Hi all - I've been in contact with the factory early this morning. They are making 1000's of boards and shipping in earnest next week. We will be *very* busy building, testing and shipping rigs to you. Please don't knock me for not camping on the forum thread for the next two weeks. I'll do my best.
Don't expect half-price H-boards or rigs to appear on the store any time soon. Tytus and I are not believers in the endless-doubling of difficulty theory promoted by sites like TGB. We'll mine our own equipment before we fire sale hardware.
I am making USB miners, which should show up before the end of the month.
Regards,
Dave
Well we damn well know that Difficulty will sure be doubling for the next 3-4 months with the shit-ton of new 28nm ASICs coming out and
https://ghash.io/ adding 100TH/s++ every Difficulty change!!
Just by adding all the unshipped pre-orders from BFL, Bitfury, Hashfast, KnC, CoinTerra, VMC, Bitmine.ch, Black Arrow, ....(you get the idea)...the Difficulty will be 4X-5X what it is now atleast. Then you have all these and other companies selling their ASIC Chips to Groupbuys and all sorts of other neato projects and Resellers to add to that and it's not slowing down anytime soon...just increasing through the Winter of 2014.
From now on there will probably be no profit for 99% of miners paying over $3/GH/s as the only ones making money are the Asic Companies and resellers. I think most people are now becoming aware of this fact and it is certainly advantageous (IMO) to sell In-Stock gear for Half-Price now and get the Customers who want to support you and Bitfury then to have them at Current prices and risk selling very few in the next couple of months and be stuck with gear that can never ROI even at 1/3 price.
The pre-order Asic market is massively oversold due to the precedent BFL has set. It's gonna be a messy 2014 for Bitcoin miners to be sure and whatever the outcome is, it will certainly be an interesting one. I just don't want the Small/Hobby Miners, that are Central to the Bitcoin Network, to be screwed over in the process and Hate Bitcoin because of a few greedy/unscrupulous Companies.