOX. This is Bitmain’s latest independently developed mobile mining farm, which can accommodate up to 324 S9i mining machines, and can be adapted to T9+, L3+, V9 and other Antminer models.

As Bitmain's first mobile mining farm for global miners, what is the secret behind it? Let's take a look today.

ANTBOX Technical Parameters

First, let’s understand the mobile mining farm ANTBOX from the basic parameters such as appearance. As the first mobile mining farm launched by Bitmain, ANTBOX has put a lot of effort in appearance design, box capacity, operating system and other aspects.

Maximum capacity: 324 S9i units (APW7 power supply required)

Box weight: about 3 tons

Internal dimensions: 5640*2110*2765mm (L*W*H)

External dimensions: 5850*2300*3070mm (L*W*H)

Current: 731A

Voltage: 380V

Power: 486KW

Integrated mine solution greatly reduces costs

ANTBOX was born for innovation and creation, and its design inspiration comes from containers. The ANTBOX R&D team uses the solid and stable appearance and large space capacity of containers, combined with mining scenarios, to launch high-computing-power, low-power mobile mines for miners around the world. ANTBOX provides a comprehensive, integrated mining solution that greatly reduces the costs of miners.

The ANTBOX box weighs about 3 tons, and miners can flexibly transfer it using a 5-ton forklift. Before using ANTBOX for mining, miners must also do ground hardening work in advance to ensure a stable environment during the mining process. According to scientific tests by the ANTBOX R&D team, the ground where the ANTBOX is located needs to be hardened with a load of more than 1 ton per square meter. Generally, a single ANTBOX needs to complete 6 tons of ground hardening work.

Although some preliminary preparations are needed, the birth of ANTBOX saves miners from a series of time-consuming and labor-intensive communication work such as land application, land construction, and plant construction. In comparison, purchasing ANTBOX can save nearly 80% of time. Taking the mining needs of a Sichuan miner as an example, it takes up to 8 days to place an order for ANTBOX from Bitmain, from order payment, order confirmation, preparation for shipment, product transportation to product assembly and commissioning.

As mentioned above, building a traditional mine, after going through various construction processes, ultimately consumes the time cost that miners need most, which takes about 60 days. In the difference of more than 50 days, if miners use 300 14T S9i mining machines for mining, they will produce about 8,367.28 yuan per day. After 50 days, they will have a gross profit of nearly 420,000 yuan more than other miners. (The above income is obtained under specific currency prices, mining difficulty of the entire network and other conditions. The data is floating. This profit is for reference only. The actual income is generated according to the different usage time and different environments of the miners. The calculation formula is: Profit = number of mining machines per day * 300 * 50 days * BTC price at the time of posting)

In addition to reducing construction costs and time costs, the ANTBOX integrated mining farm solution also helps miners to mine scientifically and reduce additional costs. For example, the electric shutters designed by ANTBOX can be adjusted according to different weather conditions to ensure the cold and heat isolation inside the box, without the need to install a noisy and power-hungry exhaust fan.

This is because the exhaust fan is usually installed near the mining machine, but its exhaust effect will not be doubled. Instead, the high power consumption of the exhaust fan will increase the cost of the miners. The design of the electric shutter does not add any additional cost, but uses the physical principle of heat and cold isolation to naturally exhaust more hot air.

The simple operating system comes from the in-depth research of the R&D team

After a preliminary understanding of the appearance design of ANTBOX, let’s now interpret the hardware functions of ANTBOX.

The hardware design of ANTBOX includes temperature control module, power distribution module, rack module and operation and maintenance module. In addition to the electric shutters mentioned above, the temperature control module also has a custom water curtain. According to multiple experimental tests, the installation of the water curtain can reduce the temperature of ANTBOX by at least 10°, further optimizing the working environment of the mining machine.

The second power distribution module is mainly composed of a power distribution cabinet, on which the operation panel has switch settings such as shutter buttons, air switches, and shelf ABC main switches. Considering the multi-scenario use of ANTBOX, engineers used air switches and lightning protection switches in safety settings; they also matched the main switches of ABC shelves one by one to scientifically and rationally distribute electricity.

ANTBOX's rack module consists of 3 groups of racks, each with 9 layers and 12 slots on each layer, which can hold 324 S9i units. It is also compatible with various mining machines such as V9, L3+, and T9+. Each slot on the rack is equipped with a network cable interface and a power cord, which are neatly arranged in different slots and labeled with corresponding numbers. When connecting and disconnecting the machine, miners can connect the mining machine by matching the numbers one by one, which is very convenient. At the same time, this design makes it easier for miners to manage the mining machine in a scientific and standardized manner. If a mining machine fails, miners can check it in time, which greatly improves the operation efficiency of the mine.

Mobile mining is one step ahead

As Bitmain's first mobile mining farm for miners, ANTBOX solves the biggest pain point for miners, which is to quickly integrate the mining machine resources on hand, quickly deploy, and use the mobile mining farm to mine earlier, so as to gain more time to gain benefits. According to repeated tests by the ANTBOX team, compared with traditional mining farms, buying ANTBOX can at least increase the time for mining by nearly half.

In addition, the mobile mining farm ANTBOX can also help miners resist the influence of multiple external factors. For example, when the electricity bills of the mining farm increase, the cost of mining machine hosting increases, or when the industry policies are tightened, ANTBOX can be easily transferred to other places with favorable conditions, or ANTBOX can be directly resold second-hand to solve the urgent needs at hand.

I was so excited after reading this, how can I buy ANTBOX?

It is actually very simple to buy ANTBOX. Click the "read original text" button below the article to directly enter the official website to register a personal account and then place an order to buy ANTBOX. Please do not forget to upload the payment receipt during the order process.

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