Re: [ANN] Spondoolies-Tech - carrier grade, data center ready mining rigs
Are you still upset about not receiving a demo miner for free? If it's not that then what's your reason for going this route? Because you can't really compare a GPU, which has all the above enumerated downsides, with what 21 inc does (low footprint, low energy, less money than a full PC+GPU, with more blockchain capabilities and so on).
I did get a demo miner for free. It was the SP20. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=897151.0
Unless you were talking about the bigger one like the SP35 (were those being given away too?) If so, then I'm jealous but I'm not upset.
Now, all-in-one consumer grade routers aren't very good. The ones that have the modem, the router, the 4-port switch and wireless access point all built in to one unit. Most of them perform below what you would get if you separated them into different physical devices. If you get one of these and stick in a bitcoin mining chip, guaranteed that device will fail and the owner or user will complain, and it won't be about the mining.
What's the hashrate of that 21 bitcoin computer? How much does that cost? Why will I buy it?
I do believe, we need some sort of mining thing, chip, or even a stand-alone unit, low energy, and a good enough hashrate and have these pushed to a million people.
That, or an affordable ASIC = meaning something below $1000 USD, and mines 1THs or something like that. So more individual people buy them.
You will still have a few rich dudes who will stuff a thousand of these into large warehouses with low or free power. And the arms race continues into smaller and faster chips.
Maybe I'm missing your point if that's not the issue. I'm not against ASICs, and you can't stop them.
*edit* well, the Bitmain S7 is now less than $500, more than 4.5 THs, so ... yeah, the point is even the mini-miners have to keep up.