They made it look like it was a typo but it was never a typo, it was greedy, the truth is they updated the price to look like a typo
after the eth dev meeting. bitmain is close to have 51% attack on eth network. If it happens to eth then it will teach eth devs a lesson but i believe bitmain will not do it cause they got the green light from eth devs to keep using their f3. I believe that is why eth devs did not want to change, afraid bitmain 51% attack. eth devs deep know they cant counter the f3 which is 10x the hashrate of the e3 and because of that hashrate and since bitmain and co hold all eth asics yet, is easy to do the 51% attack.

The world is starting to hate the communist party occupying china...

F*ck Kommunist !    (Cold war flashbacks)

As I've said before, I'm willing to design the PCB for an FPGA miner if someone else writes the HDL. There could be some cost savings by stripping out a lot of the extra crap that is on the usual FPGA demo/devkit board as well as more flexibility with the choice of FPGA. It probably wouldn't be smart to stray too far afield from the devkit FPGA choices, however, as that will make debugging a lot more difficult. That said, there's no reason to throw in the towel just because the devkit boards are made in China. Bitmain can't get its way on everything, you know.

The three boards I am going to initially support are the Nexys Video (XC7A200T $490), Avnet AES-KU040-DB-G (Kintex Ultrascale+ $975), and VCU1525 (Virtex VU9P $3995).  I will start a thread soon and list which algorithms will be released for each board (the Virtex can run all the algorithms, the Kintex can run most, the Nexys can only run a few).

My implementations are 100% unrolled pipelines running at one clock cycle per stage.  The ROI on the Kintex and Virtex boards range from 50-150 days based on the algorithm, in today's bear market with 1-2 year ROI's on GPU's.  If the market rises back to Dec/2017 levels, ROI would be ridiculously short.

Please do not purchase any of the above hardware until I announce the official hash rates.  I hope other FPGA developers follow my lead and stop mining in secret and start spreading the wealth.  We need to give crypto back to the people.  With enough people mining with high end FPGA's, Bitmain and Baikal can no longer control the market and screw people over.

Power consumption for 90% usage on the VCU1525 is around 170W.  The best high end rig is a standard mining motherboard with 8 x VCU1525 and a single 1600W power supply.

what do you mean?

Antminer F3 is already there in the wild?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L-1iG6mdJ8&feature=youtu.be

It is pure ignorance to blame everything on ASICs.


1. ASICS do not lead to any more centralization than anything else. Why do you think we have a GPU shortage? Massive farms running GPU rigs, including mine.

2. All of these companies started developing altcoin ASICs after the market cap for them went crazy. Its not like you just create these things overnight.

3. If a company spends millions designing a product, just because one sector of the target audience doesnt want them, does that mean the shelve the entire thing? Manufacturers have no way of knowing ahead of time how the market will react. They build a product, put it out, and what happens happens. They didnt design these specifically to screw gpu miners or whatever stupid crap you guys think. Its up to the buyer to decide if they think a unit will be profitable. It is not the miner manufacturers duty to explain the entire mining ecosystem to a customer. Hell Bitmain even puts a disclaimer on their site BEFORE YOU BUY THE MINER. If people ignore the warnings and the historic trends they deserve to lose their money. Bitmain knows the ASIC will change the market for the algo in question, which is why they price different batches lower and lower, since the early adopter profitability just isnt there.

4. Realize that this is an ever changing industry, other wise it will stagnate. The problem is you guys all got into this when the profits were way overblown and now you are crying because you cant make a thousand dollars a month off of a single rig. So based on your lack of understanding as far as how the industry functions as well as the basics of economics, you blame the manufacturers.

Gotta be level headed.  You see people freakin out all over the place, fire selling their miners etc.   By my calcs, most batch 1 A3 buyers will have ROI'd by the time the 2nd A3 batch comes online in late March.  Then profits reduced from ~$30-50/day to $10-20/day assuming SC price stays around these levels.