Quote from: ComputerGenie on March 14, 2017, 09:18:36 PM

Quote from: beltsniffer on March 14, 2017, 08:35:56 PM

.... But, you ignored the rest of what I said.

Quote from: beltsniffer on March 14, 2017, 07:55:50 PM

Since they are going to sell to us, they should at least make they attempt to give us some of what we want.

Fortunately there are other options, though not as efficient.

If they want to sell to us PITA small miners, they need to address our concerns too. Which would include the ability to adjust the miner to suit our wants/needs.

Yes, I did ignore it because it's wrong. The "PITA small miners" (your words) are a small enough market to not justify the software costs of running multiple versions of code. Any profits from "PITA small miners" become eaten up in the long run by the dev costs to do so.

I know they are my words. I was having fun with it. I don't take this stuff that seriously. And a lot of times we are a PITA. But in the end, we can all debate this until we are blue in the face, but Bitmain will do what they perceive to be in their best interest.

Quote from: ComputerGenie on March 14, 2017, 09:18:36 PM

As I said:

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If you do not want to use that enterprise product in an enterprise environment, then it's on you to create a "solution" for your non-enterprise environment, not the enterprise product manufacture.

P.S. The market is such they don't have to appeal to what you want, because they already have the product you want/need.

I still disagree with your point.

I think there are enough small miners out there that it does make a difference to Bitmain. If not, they wouldn't continue to sell to us. Take a look at just about any pool, the split between large and small miners.
Kano has about 5-6 miners over 1ph in gear with about 13ph out of his total 26
Slush has about 30 miners over 1ph with about 130ph out his 210
That's just a couple of pools, but I would be willing to bet it holds just as true on Antpool or F2Pool.

That's still a lot of gear going to smaller miners.