Re: [ANN] Sfards: SF100－the first 28nm Dual-Mode Miner gets into mass production
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) 
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
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.
well if it is any consolation I have 2 titan(s) that will eventually be doorstops then I"m out of home mining. In anticipation i got a bitseed node v2 coming and building a ltc node
with a pi i have ...just need them flashy lights and feeling I'm doing something with the network ..also i too have 2 8gb usb sidehack units coming .probably should run them on the pi running the ltc node with the btc node just to keep all the flashy lights and such in one area (alas ....the addiction to home mining is gonna be rough on me) thus the nodes and sidehack toys.....can't go cold turkey ..just can't
on a side note I can't see getting an S7 if the pricing is anything like the last S5's i have 13c kwh electric (went up 1c the last month the fiends!)
it prob just won't make any sense at the likely price they will want ..being the only game in town and all imho. would be sooo nice if SFARDS would come thru with say a 600 buck unit..still would lose money on it..but then again..i lose money on toys all the time...but at their
current prices I could win the lottery and still would not buy one..the pricing is that bad imho