I went to their website and I'm surprised about this asic, it says 100Gh/s which is more than 100 GPUs and cost really cheap at $2.5k, I made a calculation and the ROI can be reached within 3 weeks, wanted to pre-order one but saw that they will ship before or on June 30 but in 2018 
Update: When trying to purchase: an unknown error has occurred and has been reported to the developers.
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Shipping costs are $35 per unit for US/Europe/China Customers and $70 per unit for anywhere else.
Orders will ship on or before June 30, 2018.
Orders will ship on or before June 30, 2018.
Update: When trying to purchase: an unknown error has occurred and has been reported to the developers.
The ROI will probably be good, but not so short as 3 weeks. More probably 2-3 months. You are probably missing 2 factors:
- 1 obelisk added to the network is nothing, but if 10.000 obelisks are added, the network size will go 5x approximately, and so the difficulty. Thus, profitability will be 5 times less than today's
- Today's block reward is 190000, but in one year it will be 135000
Of course, if more than 10000 ASICs are sold, other manufacturers get there before them or second batches are delivered (while they are promising 2nd batch will never be delivered during a window of 6 weeks) the calculations will change
For the problem you are having in the purchase, I recommend you getting into the Slack or the Reddit and ask there. A lot of people had that problem too yesterday, but I think it was solved.
It is completely crazy to buy an asic that will be delivered 1 year later. Things move too fast in this field, one year is an era.
I agree with both of you I have had same concerns in my previous posts in the thread. Good luck to those who paid for the 430 units presale so far...
