I went to BITMAIN booth today in the Inside Bitcoin Hong Kong conference. One of the bitmain's eployee (very nice, big shoutout to him) said there will be upgrade kits for s1 and s2 but will be months later. Basically, just changing pcb.
wow, bitmain making sense, again.
so refreshing in the mining scam industry.
I agree, Bitmain is the better vendor out there, but I have a feeling they just shot themselves in the foot with this S3… With difficulty being so high and going a lot higher in the near term, 500 GH's is not going to cut it. So with that said they are going to knock a lot of the little guys out early…
It was critical for Bitmain to build on the S2 and to make the 1TH's a standard entry level product .. As it stand now, the S3 is going to fit into their 1u/2u product line. The reason I say that is because, 500 GH's will NOT cut it for the long haul … At least the S2 had a fighting chance … I know why they want to ditch the S2 but they should have looked for a way AROUND their S2 shipping issues.. ship the units without PSU's, and package the whole thing as parts / kit .