Where to buy an ASIC miner in 2026: manufacturers, resellers, and who you can actually pay

*Last updated: 27 August 2026*

Disclaimer. POOL BTC does not sell hardware and is not affiliated with any vendor named below. We have no referral arrangements with them. This is a review of publicly available information collected on 27 August 2026. Terms, warranties and stock change constantly, so verify everything on the vendor's own site before you send money.

TL;DR

• Lowest risk for new machines, if you can live with lead times: order straight from the manufacturer. Bitmain (shop.bitmain.com), MicroBT / Whatsminer and Canaan / Avalon (shop.canaan.io) all run live catalogs.

• The catch with manufacturers is volume and waiting. A third-party procurement guide (raxmining.com, 17 July 2026) says Bitmain's competitive pricing usually starts around 50-100 units, with 60-90 day backlogs during demand spikes. That is the guide's description of the market, not a quote from Bitmain's own terms.
• Global resellers are faster and take small orders, but their track records differ sharply. ASIC Marketplace has a strong Trustpilot score and an "all sales final" policy. CryptoMinerBros has glowing reviews sitting next to documented complaints.
• Kaboomracks is its own category. On Bitcointalk, buyers with six-figure purchase histories vouch for the operator, and in that same thread another poster claims to be suing him over 300 undelivered units. The dispute is unresolved. Treat it that way.
• For Russian and CIS vendors we found no independent review coverage at all. Everything known about them comes from their own websites.
• No prices here, on purpose. They move weekly, and any figure would be stale before you finished reading.

[IMAGE: bright daytime shot outside an open warehouse door, a pallet of new ASIC miners in factory boxes, green trees and grass nearby, strong sunlight, light tones]

Vendor comparison table

Where is the safest place to buy an ASIC miner?

Straight from the manufacturer. Bitmain, MicroBT and Canaan sell through their own stores with live catalogs, back the machines with a factory warranty, and cut the reseller chain out entirely. You pay for that in lead time and order size: procurement guides describe large minimum batches at Bitmain and long queues when demand spikes. If you need one or two units this week, you are going to a reseller and taking the risk yourself.

Official manufacturers

Bitmain (Antminer)

The catalog at shop.bitmain.com is live, checked 27 August 2026. Past that point everything comes from third parties. The raxmining.com guide dated 17 July 2026 describes typical direct purchasing as batches of 50-100 units for competitive pricing, payment in crypto or by wire, shipping out of Hong Kong or Malaysia with customs and duties on the buyer, and 60-90 day backlogs during demand spikes. We did not verify any of that against Bitmain's own published terms, so read it as a description of the market rather than an offer.

One detail people forget: the factory warranty is non-transferable. Buy a machine from a middleman who sourced it from Bitmain, and Bitmain's warranty is no longer yours.

MicroBT / Whatsminer

Here we have to be honest about not knowing. Two branded storefronts surfaced, shop.whatsminer.com and microbtwhatsminer.com. Both show current model catalogs spanning M50 through M79S-class devices. Which one is MicroBT's canonical store, whether both are legitimate regional fronts, and how they relate to each other, we could not establish from search results. That is not an accusation. It is also not a closed question: email MicroBT and ask them to confirm the domain before you wire anything.

The same raxmining.com guide states MicroBT has expanded its US presence with domestic warehousing, cutting lead times and customs friction for qualifying orders. Third-party claim, not checked against MicroBT's own copy.

Canaan / Avalon

The shop.canaan.io store is live with visible prices on category pages and some SKUs marked "CN Stock". Canaan trades on Nasdaq under CAN, and the procurement guide notes the public-company status simplifies things for institutional buyers: filings exist, a legal entity exists, there is somebody to hold accountable. The same guide observes that Canaan's SHA-256 ASICs have historically trailed Bitmain and MicroBT on efficiency. That is the guide's assessment, not ours.

If your open question is which model rather than which vendor, work from the miner profitability ranking, where models are compared on current returns instead of marketing copy.

Global resellers

ASIC Marketplace

Hong Kong company, ships to 90+ countries, sells both new and used units, and partners with (rather than manufactures for) Bitmain, Whatsminer, Jasminer, Goldshell and DragonBall. BitDegree counted more than 200 SKUs at review time. Payment in crypto and traditional fiat methods.

The ratings look excellent: 4.8 out of 5 across 427 Trustpilot reviews (snapshot dated 10 January 2026), 4.78 out of 5 across 100 Worthepenny reviews with 97% recommending, plus a "Trusted vendor" tag in the asicminervalue.com directory.

Now the caveat, which is the part worth reading past the score. The store's policy is "all sales final": once an order is placed there are no cancellations and no returns. Warranty coverage is manufacturer-only, 6 to 12 months depending on brand, with nothing backed by the vendor itself. There is no buyback or trade-in program and no spare parts catalog. And in that same Trustpilot snapshot sits a detailed review from a buyer refused a refund on units that both the store and the manufacturer confirmed were faulty, with the vendor citing "all sales final" and offering replacement parts only. The policy is not decorative. It gets enforced.

