they seem to be sold out.
I guess people were willing to pay 400 to get the 19 watts a th.
I still don’t understand the mind set of buying these over the chimney miners.
but they are smaller and look better.
Still 1000 usd for a 20th to 37th miner that does 20 watts th
vs 400 usd for 3th miner that does 20 watts a th
my take:
the electric cost for a 60W miner in a year is between $50-$100 @ 10¢-20¢
the electric cost for 400-1000W is $350-$1800 @ 10¢-20¢
the appeal to the 60W miner is that it kind of just feels like a one time fee of $400 and then you're spending less than $5-10 a month in electric, which is not really noticeable to many people.
that and you get a device that'll be efficient for a long time, tbh i wouldn't be surprised to see people mining with these thru the 2032 halving
i'm personally waiting for the 0xAxe which will have 16 chips. there's also someone on the OSMU group working on a solderless ASIC module so eventually there's probably going to be a bitaxe version that's very easy to fix/upgrade.