Avalon 4 mini 25G-30G @12W Home /office miner Discussion Thread - page 2.

-droid-

legendary

Activity: 1050

Merit: 1001

Quote from: Ecnad on August 18, 2015, 04:35:13 PM

Quote from: -droid- on August 18, 2015, 04:27:05 PM

Quote from: dunand on August 18, 2015, 04:25:29 PM

Quote from: -droid- on August 18, 2015, 04:20:44 PM

i just bought 2 Avalon 4.1's for the same price as 4 of these mini's

no brainer to me

Where did you buy the 4.1?

got them from holyscott @ holybitcoin.com, hes got them listed with a temp image of an sp20, but i can assure you they are avalon 4.1's

Real good guy too, have bought from him twice, great service.

yeah he has great communication, available at all hours (mostly) to answer any questions and such

Ecnad

sr. member

Activity: 311

Merit: 250

Quote from: -droid- on August 18, 2015, 04:27:05 PM

Quote from: dunand on August 18, 2015, 04:25:29 PM

Quote from: -droid- on August 18, 2015, 04:20:44 PM

i just bought 2 Avalon 4.1's for the same price as 4 of these mini's

no brainer to me

Where did you buy the 4.1?

got them from holyscott @ holybitcoin.com, hes got them listed with a temp image of an sp20, but i can assure you they are avalon 4.1's

Real good guy too, have bought from him twice, great service.

-droid-

legendary

Activity: 1050

Merit: 1001

Quote from: dunand on August 18, 2015, 04:25:29 PM

Quote from: -droid- on August 18, 2015, 04:20:44 PM

i just bought 2 Avalon 4.1's for the same price as 4 of these mini's

no brainer to me

Where did you buy the 4.1?

got them from holyscott @ holybitcoin.com, hes got them listed with a temp image of an sp20, but i can assure you they are avalon 4.1's

dunand

hero member

Activity: 637

Merit: 502

Quote from: -droid- on August 18, 2015, 04:20:44 PM

i just bought 2 Avalon 4.1's for the same price as 4 of these mini's

no brainer to me

Where did you buy the 4.1?

-droid-

legendary

Activity: 1050

Merit: 1001

yeah wth are they smoking? this price seems insane for such a novelty item, i was considering one or two for the office desk but screw that.. i just bought 2 Avalon 4.1's for the same price as 4 of these mini's

no brainer to me

sidehack

legendary

Activity: 3416

Merit: 1865

Curmudgeonly hardware guy

Novak was just comparing this product to our Compac stick. With stock USB power, nine sticks (at $225) will run you about 75GH off about 25W and be dead silent. Or if you crank 'em on a decent hub you could do that with four sticks (at $100) and a light fan for about 30W. And the Compac is probably the worst dollars-per-gigahash miner currently being manufactured, because there's a separate VRM and USB interface and LEDs and oscillator and IO LDOs and heatsink per chip and it's still better than the Mini in every category except "has its own case".

I'd buy one of these boxes if it was about $50, mostly to play with. More'n $200 for it is retarded, when you could buy a pair of S3 with PSU for about the same and get twelve times the hashrate and similar efficiency and noise.

philipma1957

legendary

Activity: 4326

Merit: 8950

'The right to privacy matters'

Quote from: wh00per on August 18, 2015, 12:39:10 PM

I don't buy toys in 500+ numbers

Packaged as they are, it's way better than a chili board, where I had a ton of wires and a PC running the mining software. I previously bought chili at 0.75 BTC from MrTeal. Given the current date/time .. these are 2 years late and way more expensive for the controller and casing they come with..

I think they don't have a controller and plug into a usb 2 port. so your pc or rasp pi is the controller.

but the pricing as shown by a screen shot of a letter to our fellow miner from Russia ------------- Rabinovitch (Sp?) makes them something I like but won't buy.

At 100 it would be over priced but slap to my mining pc point it at ck solo pool and in a year or two maybe I get a block (not likely ) at 235 it is a no go.

that extra 135 in price = 45 months of mining it if I use 23 kwatts a month at 13 cents.

I can buy an s-3 for 125 downclock it to 300gh and be better off.

wh00per

hero member

Activity: 572

Merit: 500

I don't buy toys in 500+ numbers

Packaged as they are, it's way better than a chili board, where I had a ton of wires and a PC running the mining software. I previously bought chili at 0.75 BTC from MrTeal. Given the current date/time .. these are 2 years late and way more expensive for the controller and casing they come with..

philipma1957

legendary

Activity: 4326

Merit: 8950

'The right to privacy matters'

Quote from: jekecoin on August 18, 2015, 11:38:07 AM

Quote from: philipma1957 on August 18, 2015, 08:46:42 AM

Quote from: jekecoin on August 18, 2015, 07:54:57 AM

anyone know the price of this miner?

they seem to be 235 each if you order 500 of them.

basically insanely overpriced.

