Quote from: miguelik on Today at 04:42:45 PM

To make BTC more decentralised != To make more money...
A farm will buy thousands of miners at once
Hobby miners 1-10 at once
Much less headache and more money invested in farms

Yeah exactly, Bitmain and other manufacturers just don't care about retails and home-miners.
The target is the professionals who order dozen and hundreds of ASICs.

You can get 10TH/s for about 900w with a Braiinos firmware, at least that's more or less what I get on my R4s (which have similar hashboards to the S9s)

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Apollo and merch have 1-3T\HASH mining hardware but the hardware is not upto the mark and after sales is not that good.

Sidehack, like some other members, is very active on the forum and offers continuous support on its productions.
Personally, I have always been able to find solutions to my problems, with all the Gekkoscience products I have had.
If it's a really desperate case, there is also the Kano server on discord, there is a Gekko section where you can find help for almost all models, it's very reactive.

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Imagine having a S9i @ 13.5T/hash @ 5nm which only consumes 400W backed by a solar power system.

Yeah we all agree, but that's not the goal of Bitmain IMO.