I am extremely curious to see what BW brings to the table to compete with Bitmain.
I was telling someone the other day all it would take is someone with the right mindset and money to dominate the home miner market. Especially if they buy market share.
If they bring a great product and have great customer service there may be a price war to live for.
The perfect storm for us little guys would be the .1 - .2 range in a 3 - 5 TH machine which allowed people to downlock or change the fans if they want. We do have many co-mining peers who need the ability to run without the noise from a big server psu and miner. Then there are also many of us who don't care about the noise and will blast at full rockin speed as long as it is efficient.
The holy grail would be something so efficient the cost of power didn't matter versus a reasonably low price of bitcoin. Even people paying 20 cents/KWH being able to mine and make good money due to a technological advance would equal great distribution because so many people would maximise power usage and fill any area with a miner. I know my shop, house, and any buildings I could get my hands on would be full versus right now there is no way I would go that "all in". I have kiddos to put through college, help buy vehicles, retirement to think of in a couple of decades, etc, and oh keep my small part of the world turning and burning.
A fella can dream though, so he may as well dream big...
I would be happy with an S7 equivalent or better from a company where the policy reflects customer service first and throw in those couple of things with a price tag of around $950 USD. Talk about difficulty explosion.
I just hope it doesn't turn out like the Sfards scenario. Everything looked great until they stopped talking. I am very surprised anyone bought a unit at their list price, much less a reseller charging even more. I sincerely hope the people who did purchase their Sfard's miners are on their way to a decent ROI via Litecoin and Bitcoin. Those kinds of things sound and look great, but I have heard from too many people it is a sales tactic, and I remember reading that even Sfards states to run one or the other and that even though it will run that way, it is far from optimal functionality and that you should stick with one coin at a time.
My S7 has been good to me so far. I've had it under power for a week today and it has a strangely consistent hashrate. I am used to all of my miners GH/S(avg) fluctuating much more than this S7. It is almost like there was a speed display hardcoded heh. All of my S3, S4, S5, S5+ miners deviate a much larger amount relative to my first S7. It is almost rock solid at GH/S(avg) 4,853.93
It takes a couple of minutes to even see a change to 4,853.90.
Don't get me wrong, I am not complaining about it. I am happy it is consistent and isn't jumping at the rate my S5+ does. The S5+ is usually in the 7,670.97 range. Sometimes I hit 7,700.00 ish, but rarely. Usually it is 7,670.97 to 7,500.00 ish.
As I mentioned, even my other S5s, S4s, and S3s deviate a great deal more than the S7. Again, a good thing, but with what some other people received for their 2 grand of btc for one miner I expected more inconsistency. The 5s timer hops around a bit more as you would expect, but the average is a hodler. I sincerely hope no one finds a legitimate negative reason for hashrate holding solid versus a 10 - 30 GHS variation per TH. When I see a miner sold to be 7.8 and it does 7.6 to 7.65 to 7.5 constantly bouncing around different average speeds it can get a little frustrating shelling out $2,500 bucks, but hey it is mining, it is a gamble. Believe it or not I do not point out every little thing about anyone's miner.
But yeah, please no one find a reason for this anomaly. It would break my heart and no one wants to see a giant cry
Someone in the marketplace subforum mentioned people are mining with every miner they have at the moment due to current BTC pricing. I better go mod and load up some S3s I was bout to sell so I can keep up with the Jones's, or, am I supposed to say the Kardashian's at this point in pop culture?
One last thing, and while trivial, I do expect better from our news, and what I assume is a news sit used by many people.
In the BW article they state this:
In a Bitcoin Magazine exclusive, BW was introduced to the community. Now it wants impact that same community.
"Now it wants impact".
May I buy a vowel please? How about a T? or, maybe an O?
You will never see me correct the spelling or grammar of anyone here or on any forum, mine is nowhere close to above average, much less right on, but man, surely they have copy editors, or at a minimum BW.com would proof it and request a change. WE need Professional people in our bitcoin communities. People who work at least 14 hours per day, 6 days a week, 362 days a year until they have things rolling with tha homies. They need to have a different person than who does the work, check that person's work. You shouldn't ever rely on one person to check their own work before it hits the streets. Just my two pops for the evening.
...and just to make sure there are not any doubts...
I said my S7 is running well and I think the S7 I received is not only the most efficient, but the most professional looking and operating Bitmain miner I have ran to date. For a small nano farmer like me this isn't a decent size sample from a large farm, but it is a large amount of data being compared from a small amount of miners and from someone who logs, watches, compares, and records a variety of information from every miner in my farm at least once per day.
Glad to see more people are receiving their remaining B1, 2?, and B3 orders. I sincerely hope people keep posting their results. We really need to see a large sample of every situation. Let us hear you if your units are running great like Prelude's, or, if not we need to hear those specifics as well.
A guy can dream, and if by some small miracle another company steps to the plate, lets have a decent sample posted here in the forum to help each other make more informed decisions.
