Quote from: steamboat on June 10, 2013, 10:42:25 PM

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Quote from: steamboat on June 10, 2013, 10:03:14 AM

Update: the heatsink design has been finalized and is currently being sourced. Solid numbers should be available this week.

The heatsink will be available for purchase as a unique part, and will include the necessary hardware to attach it to the K16.

Is the heatsink necessary, or optional? Will it be included with the fully assembled units, and included in that price?

Will the K16 boards be stackable?

Thanks.

Yes. Each K16 with the DIY kit option and up will come with the parts necessary to stack.

Quote from: professorY on June 10, 2013, 10:10:36 PM

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Quote from: rammy2k2 on June 10, 2013, 10:03:56 PM

Steamboat will email you directly when your batch is up and ask you to verify what you want done. I'm in batch 1 and we got the email already.

did u got any confirmation from him ? i sent him reply too, but no confirmation or smthg

No, but I didn't expect one yet. I assumed it was a bcc to the entire list of Batch 1 buyers and he asked only those who wanted assembly to reply as a way to separate those out. He said somewhere on here that the next email will go out this week I think, which will likely be the confirmation to those who asked for assembly with further details.

That is correct. An email will be sent asking to verify the specific assembly and hosting options.

All orders received, recorded, replied. The next few days will be busy as much of the logistical portion will be finalizing at once.

As an aside: Each person should do their own research and calculations to decide if purchasing miners is right for them. That being said, the numbers I have run are based on a very aggressive difficulty ramp up, and show the units will be unprofitable after 9-10 months. That being said, in order to maintain the exponential increase in difficulty, $26 million dollars worth of hardware would need to be introduced in month 3, $54 million in month 5, $110 million in month 7, and so on. This assumes .5btc per gh/s, and there are companies slated to produce miners at a .2.

I will repeat:

When considering a purchase, it is the responsibility of the consumer to analyze all risk factors involved, including but not limited to: costs, projected ROI, vendor reputation, and possible delays caused by unforeseen circumstances.

Anyone have any good estimates of the upcoming difficulty? Would like to do some analysis myself. I've seen allot of spreadsheets, would like to see one that takes all preorders and dates in consideration. I wonder what the roi of 128 chips will be?