I tried to do a group buy but price is too high

read this thread:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/i-am-judging-interest-in-a-group-buy-of-the-avalon-mini-1114143

That is too much for a toy Sad

yeah it is just too much to pay for it.

jekecoin

sr. member

Activity: 427

Merit: 250

Quote from: philipma1957 on August 18, 2015, 08:46:42 AM

Quote from: jekecoin on August 18, 2015, 07:54:57 AM

anyone know the price of this miner?

they seem to be 235 each if you order 500 of them.

basically insanely overpriced.

I tried to do a group buy but price is too high

read this thread:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/i-am-judging-interest-in-a-group-buy-of-the-avalon-mini-1114143

That is too much for a toy Sad

philipma1957

legendary

Activity: 4326

Merit: 8950

'The right to privacy matters'

Quote from: jekecoin on August 18, 2015, 07:54:57 AM

anyone know the price of this miner?

they seem to be 235 each if you order 500 of them.

basically insanely overpriced.

I tried to do a group buy but price is too high

read this thread:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/i-am-judging-interest-in-a-group-buy-of-the-avalon-mini-1114143

Tigggger

legendary

Activity: 1098

Merit: 1000

Quote from: jekecoin on August 18, 2015, 07:54:57 AM

anyone know the price of this miner?

Yes, see my post about 5 up ^^^

Finksy

legendary

Activity: 1022

Merit: 1003

All I can say is this is typical of Avalon.

jekecoin

sr. member

Activity: 427

Merit: 250

anyone know the price of this miner?

QuintLeo

legendary

Activity: 1498

Merit: 1030

The only alt coins worth mining, IME, are Scrypt, X11, and POSSIBLY SHA256 merge-minable coins like Namecoin. Everything else has way too small of a market to be worth wasting time on IME.

At $200+, I see there being NO market for this thing except for folks that like expen$$$ive toys to play with.

Blockhunter

hero member

Activity: 871

Merit: 505

Founder of Incakoin

Quote from: TheRealSteve on August 16, 2015, 07:00:54 AM

Quote from: Blockhunter on August 16, 2015, 06:36:48 AM

I'd have to say this is more geared around alt coins?

Try finding a Bitcoin mining-compatible altcoin that's worth the bother that can't also already be merge-mined (like namecoin). No Bitcoin mining gear is built around altcoins specifically, and hardware that is built for altcoins is incompatible with mining Bitcoin (e.g. scrypt hardware for litecoin/dogecoin)

I agree with you completely but still wonder why the effort for another overpriced toy really.
I can't see a hec of a lot of sales to make production effort worthwhile :/

TheRealSteve

hero member

Activity: 686

Merit: 500

FUN > ROI

Quote from: Blockhunter on August 16, 2015, 06:36:48 AM

I'd have to say this is more geared around alt coins?

Try finding a Bitcoin mining-compatible altcoin that's worth the bother that can't also already be merge-mined (like namecoin). No Bitcoin mining gear is built around altcoins specifically, and hardware that is built for altcoins is incompatible with mining Bitcoin (e.g. scrypt hardware for litecoin/dogecoin)

Blockhunter

hero member

Activity: 871

Merit: 505

Founder of Incakoin

I'd have to say this is more geared around alt coins?

kingcolex

sr. member

Activity: 254

Merit: 1258

Quote from: philipma1957 on August 14, 2015, 09:41:44 AM

Quote from: kingcolex on August 14, 2015, 09:22:07 AM

Quote from: philipma1957 on August 14, 2015, 07:21:17 AM

Quote from: QuintLeo on August 14, 2015, 04:51:14 AM

78GH at it's high setting.

But unless they price it under $40 WITH shipping, forget ever managing to ROI it unless you're on free electric. Perhaps $50 if you have 3c/KWH or cheaper electric.

Very late to the game with that generation of chip.

these are for free power situations.

A dorm
An office
A hotel room.

I read the review and they are a bit too loud 51db.

use chrome and google translate:

http://www.cybtc.com/article-1880-1.html

I advise against office mining though, I wouldn't risk my job over mining and being accused of stealing electricity when IT calls your boss about unusual activity.

12 watts on low 30 watts on high.

this is meant as a lotto type device.

Not the same as running a few avalon 4.1's

My argument would be I like the white noise it makes I rather hear that then a radio.

But I do agree too many of these will cause an issue.

I wouldn't be worried about noise or wattage use though just more about the packets going out, definitely great for college, hotels, possibly even car mining (convertor and some cars have built in wifi now).

Tigggger

legendary

Activity: 1098

Merit: 1000

Quote from: QuintLeo on August 14, 2015, 04:51:14 AM

78GH at it's high setting.

But unless they price it under $40 WITH shipping, forget ever managing to ROI it unless you're on free electric. Perhaps $50 if you have 3c/KWH or cheaper electric.

Very late to the game with that generation of chip.

Avalon, delivering hardware 6 months after the competition and massively overpriced since their very first machine.

Buy 500 of them and you get them for the bargain price $235 + shipping each.

I expect that once the OP has added on his profit margin and shipping they'll be $300 yeah sign me up why would I want an S5 for the same amount lol

Topic: Avalon 4 mini 25G-30G @12W Home /office miner Discussion Thread - page 2. (Read 4003 times)