Quote from: philipma1957 on August 24, 2018, 02:27:06 AM

Quote from: VoskCoin on August 23, 2018, 02:47:50 PM

Quote from: philipma1957 on August 22, 2018, 04:13:39 AM

Quote from: KaydenC on August 22, 2018, 03:37:22 AM

Not a huge fan of this form factor tbh. Makes it difficult to resell especially when they have to be shipped overseas.

The low noise makes it a great home miner, but they are missing out on sales not offering a miner in the S9 form factor. A poor business decision.

Well if it is real. The watercooling has to be pretty big.

Without the cooling setup it most likely cant do 52.5 watts a th

Or 55 watts a th.

If you have 3 s9s and ten cent power. You do. 42th at 4200 watts

That is 10 kwatts vs say 5 kwatts or 50 cents a day 180 a year.

So 3 s9s are about 1600 a savings of 2900

So at 10 cent power in 15 years it pays for itself.

Lets say you have 20 cent power.

So you save 1 dollar a day in power or 365 a year. In 7.5 years you make up the power.

I am pretty sure the numbers are correct.

So if it breaks you are screwed.
If one s9 breaks you have two left.

Also vosk tested it. First boot he was hashing only 4th. Maybe it is what the real hashrate is and the server site failed to supplement it up to 40 th.

If the gear has a few old reworked bfl monarchs it could do 4th.

Asicminer could be doing a scam here. Be very careful with this.

If it is old bfl monarchs rebuilt it is low cost to them and they could rent from nicehash to supplement it.

Nicehash has 400ph so if 200 ph is rented they could cover 5000 of these.

For quite a while. Not saying they do this but it is possible.

An interesting theory :O -- I'm still in negotiations w/ them but I may just go ahead and tear it down regardless

I prefer to be wrong. Which means they have the best gear ever made.

But the scam could be real.

Very easy for it to be proven real on their part.

Just let you mine directly to a pool. No server in between . The pool shows the hash rate of the gear.

Boom it is real.

The pool shows much lower hashrate with no server in between boom-it is a scam.

boom, looking more like a scam -- if I would have bought this miner I would have paid 20,500 plus customs $5000

So easily $25,500

This would have cost ~1300 Zen --> I have mined ~100 Zen and the miner no longer works . .
(Refer to ZenCash/Horizen mined) https://zen.zhash.pro/workers/znVVwjRSkrEc9iExF1aMcR3MtFXtQRR2kiL

I was extremely skeptical before, now i could not imagine recommending this and I haven't even tore it down yet!