Re-enter Huaqiang North, a lot of things quietly change inadvertently.Many people are talking about the blockchain, bitcoin, calculator, hash value, mining machine ......
Is that virtual currency, bitcoin in the end how far from us?
In fact, it is you and me.
As we all know, bitcoin mainly relies on digging, and the emergence of a mining machine has taken place in the bitcoin world one after another for calculating the arms race. The threshold for mining has also been rising. In fact, 'Made in China' A few years firmly monopolize the design and production of all kinds of mining machine.However, not many people know, Shenzhen Huaqiang North has become the country and the world's largest distribution center for mining machine .Chengdu 'China Electronics First Street' Huaqiang North Street, the first anniversary, we do not talk about the flow of people have not restored, do not talk about how to transition Street, we dig from the bitcoin mining machine story, about a different Huaqiang North.
Mine machine story
The bitcoin price surge may seem exciting, and the story of miners is just as good.
Nowadays, the profit margin of small and medium-sized miners who hold a mining machine to go back home or deploy a small workshop for family mining is very limited, and the mining industry is also gradually concentrating on enterprises and teams that have low-cost electric resources and specialized deployment capabilities. However, There are many factors that affect the mining, such as the performance and power consumption of the mining machine, the calculation and difficulty of the whole network, the deployment and operation and maintenance capabilities of the mine, the availability of cheap electricity resources, and the guidance of the price and policy. It can be argued that with no miner and more and more miners, bitcoin may still only be produced by idle-time notebooks from geeks.
In the early days of bitcoin, bitcoin was very good and it could be done by ordinary computer CPU, and it could be solved automatically by just downloading the software. As the number of output blocks per day is fixed, as the price of the currency goes up, More and more people will find it harder and harder to dig coins, and as a result, the more money and power the world has, the more difficult it is for them to dig.
Bitcoin prices skyrocketing over the past year, objectively let bitcoin break through the geek circle, into the ordinary people's horizons.When most people are finally looking for bitcoin and other virtual currency, there are people who smell Sensitive, quickly capture the business opportunities behind bitcoin rise - mining machine.In a global contest of professional mining machine research and development, a large number of miners influx, a machine hard to find a machine, this dynamic game also gave birth to another Group: mining machine wholesalers.
The bit of mainland China, founded in 2013, found another business opportunity from Bitcoin boom, which designed chip of bitcoin mining machine, which is assembled into the machine and then sold to customers all over the world.Nowadays, 80% or even 90% Of the mining machines are provided by the company, the company relies on the production of mining machine, build a mining pool to grow up, has long occupied the head of bitcoin's entire network of computing power.
Looking back at 2017, the biggest surprise for the semiconductor industry was the sudden demand for bitcoin chips in the third quarter. Coincidentally, bitcoin started its own soaring journey from then on. Research report pointed out that the third quarter of TSMC's virtual currency ASIC chip revenue, 'we believe most of the bit from the mainland.'
In fact, 'Made in China' has firmly monopolized the design and production of various types of mining machines in the past few years, and the world's top three digital miner makers, Bit Continent, Jia Nan Yun Zhi and Billion State Technology, have included 90% More than the share of these three companies are founded by the Chinese.
International mine sales
Many miner's booth advertisements are printed in Chinese, English, Korean and even Arabic, showing the miner's business is very 'internationalized' here.
Re-enter the Huaqiang North, a lot of things quietly inadvertently changed.Many people are talking about the blockchain, bitcoin, calculating, hash value, mining machine ... ... They were originally selling computers, to explain Computer running speed and configuration, shops are still placed in the computer, but in fact they are selling ore machine.
'Now who also sell computers, casually asked to ask how much mining machine received less mining machine, the price is changing every day, second-hand ant mining machine S9 can still sell about 21,000 yuan.' Rain mining sales Dingyang Told reporters.
Into the Huaqiang North SEG Plaza, the reporter found the middle of a huge shopping mall impressively wrote 'Scoop rain S9, 4th floor' mining machine business in Huaqiang North is already an open secret.
'Ant miner S9 how to sell?' Reporter asked.
Salesman did not directly answer, but quickly tap the calculator on the day the price of mine machine - 24,700 yuan, which seems to have become a rule.
'We take the goods directly with the bit mainland manufacturers, the price includes the power supply, this is only the price today, because the price of mine machine every day is not the same, the volatility is also very large, usually 10 sets from.' 'Sales Tintin said.
