The project failed.
Their chip yield is very terrible and nearly 0% yield if you SMT several these chips in a PCB.
In this situation, they could not mass production the miners and sell them to the market.
If they successfully manufactured thousands of dual miners, how come the LTC hashrate still no raise?
Their chip yield is very terrible and nearly 0% yield if you SMT several these chips in a PCB.
In this situation, they could not mass production the miners and sell them to the market.
If they successfully manufactured thousands of dual miners, how come the LTC hashrate still no raise?
Yeah....conundrum...the only thing that 'could' happen would be they are selling the chips to 3rd parties and they are running them as full out BTC....
from what I understand doing both BTC and LTC at the same time is not very efficient ....either electricity or mining wise (somewhere on this thread
I think I read that)
So probably they are 'recouping' their development costs in house with data hall either btc or ltc miner wise...so maybe the shoe has yet to fall
I do know they probably have to 'do something' to get their (or try too) their development price back..data hall for exclusive use only would be 1 way
and then when they have got what they got out of that with whatever coin they are mining (btc or ltc) difficulty wise..then I would suspect it would
be the old 'bulk chip sales to china' route ..as we have seen in the past
but they really are not 'tooting their own horn' like it is any kinda success thats for sure!
By the By the last time the SFARDS OP on this thread was active and posted anything was Sept 1st 2015....so yeah....its not looking like a barn buster!
Hi, my SFARD unit is running in dual mode, it's draining 985w and does 1500gh/s btc and 51mh/s ltc, at same time. IT is running very fine on f2pool and does a regular 0,0124 btc/day and 0,5115 ltc/day at this difficult (60883825480 for btc and 49247 for ltc), so i only can say good things about it.
BTW i was seeking to buy some scrypt miners, but is a very hard task, because the halving (last two months, i think) and because there is a lot of stuff with no profit (unless you have a very cheap electricity, or free). I live in Spain, and i have a very cheap electricity to be in Spain (0,089€/Kw or 0,081$/Kw), and i cannot run a lot of scrypt miners (i need 13w/mhs to make some money, but i only have 0,8% of profit), so i only can buy A2 chips, SFARD, KNC Titan and Alcheminer. And KNC Titan are very easy to broken, so i think there is less KNC TItans hashing now. So someone is replacing the hashpower atm (i don't know how).
I don't think folk are shutting their machines off yet...mining at an 'elec loss' imho hoping btc will pop and/or take ltc with it...it may have flat-lined already...and the titan(s) will be the last to be shut off ..i have 2 of them (one orig one used have made roi) and am making 600 usd a month at 13c kwh elec at 645mh or about 200 ltc a month
anyway it has not shook out yet..if there is more of a spread between ltc to btc (below 0.0100 ltc to btc) and/or the $$ for btc goes up faster then that relationship you will see difficulty drop imho dramatically...from difficulty that last couple times (9 days) it MAY already be flat-lining difficulty wise again this is for LTC to BTC conversion (my use of this mining)
so anyway how it is working till my titan(s) too...eventually go to doorstops as well
Just look at all the old gear that is being ran. I can't figure it out but a LOT seem to still run old gear. And there is a lot of it for scrypt.
I never could figure it out on why people did if they do not pay electricity, or believed it would go up in value. Either way look at Zeus/Gaw/Hashra all pretty much the same and unless "free" power and people will lose money on most of them.
But posting in here trying to buy more SFards gear will do no good. They have not been answering questions for a LONG time. And I don't expect that to change.
