Plugging in the numbers, it's $12/day revenue, $9 profit at 9 cents power.
Assume they ship 3k units, which increase difficulty by 25% over a month, revenue down to $9/day, profit $6/day. Seems like a 100 day payback investment, but whatsminer DCR shipping in 60 days.
Nah this will get wrecked.
nailed it lol
people said the same thing on the Z9-Mini .. 1st batch buyers made out.
-Matt
The equihash algo is huge, and it kicked out gpu miners, dcr network hashrate is not as vast, only one coin to mine whIle equihash has many, z9 mini use little power, this does not. Decred already has asics, equilhash didnt. ROI will be harder on these. The question is how many of these dr3s were contributing to the existing network hashrate for "testing".
There's also the possibility of a second generation of dcr asics from innosillicon, the d9+ was probably just an overclocked d9. If 44th can be achieved on the whatsminer there's likely to be something that fast around the corner.
Bitmain are probably building their new dcr asics on their new 7nm chip process, which they will start to flood the network when they have finished milking us the dr3s. Plus if whatsminer mines on their 44th miner after they sold out a batch or two it won't be pretty in a month or so.
Stick to miners that mine large major algos, eg sha and scrypt. especially in this market. New miners will come.