Hi all, lots of different tought in there !
Here's mine : I've ordered BFL rigs in July and others in September. Before putting my order, I knew possible delay past October could occurs. I can deal with that, so I ordered. I've look to the competition, have almost ordered some, but seems that the power usage stuff is won by BFL ! We'll see.
As I take nothing for granted, neighter 3 competitors shipping dates.
Again, let's see. I Like the concept of self contained unit announced by Avalon, this is great, I also think they will make their own miner, open source.. I like it too. I may order some Avalon stuff, but I'm in no hurry..
For the point about who will be the first to ship, I don't care that much, sure it could produce some extra BTC, but im in for long long long.. So, over all, it does'nt change that much.
I've no problem with the so called "interest-free loan" to BFL.. I've paid in BTC, so for me it was'nt work-earned $ anyway. Ok, BTC were 6$ and they are now 12$.. No problem, they also could have been to 3$ today. I've sold more than 5k BTC well under 1$ in the past, no regrets, as I was always happy to sell them. In investement, speculation, regrets are useless IMO.
Before 2013, I will probably order 1 or 2 more rig from BFL, and maybe 1 from Avalon. Dont know about bAsic, as their power consumption seems higher than BFL, and it's not a self-contained unit like Avalon !
To conclude, I spent only what I could lose overnight without problems..
Nothing has been proven yet, so dont take anything granted !
Next weeks / months will be exiting for sure, no matter what happen
I like the way you think DoomDumas
I've ordered 1 30gh unit & 1 tradein of my FPGA Single for the 60 gh unit.I made my order in June,in the first 100 to 150 orders
I have no plan B,the only question about delivery for me is WHEN,not IF.No matter what,if your NOT in the FIRST batch from ANY vendor,you already are on plan B
I too used BTC to finance my purchases & not hard earned cash,so I can wait for a refund,if needed.I have faith that won't happen,maybe another delay,but I can deal with that........
The power consumption SHOULD concern you guys,like creativex said,when ASIC's are the only thing mining in 2 or more months,you'll wish you had the lowest.My power is .12 to .14 cents per KWH,high enough to make a choice based solely on that,plus the ASIC tradein for next gen helped too
As for Avalon,really great idea to make a miner stand alone,BUT,my PC that I'll be using to host my ASIC's ,consumes no more than 50 to 60 watts,dual core 45 watt CPU,1 gig DDR2 RAM,onboard video & an old hdd,& only the CPU was bought,I had all the other parts from old PC's layin around,so for me,its a waste.In fact I have 2 of these rigs mining right now with 6950's,I'll sell the vid cards to gamers I know & recoup some cash....or BTC