Quote from: ursa on April 12, 2013, 04:46:09 PM

Friedcat,
Do you sell bare ASICS and provide the necessary files for DIY? ( for a large order....>$100K)

I asked friedcat already and he said Asicminer wont do this because it wouldnt make sense. Asicminer can create full miners very cheap, thats their advantage. So selling the chips alone wont happen.

The only company that will chips in quantities >10000 is avalon and they now create documentary for the Asics.

Quote from: DiabloD3 on April 12, 2013, 04:47:47 PM

Quote from: SebastianJu on April 12, 2013, 04:38:22 PM

You await that you can buy a miner with 36BTC? What hashrate do you await for this? Or do you want to take part in a groupbuy? I think the miners wont be small so that most users wont have the money and have to go group buy route.

The large scale boards that friedcat has has something like 24 or 36 chips on them, and Bitcoin is already going to cross $100 again.

Yes, i know. But a big miner with 36 chips on it would have 10.8GH/s and use 90Watt. A price of 36BTC (1BTC=$100) would mean that the miner paid for itself in 54 days. I dont think that will happen when such miner is auctioned. Check the avalon-auctions on ebay... the prices are high for money machines if auctioned. And Asicminer will send out the machine in days. Its not preselling.
Thats the reason i believe that 36BTC will only be a fraction of the endprice of a auction.

The small miners... if one would pay 3BTC for it he could get the investment back in 174 days. I think its not far fetched to get such or even higher prices.

Quote from: nebulus on April 12, 2013, 09:37:02 PM

Wow, I lol'd. With 5 bucks and a trip to RadioShack I can produce you an exact replica of whatever the heck this is. Give us picture of your supposedly "real" facility where all the supposedly "real" equipment resides. This will "surely" convince us you are for real!

Asicminer doesnt have to proof that its real because they already proofed that. They have running asics. When you check at BTC Guild then its the biggest miner there. They paid out many bitcoins since. I dont see how it could be a scam.

Quote from: TradeFortress on April 12, 2013, 11:50:02 PM

The amazing thing about small products is that you can charge a lot more hashrate wise. People want a cute USB ASIC miner, and even if it's four times the price per MH as other ASIC offerings or what there will still be a lot of people who buy it.

I believe your right. The prices for such small device will be high. Because way more people can afford the smaller price because its only 300MH/s and because its simply a sweat nice thing to have. Maybe some day it gets value in its own because only some units exist... *lol* With that ill say that someone will pay more than it will be worth, only to have it.
For creating a high performance miner it wont be so good of course.

Maybe it would be best to auction some of these and some bigger miners. Im not sure if its less cost/work to put one chip into such small device or if its more effective to put 36 chips into one device. The last option has the disadvantage that the price per miner will be so high that less can afford it and bid on it. But at 10.8GH/s (36 chips) that problem is rather small.

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Quote from: Fabrizio89 on April 13, 2013, 12:27:11 PM

Seems like the news is pumping up share price. Will the new device affect dividends somehow?

if we sell them, yes...

But the monthly dividents from the 67 TH/s will be lower because all those sticks will increase the difficulty Wink

Maybe the best thing would be selling those sticks with an integrated miner mining 50% for the customer, and 50% for ASICMINER.
This way te price of the stick can be lower AND ASICMINER will profit double from it Cheesy

Its not such a big problem because miners sold by asicminer will be auctioned. That means they will get a maximum price. So its not that bad if you get the income from mining for maybe 9 months in one auction. Its not such a bad thing then anymore.