[ANN] Sfards:SF100, the first 28nm Dual-Mode Miner is accepting pre-order now - page 43.

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Quote from: HerbPean on June 26, 2015, 12:22:32 PM

Quote from: SFMiner on June 26, 2015, 10:48:49 AM

I'd probably buy a few of these if SFARDS can get the pricing down to $800, and offer individual unit purchases vs. 100 unit MOQ.

I would also like to see some test units sent to trusted veterans on Bitcointalk, so we know what we're dealing with. Otherwise I'll hold out until Bitmain launches the S7.

Yeah, i wish we had a specific confirmed time frame for the S7 or whatever they will launch next. I'm starting to think that with the price of the BTC and the halving next year... i'm not sure if the manufacturers will hold on the launch of their new chips. I guess someone will pull the trigger first and the rest will follow.

If Bitmain revealed a time frame for the S7, they would have a hard time completing their sells on the present S5 and S4+.

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Quote from: SFMiner on June 26, 2015, 10:48:49 AM

I'd probably buy a few of these if SFARDS can get the pricing down to $800, and offer individual unit purchases vs. 100 unit MOQ.

I would also like to see some test units sent to trusted veterans on Bitcointalk, so we know what we're dealing with. Otherwise I'll hold out until Bitmain launches the S7.

Yeah, i wish we had a specific confirmed time frame for the S7 or whatever they will launch next. I'm starting to think that with the price of the BTC and the halving next year... i'm not sure if the manufacturers will hold on the launch of their new chips. I guess someone will pull the trigger first and the rest will follow.

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One guy over in the "Group Buy" sub-forum suggested that it would take well over 386 YEARS to break even in terms of the miner cost. That was with the usual fantasy provisions of "free electricity and no difficulty changes".

While I expected a "premium" price, this is more "Extreme Premium" pricing.

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Just think though. In October, they can have a sale! Just in time for Christmas......

$999!!!

Pure speculation on my part. I wonder who will be buying at $1100+?

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Quote from: Xian01 on June 26, 2015, 10:26:49 AM

Quote from: pekatete on June 26, 2015, 09:01:12 AM

$1129 ..... by eck! They can't have that strong weed down that end .. surely not.

At that price point so am I .... still hopeful it is a number plucked out of thin air though ...

Quote from: SFMiner on June 26, 2015, 10:48:49 AM

I'd probably buy a few of these if SFARDS can get the pricing down to $800, and offer individual unit purchases vs. 100 unit MOQ.

I would also like to see some test units sent to trusted veterans on Bitcointalk, so we know what we're dealing with. Otherwise I'll hold out until Bitmain launches the S7.

If the reported bulk buy price of $1129 is correct (I assume it is FOB), then there is not a chance in hell getting single units at $800, at least not in the next 6-10 weeks (if ever). Saying that, I'm still trying to get that price into my head ...

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I'd probably buy a few of these if SFARDS can get the pricing down to $800, and offer individual unit purchases vs. 100 unit MOQ.

I would also like to see some test units sent to trusted veterans on Bitcointalk, so we know what we're dealing with. Otherwise I'll hold out until Bitmain launches the S7.

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Quote from: Xian01 on June 26, 2015, 10:26:49 AM

Quote from: pekatete on June 26, 2015, 09:01:12 AM

$1129 ..... by eck! They can't have that strong weed down that end .. surely not.

Agreed, that is a bit egregious of a price, and we don't even know if that is with shipping or not (my guess is probably not). Then everything else you need to run the miner.

I have also not gotten an email response in two days about running a group buy. I guess for this first batch they are more concerned with people who will buy and use all 100 units instead of having to gather the money from others. My guess is that they have quite a bit of interest from some big time miners who can buy 100+ units at a time and don't need to bother with the little guy.

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Quote from: pekatete on June 26, 2015, 09:01:12 AM

$1129 ..... by eck! They can't have that strong weed down that end .. surely not.

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I want one but at 1179 I can buy a script miner used that does 60 MH and a KNC miner off Ebay Used or could the other day that according to the Seller worked at 3 th for around 500, total cost for both a little less then this one, uses more power but I'll make more with faster speeds,won't feel Ive been cheated .

They will sell it just not to your every day player.

I'll wait for for bitmain there prices are more reason able .

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Quote from: s1gs3gv on June 26, 2015, 09:31:38 AM

Why would Sfards sell one of these machines for less than it could make mining ?

