Quote from: sf2 on February 25, 2014, 10:11:40 PM

S1's are now 1.438 btc. Not that it makes much difference Grin

Quote from: BITMAIN on February 25, 2014, 09:15:06 AM

In the next few days, Bitmain will adjust the price of the S1 miner on a daily basis. We will reflect the shipping date difference, which means every time our website store manager deliver the order information into the shipping system at the 18:00PM of Beijing, the price will be adjusted. So please don't be pissed off if you buy the S1 then only 1 minutes later the price dropped a little bit. It only means that you have caught today's last bus.

https://109.201.133.195/index.php?topic=417159.msg5357296#msg5357296

I hope he's right and we continue to get sub 25% difficulty changes for the next couple months...

Quote from: BITMAIN on February 25, 2014, 05:03:50 PM

Bitmain always prices the miner at where the miners share a profit with us, though this is not any guaranty, but only intention, only educated guess for the future of mining difficulty. However, it seems that Bitmain's guess is better than those 25%~30% exponential assumption under which the difficulty fly out of the galaxy.

https://109.201.133.195/index.php?topic=417159.msg5366705#msg5366705

Fantastic Information!! Thank You.

Even at a daily discount rate I don't see a profit in BTC buying these miners or anything else currently on the market. There is still 80ish days left in this cycle so I'll be watching.

I've went through several vendors for 1Thash ASICS at $5000 - $7000 USD none of which looked like they would pay off even with no hosting or power costs.

I'm happy to purchase and host ANT's for anyone who wants one...