The globe'south largest manufacturer Bitcoin ASIC miners, Bitmain, has sold out its starting time round of domestic Antminer S19 sales within 24 hours of accepting orders.

On March 23, Bitmain tweeted that it opened upwardly its first phase of domestic sales for its long-await Antminer S19s — before selling out on the same solar day.

Antminer S19s volition send from March 11

The first version of the Antminer S19 will accept a hashrate of 95 terahashes per second (Th/s) and an energy efficiency of iv.5±five% joules per terahash (J/Th), while the Antminer S19 Pro boasts a hash rate of 110 Th/s and an energy efficiency of 29.five±% five J/TH. The second version of both S19s volition feature a reduced hashrate past five TH/s.

The regular S19 costs roughly $2,180 while the pro costs $ii,920. Bitmain states that international sales will be coming before long.

Customers who managed to go far on the first round tin can expect the units to arrive between May 11 and May 20.

Bitmain defendant of front end-running miners

With the Bitcoin (BTC) halving currently expected to take place on May 12, the estimated shipping dates for Bitmain's S19s have drawn the ire of the mining community.

Many of the comments in response to Bitmain'southward proclamation insinuate that the company chose the date so that it could mine using its side by side-generation ASICs without competition earlier the next fork occurs.

Jason Urgo, the CEO of social media analytics company Social Blade, posted:

"Aircraft May 11thish. Gee I wonder why you picked that appointment lol. I thought yous guys said yous didn't use them yourself first earlier shipping them? Or is information technology merely to make certain the ones y'all practise have for yous get the most out before you ship these."

A user posting under the pseudonym 'dua' sarcastically added: "They don't utilize it. They simply stress exam information technology for a 'while' for Quality assurance."

Cointelegraph reached out to Bitmain but had not received a response as of press time. This article will be updated should a response come in.