Technology advancement. Thats what I'm for. Thats the only way that blockchain will prevail. However it gets there, as long as it does and nobody gets burned, I'm okay with it. So yall are saying that you would rather have waited another 6-9 months for a 10nm asic boosted miner to be available?
Coming from a miner currently running >300TH/s-- YES.
1. The latest 16nm miners still have long legs left and depending on your power cost will be good to run at least another year or more. I easily see the latest A841's I've picked up being good for at least 2.
2. As expected by those who work in the semiconductor industries outside of this mad market, moving to lower nodes do NOT in-turn make dramatic improvements in mining chip performance. So far there very little to no advantage in power eff being seen. The Halong T1 miner uses 10nm chips and even with its AB is so far showing to be - meh. Ebang's 10nm miner actually has worse efficiency than their 16nm miner has.
3. As a miner wanting to get maximum life out of my equipment, the longer delay before truly faster/more efficient gear hits the market the better. Helps slow down the diff rise at least a little.