Re: [ANN] Sfards: SF100－the first 28nm Dual-Mode Miner gets into mass production
This all goes back to sFards and how they market this item.
Remember they are the builders of the blade which came out last year at 3000 usd and dropped and dropped and dropped until they were under 200 on eBay.
I liked zoom hash and purchased 7k in blades last year total of 17 blades . I am not going to say do not buy from zoom hash or iTop I am going to say I do not like the way sFards went about introducing this to the btc ltc world.
Remember they are the builders of the blade which came out last year at 3000 usd and dropped and dropped and dropped until they were under 200 on eBay.
I liked zoom hash and purchased 7k in blades last year total of 17 blades . I am not going to say do not buy from zoom hash or iTop I am going to say I do not like the way sFards went about introducing this to the btc ltc world.
Well if the price is 1299 for these units (setting aside the min of 100 units) and we are looking at 1.7TH for BTC and 47 mh for scrypt (or in LTC's case 23.5mh in less then 30 days in actual mining power as a comparison)
to say all this is MOOT is a massive understatement..to say the least
Again imho SFARDS had NO real desire to move this miner ..it was a way to get some press and show off their new btc/ltc chip in the hope they can get IPO $$$ for their large
Farm with their own chips and/or just bulk chip sales.
Looking at it I think it is pretty obvious..they got a lot of press as the only 'toy' in town..but now that the rubber is gonna meet the road here say if they really do get these units
out in say Sept 2015...well don't much matter.....the got their 'press flash' for a month or so and moving on it will all go into background mode imho of their data hall and IPO $$$ and maybe chip sales to other large scale miners....
It WAS JUST TOO LAME TO BE ANYTHING OTHER THEN THE ABOVE IMHO ...again assuming the 1295 price was correct (we already know about the 100 min amount of units to buy them)
just saying I know squat...but I guess we will see one way or another someday