Quote from: raoulsergia on March 09, 2018, 04:52:07 PM

Quote from: iuhkymt on March 09, 2018, 03:34:04 PM

Quote from: big_daddy on March 09, 2018, 12:20:44 PM

new ASIC for SiaCoin is coming:

Just after the announcement of their new DragonMint B29 Blake256 ASIC Miner for Decred (DCR), Halong Mining has also started taking orders for a new DragonMint B52 Blake2b ASIC Miner for Siacoin (SC) or other Blake2b POW coins. The hashrate of the new ASIC miner is cited as 3.83 THS for Siacoin mining at 1380 Watt of power usage, so a serious device in terms of hasrate compared to other alternative options from Bitmain A3 (already available) and Obelisk SC1 (upcoming).
Where the Halong Mining DragonMint B52 Blake2b ASIC Miner is suffering is the price, although almost half of the Decred miner they started selling, the B52 Blake2b ASIC miner is still pricey at $5549 USD. Even when considering that the price includes a power supply and free shipping it is pretty steep for an ASIC miner that can be used for just one cryptocurrency for the moment. Halong Mining should start shipping these new miners by the end of the month, so you can expect a pretty big jump in term of the total network hashrate for mining Siacoin.

So now we are expecting the second batch od A3s, the first od Halong, and the Obelisks (when? unknown)

I am expecting a big jump of value

Personally, I don't think that ASICs are good for mineable coins, in particular Sia. If devs have good plans for difficulty adjustments, ASIC will become useless. Unfortunately, most of current coins don't have this ability.

SIA also reportedly has a safe switch that will make select ASICs useless if the community wants to do so.
Now its not a real problem, but who knows what may happen in the future....

However the mining manufacturers make the money so they are happy Grin

the company who made siacoin pulled a butterflylabs pre-order game people fell for it..now bitmain chinese take over coin..what's the point to put good money after bad?...sell more ICO siatokens?..pfft :\ see you at 50 satoshi weee