Antminer S9

With the mailman gone and your front door locked, you turn around to face up the nondescript brown cardboard box on your kitchen countertop. It houses your personal gateway to the heart of the bitcoin mining industry: your new Antminer S9i. What practice you lot do at present?

  1. Hook your S9i upward to your router and your power supply unit (PSU).
  2. Connect the latter to an outlet (220v or 110v – see below for details)
  3. Catch the IP of your S9i
  4. Admission your Antminer's web interface
  5. Set your mining pool
  6. Mine bitcoin

You want to fix it up every bit presently as possible. The smaller and fifty-fifty less impressive-looking box next to your S9i, the one containing your APW3++ power supply unit, ways that you lot take all it takes to accomplish merely that.

Coin with bitcoin symbol on a circuit board.

Hardware Connections

You need to connect your Antminer S9i bitcoin miner to your power supply unit of measurement and to your router.

  • Your APW3++ has 10 PCI ability connectors. You volition need them all. Each of the 3 hashing boards of your S9 requires 3 such connectors. That's 3X3=9. The tenth plugs into the control lath of the S9. All these connectors are highly visible. Connect them in no specific guild.
  • The APW3++ works best with a 220v outlet. With a 110v circuit, you will take to employ an EVGA 1600 power supply.
  • Employ a standard Ethernet cable to connect your S9 to your router. There'south an Ethernet connector on the front of your S9. It is the just one so you lot cannot mix it upward. Plug the other end into ane of the LAN connectors of your router.
  • Use a standard 3-pivot PC ability cablevision to connect your APW3++ or EVGA supply unit of measurement to the outlet. As before long as you lot do that, your S3 volition fire upwards. Your S3 behaves like another PC or router/switch on your network.

Software Setup

The S9 comes with an like shooting fish in a barrel-to-use web interface. To access it, you demand to identify the IP of your Antminer.

  • Log into your router and take a look at its listing of continued devices. You can also employ a free network scanning tool, such as IPReporter (simply any other will practice). If you cannot get an IP reading, press the "IP Report" button located adjacent to the Ethernet connector of your S9.
  • Once you lot have the IP (its format is 192.168.xx.twenty), type it into the URL field of your browser (where you commonly type the spider web addresses you want to access). The S9 will prompt y'all for a user name/countersign. Utilise root/root – the default user name/password of all S9 miners.
  • The web interface presents you with 4 tabs: System, Miner Configuration, Miner Status, Network.
  • Click Miner Configuration and enter your Pool URL, Worker name, and password. (Where do y'all get this data?Go to a mining pool, such as Bitcoin.com and create an account there. Log into your account and bank check on the right, under "Start Mining". Your user name is your worker proper name, and the stratum URL (BTC) is your mining URL. Your password can be annihilation, as long as it is not bare. You lot tin configure up to 3 such mining pools. If the first ane fails, the miner jumps into the second one, and and then on.)
  • Click "Save and Apply" in the lesser right corner. Check the Miner Status tab to see how your S9 hashes abroad!

Why would y'all opt for the S9 though? With the brand new S17 out, the venerable S9 nonetheless has its place on mining racks. Its price per TH (terahash) is meliorate than that of the S17. If you take access to inexpensive electricity, it is still a cracking option, though the S17 is more efficient consumption-wise.

Please annotation that mining profitability depends upon many factors, like the ultra-volatile bitcoin price.

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