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Re: [ANN] Sfards: SF100－the first 28nm Dual-Mode Miner gets into mass production
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kingcolex
on 01/08/2015, 04:28:20 UTC
Quote from: philipma1957 on August 01, 2015, 03:37:55 AM
Quote from: Searing on August 01, 2015, 02:30:28 AM
Quote from: philipma1957 on July 31, 2015, 11:38:43 AM
Quote from: TheRealSteve on July 31, 2015, 10:35:59 AM
Quote from: Philipma1957onvacation on July 31, 2015, 04:22:43 AM
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.
The reasons for the price dropping aside, the fact that the price dropped over time at all is a good thing, surely?  There's another thread where people are complaining about gear's pricing not going down (or even going up) Smiley

When the gridseed blades came out we had the second factor 'Josh of paycoin'  So the scrypt market had so much manipulation on so many levels I can't tell you that gridseeds choice to continually and quickly drop blade prices was the single factor that crashed scrypt.

I can say price wars combined with pretend mining By Josh/paycoin/GAW crashed scrypt.

But when spondoolies and bitmaintech had the sp20 s-5 price war btc went from 400 to 180 usd.   So I would say flooding the market with good cheap gear has its risks and can drop price.


@ searing    yeah you are basically correct   and I should just leave this thread alone. But besides my mining addiction  I have a blog post addiction.

I think I made 20,000 posts on

parts-express
anandtech
macrumers
123macmini
BFL forum - I was second only to josh before they banned me
Madisound
gaw's forum
and of course here.

When I look at the list above I think I made more then 25,000 posts. I have been posting on forums for 10 plus years.



Hey whatever I said it was not a 'slam' at all....just trying to figure this out in some kinda context that makes sense...right now it is the only way I can see
this whole SFARDS launch in any kind of context ..in my own mind anyway...of making some kinda sense on what they are doing launch/product and otherwise

but yeah I get your point on too many posts...I have too much time at work (work nites) so have lots of time to scan bitcointalk Smiley



yeah I am now retired 58 years old and a lot of time on my hands.  no gear to play with so I post.  Rather post about new gear that I am testing but at 1999 from zoomhash thats is a no go for me.  The chances for new gear are

avalon 4 mini----------------no reply to my latest email
sFards -----------------------cost is too high
sidehack's usb stick of which I have 2
bitmaintech s-5++ or s-7 which is who the fuck knows.

I don't bother with much in house gear in the summer. So I post.

I run the difficulty thread in spec and answer questions in support.  Not much else to do.
I have a similar pattern to you and am waiting on the new S series but instead of not bother with in house gear during the summer I am trying a summer rig set up, it pretty much comprises of 4X 750 ti's per mobo in a stand pc case.