Nope - still don't see the reason why a toy miner requires a pre-order of months.
It's old mining chips with poor Hash/Joule.
I'd just wish sidehack would make something with recent mining chips.
All the major manufacturers are ignoring home mining, expecting 3kW and more per miner, so we end up with poor performance old hardware for home miners.
125 watts 2TH/s is 62.5W/TH ... = over 810W for 13TH/s ... if you wanna compare it to VERY OLD hardware.
(and that's assuming they're not doing the typical over hype stats also)
The node option is pretty poor also.
Firstly, there's no way you'd ever run your own solo mining with it, that would just be a major block loss waiting to happen for most people.
So to run a node yourself, you want an at least an i3 with at least 8GB ram and 1TB HDD, stick Ubuntu on it and add Bitcoin core.
A current full node needs over 360GB of disk space just for bitcoin.
500GB isn't expecting it to last for very long.
NVMe is faster than HDD, but makes no difference for the bitcoin network at all.
Space matters.
Bottom line is it says $600 for old mining technology and a poor spec node that will need upgrading in the not too distant future.
Edit: and with the upcoming taproot changes - using core bitcoin just means getting the next version from them
(see the link at the top of the page)
... especially if there's any bug fixes for taproot before/after it goes live.
You clearly dont get what im trying to do with this product. And its a bit disappointing coming from someone like you that has been in the space as long as you have. The product is not for people on this forum, its for new people coming into Bitcoin now that would never run a node and would never mine in the first place.
No one needs an a top end system to run a node, nor the latest ASICs to mine. The point is that we are getting more people involved in doing what they are supposed to be doing to decentralize the network.
Sure could I have gone with the latest asics? Yes, but it would have cost 3x more and then I would have the latest and greatest that prices out the people this is designed for.
HDD vs NVMe is not about network, its about sync time. We put a lot of time and effort to bring sync times from typical SBC hardware from a week + to under 48 hours with our system. Thats a huge leap and is comparable to the hardware you quoted for a fraction of the cost. Drive is also upgradable, we are not going to charge extra for a 1TB drive when people will be able to upgrade in 2 years to a 2 TB drive for the same price.
You should be happy with every node that comes on the network, and every miner that is not part of a centralized mine.
What outcome do you prefer? A Bitcoin network run by millions of devices like this "shitty" hardware as you describe it, or the current trajectory we are on where a few hundred people control a large % of the hashrate, and most of the nodes are run by centralized exchanges?