Re: [lee group]419$ the sales promotion of hosted antminer S5(golden psu included)

get one price of 7000CNY(1129$), but we need wait until the middle of the august before we can get the miner....
so what are your guys thinking about this offer

I wonder what sort of drugs they have manufactured and consumed over there that has resulted in the price being so outrageously high ? Kiss any idea of profit goodbye unless you are SFards selling these things to rubes.

I mean, I understand all about recouping R&D costs, but good fucking luck at this price (unless SFards has a considerable self-mining operation)

Any new info on this? Just wondering.

Apparently you can buy one now for $1,999 USD and it's in stock somewhere (Zoomhash I think). You can also buy 4 S5s from the Lee Group for $1,676 USD at his $419 price and have 4.6TH/s instead of paying $323 more to get 1.7TH/s. Lee even throws in the PSUs. The SFards folks are completely insane!

I get that but what about the power costs of hosting? If Li could really get them for $1129 or so then it might be worth it if the power requirements pan out. If the price works out to be comparable to 3 S5s then given the BTC and LTC rates now it would make sense to get one SFards. Is my math right here?

Miner	S5	S5 * 3	SFards SHA	SFards Scrypt
Speed	1150	3450	1700	54
Power requirements	590	1770	710	200
Power cost @ .10 in $	1.42	4.26	1.68	0.48
Earnings per day in $	1.78	5.34	3.04	4.95