A bird in the hand is worth 2 in the bush.

If you read the post they say they did burn in. >>>> say it is true.

They are selling sets of 100 at a time >>>>>>>>>> say it is true.

So if they made 1000 or less and mined them for 2 weeks which would mean a big place to mine them.

a 1 mega watt farm 1000 x 1000 = 1 mega watt.

We all know coins go up and down in price. So the risk of running a 1000 unit farm is high since based on diff of btc and ltc it does not look like they have been doing it for months.

My guess is they made about 500-1000 pieces and they can run 100 or 200 at a time in house.

So if they sell off a few sets of 100 they are close to break even.

I will be nice and say it does as advertised.

So lets say the built the first batch of 1000 for 1 million. which due to having the chips made is a big underestimate.
They may have enough chips left to build 1000 more or sell some chips.
They are looking to get back the 1 or 2 million (low estimate) they laid out to build this .

Once they sell 4 or 5 sets of 100 they will be at less risk.

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seems a bit risky to buy this machine just before the reward of litecoin halves.. if the price does indeed double again we could have tons of epic dumps.. Remember there are many holding still with $4 - 45$ ltc.. Ive second thoughts about this now as the market is going to get very volatile over the next few months.. I think its best to sit back and see what happens. Ill continue to mine with what ive got.. at 7.5 cents per kw im still running the gridminer a1's... Ill keep an eye on this to see how it progresses. If a group buy ever does come about in the US please let me know.. Ill see how conditions are then.

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Why would Sfards sell one of these machines for less than it could make mining ?

HerbPean

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And you need to wait 6 weeks but let's wait a bit more, maybe they will change their price or someone else will come with something better if they buy more then 100.

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$1129 ..... by eck! They can't have that strong weed down that end .. surely not.

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Quote from: HerbPean on June 26, 2015, 08:50:37 AM

Lee from our hosting group got a price (Lee's hosting group)

Quote from: pcfli on June 26, 2015, 06:00:29 AM

get one price of 7000CNY(1129$), but we need wait until the middle of the august before we can get the miner....
so what are your guys thinking about this offer

Looks like I won't be buying one ! :HELL

yep I'm out..

makes no sense..you can get used spondoolies sp20's on ebay at 1.7TH for less then 500 bucks
you can get a 50mh scrypt miner for probably 200 bucks...sure the electric cost is high but they are in hand
in 2 days and with the halving coming up for scrypt ...

well none of this makes any sense to run the above USED
equipment at these prices and point in time difficulty and other wise
...can't see the logic that they think a new combo of such above would work any
better at that 1129 usd price point! it is a wash..neither would work in any sane miner matter imho

sheesh.....

they are not even trying ..its gimmick to get a 'product' out there for their real efforts on future bulk chip sales and the use mostly I'd bet on their own data farms
type equipment arrangements...

that price makes no frigging sense at all otherwise for this hardware either for home use or data hall use nor with my above used equivalent ebay examples nor
their new product...so anyway imho thats what I see from all this

anyway my current take on this if the offer above is legit

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Quote from: HerbPean on June 26, 2015, 08:50:37 AM

Lee from our hosting group got a price (Lee's hosting group)

Quote from: pcfli on June 26, 2015, 06:00:29 AM

get one price of 7000CNY(1129$), but we need wait until the middle of the august before we can get the miner....
so what are your guys thinking about this offer

Looks like I won't be buying one ! Tongue

That`s too much Huh

HerbPean

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Lee from our hosting group got a price (Lee's hosting group)

Quote from: pcfli on June 26, 2015, 06:00:29 AM

get one price of 7000CNY(1129$), but we need wait until the middle of the august before we can get the miner....
so what are your guys thinking about this offer

Looks like I won't be buying one ! Tongue

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It's so strange that SFARDS don't want for review of some test unit to appear here... It should rise the sales and it will be very good for SFARDS positive image... Undecided

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Quote from: lama-hunter on June 26, 2015, 04:49:10 AM

Any updates of the Price of the SFARDS 100 ?

Only rumors, several of which are most likely not even rumors but an attempt to force SFARDS hand and elicit a response.

But hey, somebody on aliexpress is trying to sell dev kits, at least Wink

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Any updates of the Price of the SFARDS 100 ?
very interested to buy one of thoose, but not in bulk order.

regards

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