If you buy these you are just doing it for love, makes no commercial sense at all.
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This is why you don't see any big orders.
If it made commercial sense I'd buy many more.
It's a novelty item mostly.
This. If this was made with commercial sense, they could distribute them in traditional channels and sell MILLIONS, while making a HUGE service to Bitcoin.
But, they may have limited production capacity and no easy access to traditional distribution channels - thus, financially this min-max strategy may have a sense for them.
Personally, I would love to see a more ambitious approach for these USB miners.