The world’s largest manufacturer of application-specific integrated circuits (ASIC) bitcoin miners, Bitmain Technologies, has revealed that the company is offering a discount on Antminer S19 Pro mining rigs. The 100 terahash per second (TH/s) machine sells for $19 per terahash or $1,900 per unit. Antminer mining rigs are 80% cheaper than they were five months ago as of March 28th.
Bitmain cuts S19 Pro prices down to $19 per Terahash
Amidst the crypto winter and the crypto economy’s market cap of around $927.21 billion, Bitmain Technologies has decided to sell its Antminer S19 Pro mining rigs at a discount. At the same time, the price of bitcoin (BTC) is down 5.52% in the last seven days and is currently trading below $20K per unit. The cryptocurrency network’s mining difficulty is at an all-time high, and the network’s hashrate is currently running at 223.73 exahashes per second (EH/s).
“Bitmain offers an Antiminer S19 Pro special discount for only $19/T,” Bitmain tweeted on Tuesday. “For bulk orders, please contact [a] Bitmain sales representative direct. Customers who have already purchased the S19 Pro will be eligible for coupons,” the company added.
Bitmain’s 100 TH/s technology is 80% cheaper than 5 months ago, Crypto Winter highlights ASIC buys at a ‘discount price’
Bitmain’s sale is much cheaper than Antiminer S19 Pro’s original prices. On March 29, 2022, a customer could purchase an Antiminer S19j Pro with 104 TH/s for $9,984 per unit. The 100 TH/s S19, which produces a slightly smaller hash rate than the S19j Pro, is 80.96% cheaper – at $1,900 per unit – than S19 prices five months ago. Lower prices may contribute to the massive expansion from a number of operations and Bitcoin’s skyrocketing hash rate in recent times.
This week, Nasdaq-listed and Gwyneth Paltrow-backed Terawulf (Nasdaq: WULF ) revealed that its Lake Mariner mining data center now has 12,000 mining rigs operating at the facility, and a large portion of Terawulf’s rigs are Antminer S19s. Cleanspark Inc. (Nasdaq: CLSK ) also detailed that the crypto winter has brought “unprecedented opportunities” after it purchased 1,061 ASIC mining rigs at a “discounted price.”
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Jamie Redman
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