The sharp rise of Bitcoin has made many people see the investment opportunity of cryptocurrency. and have joined them in cryptocurrency investment. Of course, some people concerned about mining may notice the Antminer S9 that everyone has been paying attention to before. It can continue to mining and generate revenue.
Of course, according to the data of the mining pool, the electricity fee of $0.0525 for mining still has certain benefits, and the price of this electricity fee is indeed relatively high. However, if the miner in Iran, Kyrgyzstan, and other Central Asian regions, then Electricity prices may be lower and revenues will be higher.
S9’s survival to the present is indeed a miracle of mining. But, of course, analyzing the reasons for S9’s survival, we also found many interesting things.
1. Antminer S9 has stable performance, easy to modify and maintain.
Stable performance is the essential feature of the Antminer S9. The mining industry often has harsh conditions. Some are in the desert with a lot of dust, and some are near hydropower stations with high humidity. This will affect the life of the miner. The Antminer S9 is simple in structure. The hash rate is relatively small, so the stability is better, so it’s amazing to survive until now.
In recent years, with the pursuit of power consumption ratio by miner manufacturers, the main feature of a large number of newly produced miners is the increase in hash boards. As a result, the previous 13T Antminer S9 is relatively weak. And now miner with seventy to eighty or more than one hundred terabytes of hash rate, and compact design, on the one hand, because of the space of the mine, on the other hand, to reduce costs and power consumption.
Let’s take a simple example. Under the same power consumption ratio, a 26T miner will inevitably be cheaper than two 13T miners because the miner has hash boards, a shell, a heat dissipation device, and a control board, fans, etc., reflected in the price.
Because of the Antminer S9’s hash board and design, the circuit is relatively easier than the current miner, and the natural performance will be much more stable. At the same time, because the deployment of Antminer S9 is large, some mines have made specific optimizations for Antminer S9. After optimization, the power consumption of Antminer S9 will be lower, and the natural profit will be higher. However, the new miner now has more hash rate chips, so the optimization space is relatively small. So, naturally, for those who toss it, the willingness is much less.
The Antminer S9 series of miners on sale by Zeus Mining include S9, S9k, S9se, and S9i. You can buy them on the Zeus website according to your needs.
2. The price increase of electronic components has led to an increase in the current price-performance ratio of Antminer S9.
Due to the new crown epidemic last year and the complex international situation, many international and domestic electronic component manufacturers have increased their prices. According to the “International Electronic Business,” in the Q3 quarter, the supply of all kinds of major electronic components was tight. This is directly Affected the current price:
The shortage of essential electronic components and semiconductors and the consumption of safety stocks have made the current production of electronic machines, including miners, likely to have an insufficient supply or higher prices. For the previous Antminer S9, because the early production has been discontinued, most of the existing stocks and second-hand sources on the market currently exist, so in this way, Antminer S9 appears to have a certain price-performance ratio.
The shortage of electronic components will cause all miners in the mining industry to have a price increase. At present, we see that the new NVIDIA graphics card market is obviously out of stock, so the difficulty of Ethereum mining has not increased significantly. This is somewhat restrained, but generally speaking, the safety stock of electronic companies is basically one month to three months. In the third quarter, the market has already shown out-of-stock behavior so that production companies can hold on for a while in the short term. So Antminer S9 will continue to shine.
In this way, before the bull market, more miners may be more or less willing to give up Antminer S9 to facilitate the startup of mining under the advantage of electricity bills, which seems to be a good way.
Enlightenment from Antminer S9 coming alive again
S9 is a typical case in the mining industry. On the one hand, it has a very long existence in the digital currency mining cycle. But, on the other hand, it dramatically influences the research and development of many miners. The simplest is Antminer S9 Can have such a long life cycle, so for miners with a power consumption ratio greater than Antminer S9, will these miners also have a long life cycle? Of course, this is also very possible.
We all know that there is a well-known Moore’s Law in the field of chips, which means that the development of semiconductors is very rapid. Still, as humans explore the manufacturing process of silicon-based chips more and more complex, Moore’s Law seems to fail NS gradually.
According to TSMC’s report, they will produce advanced 4nm chips in 2022. However, will they continue to increase at the speed of Moore’s Law after 3nm, 2nm, or even 1nm? Unfortunately, this is impossible because fundamental physics limits its development speed. Zhang Zhongmou of TSMC proposed in 2000 that they had prepared a plan to “beyond Moore’s Law,” and it hasn’t shown much to it until now. Therefore, in the next few years, semiconductor progress will become more and more difficult.
The development of the same semiconductor will naturally lead to the slowdown in the progress of all technology industries, including cryptocurrency miners, and because of the close relationship between the power consumption ratio of miners, hash rate, currency prices, etc., if we superimpose on the Bitcoin price model of PLAN B, it can be considered that the future currency price may maintain a significant degree of support, or that the life cycle of the miner will be longer, which may be a good thing for mining.