CryptoMinerBros

Also Hong Kong, shipping worldwide via DHL. Review sites (BitDegree, coinspot.io) report parcels commonly arriving in about a week even to the US, but that is a description of typical customer experience, not a published SLA. Payment in crypto (BTC, ETH, DOGE, USDC and others) and direct bank or IBAN wire. Whether used units sit alongside new ones is not clearly stated in the sources we found.

The reputation is genuinely mixed, and dressing it up either way would be dishonest. Trustpilot NZ (snapshot dated 24 December 2025) carries plenty of strong positive reviews praising fast shipping to Australia and New Zealand and responsive support. The same page carries a detailed one-star review alleging months of shipping delay plus being charged freight twice, once prepaid and again on delivery, with a vendor reply blaming missing receiver details from the buyer.

Separately, VoskCoin (21 January 2025) reports the vendor does not offer direct refunds or returns "unless explicitly agreed upon", relies on manufacturer product warranties, and flags that crypto payments are non-refundable. That same article reports several customers with long shipping delays and warranty claim problems. Net: not a scam label, but not a clean pass either. Paying in crypto here means deliberately giving up your last piece of leverage.

Kaboomracks

The most disputed entry on this list, and we are not going to smooth it over.

On one side, the vouches are strong. In the Bitcointalk thread "Is kaboomracks a legit reseller of used mining hardware?", one buyer describes physically inspecting inventory at the company's facility and vouches for the seller. Another, a long-time customer, claims more than $100,000 in cumulative transactions and says the operator (named in the thread as Robert Van Kirk) provides a seller's warranty and accepts escrow. Scam-Detector's automated score gives 64.5 out of 100 with a "known, vetted, low risk" tag, but that snapshot is dated 25 July 2021, which on this market is ancient.

On the other side, the very same thread contains an explicit fraud allegation. A poster claims to be suing the operator in Texas over a 300-unit order paid for in April and never delivered, and mentions other buyers with similar unresolved claims. We found no court record, no resolution, no independent confirmation. The allegation stays one-sided and unresolved.

Plus a smaller inconsistency that still nags: the company's LinkedIn page (dated 20 May 2024) lists headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona, while a third-party comparison from 15 July 2026 calls the company Texas-based. We could not reconcile the two.

The honest conclusion: Kaboomracks is neither a verified vendor nor a proven scam. It is a seller with real satisfied customers and a real unresolved accusation. If you deal with them, use escrow, and only for an amount you can survive losing.

D-Central Technologies

A Canadian shop in Laval, near Montreal, operating since 2016. They sell new, used and refurbished units plus their own custom builds (Slim, Pivotal and Loki editions) and open-source hardware from the Bitaxe and NerdAxe family. Payment in Bitcoin and major credit cards. They ship from Canada and market heavily on Canadian buyers avoiding customs surprises from overseas resellers, though they ship worldwide too.

What separates them from a typical reseller is the in-house repair lab doing component-level hashboard and control-board work rather than pass-through manufacturer RMA. The site states DOA and defect protection. Their reviews page says reviews are pulled automatically from verified purchases, are not solicited or written by the company, are not paid for, and that rough edges are not hidden. That is their stated policy. We did not audit it.

MiningStore

US company owning and operating 62.5 MW of hosting capacity across 11 Iowa facilities. They sell new and used Antminer, WhatsMiner and SealMiner units, with a bulk-order desk promising a quote within 24 hours. Every unit is stated to be powered on and hash-tested before it ships. They deliver to the buyer's site or rack the machines directly at their own Iowa facilities.

One caveat. The comparison page where MiningStore comes out ahead of Blockware Solutions, Kaboomracks and Compass Mining lives on MiningStore's own domain. That is vendor marketing, not independent research, and should be read as such. The general buyer due-diligence advice on that page is useful and we use it below. Its conclusions about who is better, we do not.

If you are weighing "buy it and host it somewhere else", compare terms in the ASIC hosting guide, which breaks down rates and locations.

Should you buy a used ASIC?

Yes, if you know what you are buying and the seller tests before shipping. Used units are sold by ASIC Marketplace, D-Central, MiningStore, Kaboomracks and several Russian storefronts. The key difference from new: manufacturer warranty generally does not transfer on resale, so all your protection comes down to whatever the seller puts in writing. Get a written DOA policy before you pay.

Vendors in Russia and the CIS

This part requires some uncomfortable honesty. We searched for independent reviews of Russian and CIS ASIC sellers and found nothing: no Trustpilot presence, no forum breakdowns, no English-language review coverage. Everything below comes from the companies' own websites and has not been cross-checked against any independent source. That is not an accusation, it is the level of information available.

