Only selling the Avalon Nano 3 on a crowdfunding website is bullshit. I’m still waiting for my “February Delivery” unit to ship btw.
Full Disclosure: I’m the Bitaxe project instigator.
I do agree the delivery of nano 3 was slow as shit. But 4tb vs .5tb and 150 usd vs 250-299 usd it is not close.
Their product
fucked you
fucked sidehack
fucked Apollo II
And all of us are lucky that Avalon / Canaan is shipping slowly if they were fast it would kill off all of the units above.
Their price point crushes all of the above small miners.
Avalon really hurt small watt low power builders with the nano3
If the Avalon Nano 3 wasn't shit at the low end, it would be a lot better. Doesn't make sense to pay $200 after shipping to get 50-60W/TH. There's a lot of places where power is expensive so the axe makes more sense for that.
With the nano 3, on low you only get 1 TH/s. That's 2-3X the cost in electric. Also it's a pretty big device for only 1 TH. I do agree that of you wanna run 3-4 TH+ nothing beats the nano 3 but what's nice about the axe is that you're getting a miner that will be "competitive" efficiency wise for the next 2 epochs probably.
There's also new developments like the 0xAxe that have 16 chips, when the BM1368 version is ready to go, it'll push 10-15 TH/s for under 200W.