I just bought 11 more S7 B12. Although, I do believe that there will soon be another more efficient model coming out. BITMAIN usually comes out with a hybrid first, then sells used ones, then releases a new model. I am not expecting this same trend this time.
What are your thoughts?
I think they will continue to aggressively lower prices to get as many of these units out the door as possible and will not even consider selling another more efficient miner until something concrete is released using BitFury chips. Once you see them selling large numbers of used S7's (my last "new" batch 11 miner was obviously heavily used), you know they are populating their centers with the new miners. I believe (perhaps wrongly) they already have prototypes of a 16nm chip running, which by my estimate means we will see a new miner from Bitmain using 16nm tech around early June. I do not believe we will see a S7+ as the S5+ is viewed by Bitmain employees as a spectacular failure.
All of this is just baseless speculation by the way.
I see a batch 13 at under 600 usd for sure. And I do not see an s-7+.
I do not know if they will do a batch 14.