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Characteristics of the Antminer S9.
The development of chips for the 16 nm process technology was carried out in conditions of the strictest competition.
The battle with Bitmain mining equipment companies was lost for more than a month, although the fact that the chip development was completed was announced among the first.
At a time when Avalon, BitFury and others were actively promoting the novelty, the Antminer S9 was still being brought to the maximum price/performance ratio.
By the way, a month of work was not in vain and the team managed the impossible, namely, an increase in the energy efficiency of the chip by 2.5 times. Previously, it was not possible to overcome the double increase barrier.
Productivity increased even more (by 2.75) to 13 Tx/sec. The first batch of Antminer S9 diverged with settings that allow you to squeeze up to 14 seconds, but the risk of overheating was very high and subsequent releases came out with settings for 13 terahash.

Why is it better to mine on a pool and not individually? The answer is simple - when mining on a pool, your income will be more stable, because you will receive a certain part of the rewards of the entire pool.
There are many pools out there, and if you are new to mining, it can be quite difficult for you to choose.

In the Bitcoin network, 144 new blocks are generated every day. But there are more than 1 million BTC miners in the world, and competition is growing. Each of them wants their share of the profits, but solo miners have nothing to do in Bitcoin mining, because you have to be too lucky to take your piece of mining, so people gather in certain groups just like them.

firmware s9 is one of the popular ASICs. It differs from other types of miners in greater reliability, high maintainability and affordable price. After the device entered the market, the first firmware began to appear. They are needed in order to optimize the performance of the ASIC for your electricity price and operating conditions.

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