Re: Obelisk tech to release Miner for Decred with the DCR1

When you do some calcs with their specs it is almost to good to be true...

OBELISK DECRED 300GH:

https://whattomine.com/coins/152-dcr-blake-14r?utf8=%E2%9C%93&hr=300000.0&p=1000.0&fee=0.0&cost=0.1&hcost=0.0&commit=Calculate

OBELISK SIA 475GH:

https://whattomine.com/coins/161-sc-blake-2b?utf8=%E2%9C%93&hr=475000.0&p=1000.0&fee=0.0&cost=0.1&hcost=0.0&commit=Calculate

Let's assume what the "calculator says"

Decred = 3300 dollar month...
SIA = 4700 dollar month...

(I think for real, maybe half of it...)

The Obelisk miners seem to have an absolute great advantage to all people who (merged) mine Decred or Sia with their GPU right now. Not all miners who mine Ethereum or Zcash mine merged. I think it is just a small percentage because you need extra power for your GPU's it is not free, to mine merged (it costes extra)
There are also people mining with FPGA's (Ztex, Icarus, etc.) on Decred right know and if these Obelisk miner is real "real"
(I am still not sure) then we see the true switch from CPU --> GPU --> FPGA --> ASIC.
At this point Decred and or SIA will have their own ASIC and more fullgrown?? more futureproof..

I really like the DCR1, more than the SIA SC1 miner (personal) but they need to show us this is real stuff.

The thing with ASICs is that you don't get it now. You will get it when the difficulty has risen so much that you make $30 for 1500W of paper consumed. They will have so many of these mining for themselves until difficulty rises to a crazy level then they start shipping. Now you know Why there is always delays with Asic its about not shipping them out until they become close to unprofitable.

Yup you hit the nail on the head In fact looking at the current hashrates for both "Testing" has probably started and will increase until its time to ship .. or the power / income ratio doesn't make sense anymore Then everyone might get lucky and they will ship early Cheesy

You either trust this team and you buy, or you don't and you stay away. They have clearly said they won't start mining in the real network until the customers get their units. Also they have committed to max out their mining at 20% network hashrate. The sales numbers they publish in their website includes their 20% (what other asic manufacturer publishes this number?)

Please remember, this is a US based company and they can be sued if they lie, even go to jail (I bought only 2 units, but I'd be in the front of the line for the class action if they screw me, once I trust someone I can be really pissed of if I get betrayed)

As for calculating profitability this is available: http://www.sialytics.com