Quote from: mojoxc on May 01, 2018, 07:51:28 PM

Quote from: kgeorgiev on May 01, 2018, 07:32:28 PM

I have another question - what do you think is the residual value of these cards and is there any secondary market for them? Of course I'd love to mine with them for years but you need to have some expectations for the entire investment cycle which means thinking about the scenario when these are not profitable and you have to get rid of them somehow.

I know that you should never invest anything you can't lose in this field but still, with GPU rigs for example you always have expectation for at least 50% residual value in the worse scenarios and there is a well-established secondary market. So I'm curious what's the situation with these, as somebody who hardly knows anything about the FPGA market.

Probably zero once they have been run for a few years, almost like an asic as there is no gamer market to buy the old equipment.

Given that the ROI is in theory as low as 3-4 months, I definitely wouldn't care about resale value if I've run it for a few years. The question applies to the scenarios where everything crashes in 2-4 months or so when the device is almost new.

These are clearly not gaming devices but they obviously do exist outside of crypto mining and thus there are people using them for something. Which means there must be some secondary market and so my question was where is that market and how active is it.