Quote from: mikeywith on Today at 04:59:31 AM

Quote from: MZ4 on Today at 03:19:15 AM

I wonder how is it possible all the Asic manufactures to have been for 2 months almost without a stock and if anyone has any information about it? I am thinking that with crazy market they should be selling 24/7 like hot bread. At least for whatever batch they can produce, something that is not happening and I can not understand the reason. Ok the silicon is rare and the companies who produce the chips have many more clients etc. But is it possible to be left so easily out of stock?

Riot alone has an order of over 30,000 miners, and they will receive the last batch by October 2021, this is one company out of the many large industrial-grade mining orders that hit Bitmain in late 2020, Bitmain staff and robots are probably working 24/7 but there is only so much they can do, the production of mining gears is capped by chips production from TSMC, large companies like Intel, AMD and Apple can hardly get enough chips for their production, Bitmain, and the other mining manufacturers are the "small fish in a big pond".

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Also does anyone have heard something about when they will open their sales again?

Nobody knows, but we know it's very unlikely to be before September, I mean even if they re-stock next month, chances are you won't get the gears until the end of September, and that is being very optimistic, the Aug batch was sold in no time, I am pretty sure Bitmain only put a small portion of their products for the public as a "courtesy" to its small clients, but with whales like Riot joining the mining industry, small miners will be ignored and your will only option would be over-paying the resellers, which isn't something you want to do before thinking ~~twice~~ 10 times.

Thank you for your answer. I understand what you say. But I can not understand why they are selling to Riot and not to small clients when they can get much more money from the retail clients.