Re: Bitmain just announced the AntMiner A3 - 815GH/s Siacoin miner - Blake(2b)
Why yikes? When these asics come out everyone else will stop mining on their gpu, cpu, etc. The difficulty readjustment is also broken and should be fixed at block 139,000. Based upon my calculations each unit should still make $700/day even with 1700 units being sold (once the difficulty adjustment is fixed).
Oh, you guys are doing calculations based on messed up difficulty.
For sure, 700$ / day easy. We will all get 20k per month guys ! GO GO GO
That's what I did with my Avalon batch 1s and 2s and then I sold them for 25K each. First hardware to market is always the most profitable. This is the first batch, with no other manufacturers scheduled for delivery until June. Their typical batch size is around 2K. All of these ASICs will displace the existing miners who will lose profitability and go mine something else. So, what it comes down to is that this batch is going to make up 100% of the SIA hashrate. Your profitability can be determined like so: Nmachines / TotalSold = percentage of batch. Coins per block * 144 (blocks per day) * exrate * yourpercentage = your btc per day.
Also, keep in mind, difficulty for SIA is currently BROKEN. Hashrate is not as high as you think. So all those whattomine calculators aren't worth clicking buttons on.