Its neither...they had huge issues with yield and board problems. LTC diff being where it is is simply the extra ALT scrypt hash that jumped on straight LTC after halving.
Good point....as a 'greedy' high end owner of two KNC Titan(s) that have ROI'd I HOPE you Sir are correct
(hell its all about me I'll fess up)
but really board problems etc that I had not heard....although they always seemed to me to be a bigger deal as a sha-256 miner then scrypt ..er from the bulk chip sales
point of view...assuming they are doing such
but yeah shift from alts would be nice that means that LTC difficulty will 'eventually' flatline again and the Titans insane need to make them selves into doorstops will be
less about difficulty and more about their insane need to try and suicide (knc raspberry pi piece of crap 8th grade science fair project that they are)
but anyway......anyone hear of any big ass miners to make me less smug about the above and maybe weep a little bit and sob? I've heard zip...just the sfards supposed
maybe chips and something about innosilicon chips but that sounded (if i remember right) like 14nm vaporware for now
well it could be worse I could have kept the neptune orig order ...no way I'd be running a knc neptune for 10 months with btc difficulty ..so at least i missed that bullet
(and robbery) that knc diverted pre-orders for 4 months of those to the old knc swedish data hall)
so it goes
my setup if anyone is interested
lostgonzo.imgur.comfuture doorstops
(note: knc jupiter 550gh btc miner on bottom shelf is off...is currently fulfilling the function of gravity assist device to keep workbench down)
but yeah.... LTC difficulty is going up after halving....so there is 'new' stealth equip/chips out there someplace imho ......... we will be the last to know
You're not factoring in that LTC price jumped a TON shortly before the LTC halfing - I'm pretty sure THAT is what drove some folks to turn lots of older, once-unprofitable miners back on - they're now PROFITABLE again, if only a little.
My suspicion is that the original batch of SF100 units were so poorly designed at the board level that even SFARDS realised they needed to FIX it before they would be able to sell a significant quantity.
You too could also be correct and the fact sfards waited till AFTER halving to really move any product seems to back your claim on quality issues.
Anyway ..just want it to flatline for difficulty (LTC) and rise in price (LTC) due to halving....(I got needs)
and IF it comes to pass some big ass scrypt miner farm comes to be or another data hall based mining chip solution for scrypt comes to pass .. I would at least like to
know about it ...rather then just look at difficulty on LTC and scratch head ...I will need a period of time to prepare for 'mourning' the demise of my Titan(s) to doorstop
status...would like the 'illusion' of control ..that at least I could see that semi truck coming to run me down a bit down the road .....rather then the suspense of wtf is
going on with difficulty and LTC. (hey its a pet peeve in reality it don't matter much what eventually will be ...will be ...but still )
You're not that greedy, you got at least one of them dirt cheap.
yeah may be good to just get out of mining eventually ...I mean how long can 'dumb luck' carry a person..I mean I even got a BFL refund back of my 8.3k I mean 1 year and 20
days later but still
Titans are going into their 12th month ..25 days or so and the supposed knc warranty is shot (like they even do anything anymore)
with mining done I can just let coinbase be my friend ....and then just yell and rant at price alone
ah..blessed relief
I should do my next plan I call it 'attic mining' I have like 5k of crap I should sell on Ebay for $$$ and then just get BTC with it...if btc goes beanie baby I plop 2k into attic
put in better floor call it a rec room etc (partially finished) and my house value goes up and viola.....sideways 2x value (on paper) on house with rec room above the 2k and 5k i lost to btc say...... ..ie win/win even if crypto goes tulips
.....but it sooooooo boring!!!!! lots of little stuff worth 20 bucks so much 'office space cubicle work' ...so I stall
but yeah that is the way to go.....worse case I get a rec room out of it .....less junk to worry about .....make the $$$ back on paper in house value anyway (frigging crytpo is on paper anyway as well I hoard it all) and then could just despair on the 18k of asic equip making beanie baby coin
should such a catastrophe in crypto happen
but think of all the coin i could mine if it wall went beanie baby
(thats it embrace the denial!)
but on the other hand if crypto takes off in value again another bubble I'm really really gonna kick myself I did not do some 'attic mining' an move that 5k of crap into crypto!
(too much to do ...too much laziness)
Ah crypto ...all the enthusiasm of being an Amway Salesman ..with none of the security of at least getting a lot of Soap out of the process if it all goes south