The only thing that went 10 fold on the miners is the power consumption.
Now estimated around 3,500 Watts.
Great for European buyers.
If you would receive your Viper today, you will mine $10 of Litecoins each day, costing only $25 in electricity...
Way to invest your money, Spend $9,000 to lose $15 (and rising each day) a day.
The inventor of cryptocurrencies was probably a relative of Bernard Madoff...
It looks like the power consumption only went up 80% not 10 fold. Regardless, there is no reason anyone would ever want to plug this in, not today, not ever. Especially those on tiered energy pricing like PG&E.