Looks like S5b7 shipping was pushed back a week, from July 29th to August 5th.
Biggest suprise reading it "[Second Hand] ANTMINER S5 BATCH 7" .... I just wonder what second hand really means.
When they ran a miner during a batch it was still described as new. Second hand... think it's coming from data centers wanting to unload whall it's still top product there?
What's everyone's guess?
im guessing its data centers that got first shot on the s7s and they had some trade in
selling the "used" s5s at full price is really shady..
That would do a good amount of gain of difficulty. Old gear goes to home user and data center got new gear, no gear comes offline.
Honestly this scenario scares the crap out of me. If they let the big customers with entire data centers sell back gear. It would make it where the hobby miner is one who is cheated.
Would also mean what ever is next the first X amount (huge amount) goes to the data centers they get these S5's from.
I just want this scenario to be wrong... but I'm afraid.
the net hash has been going up pretty steady over the last couple months.
also since people are still buying s5s its a win/win for bitmain to buy them back and sell them at full price..
it would make sense.