New Viper mining machine testing, Bitmain's cloud mining service debuts

September is here, and the weather is right for mining, whether for home miners or large-scale mining farms. Especially for home miners, you can turn off the air conditioning. This week's mining review takes a look at some corners of the mining community, from new home miners that use solar energy to Bitmain's mining farms.

Alpha Technology Updates Viper Miner Update

According to Alpha's website, the S-algorithm Viper miner is almost complete. On September 2, the company's blog said that ASICs are being tested. The development team published relevant charts. The team also said that Viper is expected to be sold at the end of this month, and they are speeding up the process to ensure delivery. The company has been criticized for delays in Viper, saying earlier this summer that PayPal-related issues delayed development.

Viper’s design has changed several times during its development, a process that has been controversial in the mining community. CoinDesk will continue to monitor Viper’s development.

Bitmain’s cloud mining service debuts

Chinese mining machine manufacturer Bitmain is the latest company to offer cloud mining services. As first reported by Bitell, the company has launched Hashnest.com, a new cloud mining platform. According to the company on the btt forum, the service is part of an effort to support the centralization of the hashrate. The company said: "In the future, mining machines will be deployed in professional mining farms, and corporate and professional teams will look for lower energy and maintenance costs. However, under this trend of centralization, we still need to keep the hashrate decentralized. It is very dangerous if the hashrate of Bitcoin is in the hands of a few people."

The official website now allows users to purchase computing power with Bitcoin, and today’s price is about 0.00135 BTC/GHS, about $0.63. This is more cost-effective than other companies’ services, which cost up to $1.5/GHS.

Spondoolies Technologies Opens Pre-order for New Mining Machines

Israeli mining machine manufacturer Spondoolies will launch a new product, the SP20, which is designed to meet the trend of large-scale deployment. The company said that the SP20 has a computing power of 1.7 TH/s and a power consumption of 1,100W. Pre-orders will be accepted next week. In recent communications with CoinDesk and the company, CEO Guy Corem said that the development in the direction of data centers is beneficial to the entire industry, but the company also wants to contribute to the decentralization of computing power. He said: "We work hard for small mining. Small and powerful miners are the direction we are working towards."

A glimpse of Bitmain’s mining farm

Amateur mining logs first appeared

Large-scale mining farms are the trend in mining. We don’t often hear stories about people’s home mining anymore. However, a new amateur mining log has appeared on the BTT forum, which shows that individual mining is still active.

Forum user Sakarias posted on August 27 that he invested $1,000 to buy 10 Antminer S1 miners and different power supplies. Everyone was very enthusiastic about his amateur mining and offered suggestions to reduce his investment.

The owner of these devices said that he and his neighbors have wind power and solar power generation equipment, and often sell the excess power to the power company. Cheap electricity makes his Bitcoin mining profitable. He said: "My excess power can drive about 800 S1 mining machines. I can buy a wind turbine and I have no problem debugging it. I can vacate a room just for mining. The cooling system may be expensive, but I have already lowered the temperature to a very low level without any fans."

In the future, this enthusiast said he hopes to buy more S1s, or some S3s for mining.