Transfer Your Hashie Cloud Hashrate to AMHash

29 Dec
2014

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It seems that the Hashie cloud mining website has been hacked and the website has temporary suspended operations, though what exactly has happened is not very clearly explained yet. While the operators of the service are working to resolve the issue, the main page of the website is not available, but apparently you can login to your account with limited functionality. AMHash, the cloud mining hashrate partner of Hashie, has already added the option to transfer all of your purchased AMHash cloud hashrate to their platform as alternative to waiting the normal operations at Hashie to be restored. You just need to make an account at AMHash with the same email address that you have used at Hashie and send a request to have your hashrate transferred there. You can check with your email address what was the AMHash hashrate that you had in Hashie to make sure that you set the correct amount in your application, according to the information the process for the transfer should take up to 24 hours. Unfortunately there is still no solution available for the Generation 1 hashrate that the Hashie service was offering before they have added the AMHash hashrate. We are hopefully soon going to see a solution for that as well, either another option to transfer Gen1 hashrate or Hashie restoring their normal operation again.

– To send your Hashie to AMHash Transfer request to AMHash, registration is required…

ZeusHash Scrypt Cloud Mining Situation Still Not Good

27 Dec
2014

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We have apparently reached the 10 consecutive day moment with the mined Litecoins being lower than what the maintenance fee for the Scrypt hashrate at the ZeusHash cloud mining service. The 10 day period has been extended with extra 5 days to see if the negative trend will chance, though this currently seems not very likely to happen with the exchange rate of LTC still going down even though the network difficulty is fluctuating. After the extra 5 days end unless we see some improvement and the Scrypt cloud hashrate starts making profit again the mining hashrate will be taken offline, but the MHS that have been purchased will remain in the user’s accounts and the mining might be resumed again next year if SCrypt cloud mining becomes profitable again. Below is the quote of the announcement that ZeusHash has sent to the users of the service regarding the situation:

Dear miners, we are sorry to inform you the daily payouts of your MHS contracts have been lower than maintenance fees for 10 consecutive days. As we negotiated with our partners, we will wait for another 5 days to see if there’s any change in the current situation. If it continues for another 5 days, we have to shut down all the miners. But we won’t cancel your accounts and your MHS will be freezed there. We will try to introduce more advanced miners and MHS contracts in the coming New Year for more of your profits.

BitMain Announcing the AntMiner S5 Bitcoin ASIC Miner

25 Dec
2014

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Bitmain has announced their 3rd generation Bitcoin ASIC miner chip – the BM1384 in conjunction with its 9th product – the Antminer S5 and is getting ready to start shipping the device before the end of the year. The Antminer S5 is the successor of the S3 and the S1 before that, building and improving the design of the previous generation of miners offering higher performance with lower power consumption thanks to the new BM1384 ASIC chips. The Bitmain AntMiner S5 should offer 1155 GHS hashrate with 590 Watt power usage at the wall according to the specifications, though that value may vary based on the power supply that you may pair the miner with (power supply is not included). The first batch of the S5 ASIC miners costs $418 USD and should start shipping on December 27th, the second batch is slightly cheaper at $413 USD per unit and should start shipping on January 4th 2015 or a few days later.


BitMain AntMiner S5 Specifications:

– Hash Rate: 1155 GH/s ±5%
– Power Consumption: 590 W (at the wall)
– Power Efficiency: 0.51 J/GH (at the wall)
– Rated Voltage: 12V
– Dimensions: 298 mm x 137 mm x 155 mm
– Cooling: 1x 12038 fan
– Operating Conditions: 0 °C to 35 °C
– Certified By: FCC / CE
– Network Connection: Ethernet

What seems to be the most notable change in the latest design used by the S5 is the fact that now the miner has the aluminum heatsinks placed directly on top of the ASIC chips, unlike on the previous miners where they were on the back of the PCB and thus were not so effective. This new cooling design is supposed to provide the same cooling efficiency on the new miners that previous generation that had lower hashrate and power usage.

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