The launch of Bitmain's Antminer E3 has sparked a love-hate relationship between global miners and Bitmain

As the world's leading mining machine manufacturer, every time Bitmain launches a new product, it is like a bomb thrown into the sea, which will inevitably cause huge waves.

On April 3, 2018, at 22:00 Beijing time, Bitmain officially launched the Ethereum ASIC mining machine, the Antminer E3. It is not the Antminer F3 that was previously popular on the Internet, but it did not disappoint global buyers who have been waiting for a long time. The Antminer E3 launched this time has the most powerful performance in the history of Ethereum mining, but the price is extremely affordable.

The specific parameters are as follows:

Model: Antminer E3 (Batch 1, shipped from July 16 to 31)

Algorithm: Ethash

Wall power consumption: 800W

Theoretical hashrate: 180MH/s (conservative estimate)

Weight: 13KG

Price: 800 USD (equivalent to RMB 5030.24)

Compared with the previous Ethereum GPU mining machine, we use the table to compare:

Although this "money printing machine" has the same computing power as previous models, it has lower power consumption, more stable performance, and is cheaper, and the launch of this machine has excited countless buyers.

Although this batch of Antminer E3 is only sold in overseas markets outside of mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, and the policy of limiting the purchase of one unit per user is implemented, the official website showed that it was sold out within five minutes of the launch last night. The attention paid to this sale on various overseas forums is quite hot.

(Ant E3 mining machine) 13 kg, filled with tears of graphics card mining machine

Much higher than my equipment! 5 1070GTX equipment 570 watts, the computing power is only 157m

800 USD for 180m! Holy crap! The hashrate is four times that of my 1080ti graphics card! And this is a conservative calculation, it is probably higher!

In my country, my mining equipment with 6 RX580 graphics cards cost me 2400 USD, which is 3 times less than the 800 USD at E3!

Miners all have a little account book in their minds. Everyone knows that the price is so cheap and the performance is excellent, but they are also worried about the fact that the goods can only be shipped in July.

If the delivery wasn't so late, I would really like to buy one!

In addition, some people are calling for Ethereum to fork to resist the problems that may be caused by ASIC mining machines, such as increased difficulty or mining centralization. However, everyone has different opinions on whether to fork or not.

You can certainly change the computing power through hard forks, but new ASIC mining machines may be developed in 2 to 3 months. Isn’t constant hard forking an act contrary to decentralization?

The fact is, once a currency’s market share is large enough, ASIC mining machines are inevitable.

There are many objections to the continuous release of Bitmain's ASIC mining machines, but another view is that people are willing to mine, and Bitmain is just an equipment provider. Technology must continue to improve. He believes that it is good for Ethereum miners to use the best equipment!

In short, consumers around the world have different views on the launch of new products. Some are eager to buy them, some are calm and objective, and some are dismissive. Isn't this what all technological progress must go through?

What do you think, miners?

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