In the entire exchange process, Tintin kept answering the phone, are to inquire about the price of the miner today, put down the phone and she continued that the ant miner S9 is currently sold out of stock in the market, and just 10 guests booked 10 Later, he let another salesman to the customer to the 10 mines sent to the designated location.In Huaqiang North field visit process, the reporter found ant miner S9 is currently the most popular market a, and Different store prices are not the same, basically maintained at 22,000 yuan to 27,000 yuan.
Reporters found that many miner's booth ads are printed in Chinese, English, Korean and even Arabic, showing mine business here is very 'international.' Weixin mining salesman Lee Beibei introduced to reporters to Huaqiang North to buy ore Machine buyers mainly from Russia, India, South Korea, Japan, etc., and in their exchanges, due to language barriers, the basic process of using a calculator in the bargain.
The Huaqiangbei business favorite is that these miners from overseas buyers, their goals are clear, and the volume of purchase is basically 100 sets from time to time, and visa time is limited, coupled with daily mining machine price fluctuations than the more Big, so once they're right, they'll finalize right away.
In short supply:
Mine earn but sell ore machine
One of the merchants on the fourth floor of SEG Plaza told reporters that while mining their own while selling mining machine, but now mining threshold high, but also earn money selling machine.
According to report, the production cost of ant miner S9 only needs about 3,000 yuan, but because the market is more and more fried miner, ant miner S9 is currently fired all the way around 30,000, still in short supply, we can see how much profit margins miner .
'How much can be basically how much to sell, we are also stockpile, in fact, a great risk, because the price of mine machine is proportional to the bitcoin price, so we have a great risk .However, the most profitable or bit Mainland China and other manufacturers, a machine at least three times more profitable, we are just brokers. If the price is good, we have guests booking 5000 a day. 'Scott Wilson Mining staff introduced to reporters.
It is worth mentioning that miners are likely to not need the traditional 'loan' financial model at all because they use the older method of paying first and then waiting a month or more to receive After inquiry, reporter learned that many mining machine manufacturers have factories in Shenzhen Shajing and other places, indicating that the majority of mining machines are also manufactured in Shenzhen.
'Basically do not have to go to the official website of the reservation, where all are booked by the agency and then hand over, everyone in the mining machine, I used to do the loan, and now do not switch to mine machine. The future trend, this thing is quite Fire. "Sage Square, one of the four floor, said to reporters, digging while selling mine machine side, but now mining threshold high, but also to sell ore machine. A mine from Inner Mongolia, the main After experiencing such madness, he handed over the old mining machine that was replaced in the mine last year and handed over the merchants in Huaqiang North. "After spending a year on a second-hand machine, it was even more expensive than the one I originally bought."
After the miner business is done, there are some new ways for the seller to start anew. Some merchants find another way to provide derivative services to attract customers, such as the mining machine hosting business, businesses find stable electricity and venues, and build mines. Buyers buy After the mining machine choose to host, after paying the custodian fee without considering other issues. Tintin told reporters: 'If you buy the mine do not want to use at home, I can introduce a friend to you, you host the mine in his mines , Hosting fee of 5 cents per kilowatt, digging out bitcoin is still considered your, or quite cost-effective.
Speaking of hosting, industry insiders told reporters that frequently thousands of mine machine room has 24-hour full-time maintenance staff, as well as air-cooled water-cooled insulation measures to ensure the continued operation of the mine. In addition to Sichuan, there are some mines Will be gathered in Inner Mongolia, but over there is the use of thermal power.Generally in the wet season, generating capacity oversupply, so the mine also help Sichuan effective use of some of the local water resources, but does not rule out the existence of illegal electricity consumption.In the dry season , The mine may relocate the extra mines to Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, etc. However, the high energy consumption and high pollution caused by the mining activities and the resulting market speculation have prompted many governments to tighten their regulatory measures.
On the other hand, due to the bitcoin's "digging up" turmoil, it also prompted miners such as BitTorns to look for a new blue ocean, while AI chips came in. BitContinental released its AI brand Sophon, Self-developed world's first tensor accelerated computing chip (TPU) - BM1680.
In the sale of this end, mining machine business depends on the face of virtual currency, but also depends on the supervision of the tight.This may also be some Huaqiang North computer business a true portrayal: Although the mining machine is already 'Made in China' and the product is very hot Pin, secretly also sell mine machines, but the computer business is still not let go ...