Hi All, well it's been a while now since we turned the miner off and nothing particularly positive has happened to the BTC price or network difficulty. As such, the miner would still not be covering it's power costs and so it's not worth turning back on. It's been an interesting year, but I think we're at the point where the group should decide what to do with the hardware and finally dispand. When we started this venture we anticipated selling the hardware at the end of the year's mining and splitting the winnings from the sale between group members. However, the landscape has changed so dramatically since we started and given that bitmain are selling S3s for 0.52 BTC, which have much lower power consumption and about half the hashrate, we're not likely to get much for it.

I'd be interested to hear everybody's thoughts on what, where and how to sell. Ebay will fetch the best price, but we risk chargebacks (and so would have to keep the proceeds of the sale on hand until the chargeback period has ended) and will then face costs for converting to BTC to distribute to the group. I'm happy to sell on this forum, and have made successful trades here, but most people understand the value of the hardware and so the price will probably not be too high. Finally, I'd be willing to offer the group £50 (0.23 BTC at current exchange rate) for the hardware, which is broadly in line with the GH/s/BTC prices for the S3, because it's less hassle to keep it than break it up sell it and post it on. Also, I've grown somewhat attached to it after having looked after it for a year and it feels like a bit of history. Let me know what you think.