People are selling batch 2 Obelisk miners for less than the new batch price (and you'll receive them sooner, too) on the Discord channel.
I should do this...but they are MY doorstops damn it......(er wait ...that is the 5 obelisk sc-1 siacoin miners.....)
er...nevermind...I'm getting my ONE decred miner (August? 2018) 2nd batch? for FREE...or/er/well for 4 800 buck 1/2 off coupons...and the other $800 covered
(tried to talk my buddy out of it ..but he is a whale and got like 15 decred miners so WTF...no one listens to me...)
So, for once I may actually KNOW I can ROI on an ASIC unit of some kind! Just have to beat $1 over the electric cost!
(Dare to Dream!) ...er but than again...I have 5 obelisk doorstops...so meh!
This usually happens. Pretty much no different than 2012-2013 when I think it was Butterfly labs was taking preorders for their ASICs.
Same happened in 2014 with KnCMiner and their Neptune miners.
All were delivered very late and were pretty much door stops.
pretty much said the same thing on the other thread (see link below) Although, KNC miner had their 1st chips out in 3 months from design/chip and unit..fudged up after that thou...
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1060294.msg36716928#msg36716928
So their gamble on TSMC of a 1-year production...did NOT work out ..(maybe)
the last ASIC chip as you said we're missed 4 or more times (they kept screwing up at the wafer end)...So Obelisk must have gotten a pretty
good rate from them to try this again..and it still took 1 year! KNC Miner in 2014 had a chip designed/out/in machines in 3 months!
Anyway, it is probably 'moot' anyway, the network that the ASIC's are to work with, does not look near ready to me...with the Bitmain Sia-tech units
and the Decred miner, Bitmain will likely have out in the next 2 months....well...doorstops indeed
anyway, hope I'm wrong, but was my 'fear' as soon as they announced TSCM chips and a 1-year delay, to be sure, seems they ate up that year
already..
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brad