• Miner World (miner-world.ru). Moscow. Sells new and used Antminer, Whatsminer, IceRiver and Goldshell. States it runs its own Moscow service center, bench-tests units before shipment, and buys back old ASICs against new purchases. Cites 261 reviews and a 5.0 rating on Yandex Maps, which is their own page and which we did not verify. Delivery via freight carriers across Russia, courier within Moscow, pickup from the office.
• Interhash (interhash.ru). Moscow, with a registered legal entity (ООО «Интерхеш») in the site footer. States delivery across Russia and CIS countries, customs paperwork handling, a 1-year warranty, and financial leasing as a payment option. No independent reviews found.
• R7miner (r7miner.com). States it has operated since 2017 serving B2B and private clients, with its own data centers totalling 33 MW for hosting purchased hardware. No independent reviews found.
• Cluster Mining (cluster-mining.com). We found a Whatsminer catalog page. No company background, terms or reviews located in this pass.
• Intelion Data Systems (intelionmine.ru). Antminer catalog, states delivery across Russia and the CIS. No independent reviews found.

The practical takeaway: a registered legal entity in the footer (as with Interhash) at least gives you somebody to file a claim against, which an anonymous Telegram seller does not. That is not a guarantee. It is the difference between having a counterparty and having none.

[IMAGE: sunny day, a person in a work t-shirt unboxing an ASIC on a wooden table in a backyard, filming the process on a phone, greenery and bright sky around]

How not to get scammed: a pre-payment checklist

1. Request serial numbers before you send money. This is the first thing procurement material recommends, and it lets you contact the manufacturer to check the status of those specific units, including whether they are already registered to somebody else's warranty.
2. Insist on a written DOA policy. Not a verbal "we'll sort it out". MiningStore's comparison page cites 48-72 hours to report dead units as an industry norm, but that is a description of the market, not anybody's personal guarantee. Your window needs to be in your invoice or contract.
3. Use escrow or deal with a real business entity. Not an anonymous Telegram seller. Escrow shows up as a working practice even inside the disputed Kaboomracks history: the buyers who went through escrow describe normal transactions.
4. Film the unboxing in one unbroken take. From sealed box to power-on. No cuts. Without it you will not win a dispute over shipping damage or a short shipment.
5. Remember crypto payments are irreversible. The VoskCoin review flags this explicitly for CryptoMinerBros. Paying in crypto saves you fees and removes your last piece of leverage over the seller.
6. Check whose warranty it is. Manufacturer warranty and seller warranty are not the same thing. ASIC Marketplace, for example, hands you to the manufacturer and backs nothing itself. Ask directly who you will be emailing when a hashboard dies in month three.
7. Read the return policy before ordering, not after. "All sales final" means exactly what it says, and it gets enforced even when both sides agree the units are faulty.
8. Verify the domain if you are buying "from the manufacturer". The two MicroBT storefronts show that an official-looking domain is not always unambiguous. Email the manufacturer and ask them to confirm the store address.
9. With unfamiliar direct suppliers that have no independent reviews, verify the serial numbers with the manufacturer before paying in full. If nothing exists online about a company except its own website, confirming specific units with the factory is the only check available to you.

What to do right after the purchase

The machine arrives, the unboxing is on video, the serials match. Next comes configuration and pool selection, where a mistake costs real money in the first week. The practical sequence is covered in the guide to connecting an ASIC to a pool: stratum URL, worker name, password and the usual traps.

Pick a pool on actual payouts, not on homepage promises. A recent comparison of what different pools return on identical hashrate is in the August 2026 Bitcoin pool comparison.

And one sober check before buying at all: work out whether your chosen model clears your electricity price. The breakdown of how much of the current fleet runs at a loss is in the article on ASICs that do not pay for themselves.

FAQ

Can you buy a single ASIC directly from Bitmain?

The shop.bitmain.com catalog is open for retail orders. But a third-party procurement guide describes Bitmain's competitive pricing as typically starting at 50-100 unit batches, with 60-90 day backlogs during demand spikes. For a single machine a reseller is usually faster, though riskier. We did not verify those volume terms against Bitmain's own published conditions.

What does "all sales final" mean at ASIC Marketplace?

That once an order is placed there are no cancellations and no refunds. The 10 January 2026 Trustpilot snapshot contains a review from a buyer refused a refund on units confirmed faulty by both the store and the manufacturer, with the vendor citing exactly that clause and offering only replacement parts. Warranty coverage is manufacturer-only, 6 to 12 months by brand.

Is Kaboomracks a scam or not?

There is no answer, and anyone giving you a firm one is reading half the sources. On Bitcointalk, long-time buyers vouch for the seller, describe escrow and a seller's warranty, and one claims over $100,000 in cumulative purchases. In that same thread another poster claims to be suing the operator in Texas over an undelivered 300-unit order. The dispute is unresolved and we found no court documentation either way.

Can you trust Russian ASIC vendors?

We do not know, and that is the honest answer. For Miner World, Interhash, R7miner, Cluster Mining and Intelion Data Systems we could not find independent reviews, forum threads or any review-site coverage. Everything known about them, including stated warranties and ratings, is written by the companies themselves. Check for a registered legal entity, insist on a contract, and do not pay 100% upfront.

*Data collected 27 August 2026 from public sources: vendor websites, Trustpilot, Bitcointalk and third-party review sites. POOL BTC does not sell hardware and receives no commission from any company listed. Verify current terms with the vendor.*