Is Antminer S9 good?

At an average cost of 12 cents per kWh in the USA, that’s about $3.74 in electricity costs per day per AntMiner you’re running. A calculator like the one on CryptoCompare.com calculates that you’ll make $3.63 per day in profits after these electricity costs are taken out.

Based on its technical specifications, the S9 will have the capacity to mine 0.03600399 Bitcoin per month . This figure does not factor in the cost of hardware, power, pool fees and others. If you run the Antminer for a month, expect to get a profit of 0.02138775 Bitcoin, which is equivalent to $178.78.

The Antminer S9, Then and Now When the S9 was released on Amazon in mid-2017 it came with an initial price tag of $2,100 per unit, not including shipping.

Antminer s9 is going to obsolete soon. Or you can consider it obsolete from now on…But the newest and most efficient Asic miner is Antminer s17 53 and it gives you life span of 2.5 years more or less . Generally this is true for all ASIC miners while you are going to calculate their life time in your business plan.