Quote from: aditya6997 on March 13, 2018, 03:03:11 PM

Not from bitmain but from Baikal!

I've seen those puppies and they're sweet. The ROI was 45 days. It's much more now that they're in the wild.
At current prices, they're too expensive, however.

Edit: I wonder if there's a jocker in the Baikal asics too. Now that monero is going to v7, I am very curious to see if the baikal asic is programmable (i.e. an fpga design).

In theory, if could very easily be just a bunch of super-fast memory tied to an fpga that can be *easily* updated via firmware updates.

If that is the case, it will take a little more tweaking to defeat them: I mean jacking up the memory requirements beyond what baikal has on board or changing the algo completely, and going with something totally different.