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Topic: Avalon 4 mini 25G-30G @12W Home /office miner Discussion Thread - page 2. (Read 4000 times)

legendary
Activity: 1050
Merit: 1001
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
sr. member
Activity: 311
Merit: 250
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.
legendary
Activity: 1050
Merit: 1001
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
hero member
Activity: 637
Merit: 502
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?
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
legendary
Activity: 3374
Merit: 1859
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.
legendary
Activity: 4256
Merit: 8551
'The right to privacy matters'
I don't buy toys in 500+ numbers Smiley

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.
hero member
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I don't buy toys in 500+ numbers Smiley

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..
legendary
Activity: 4256
Merit: 8551
'The right to privacy matters'
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.
sr. member
Activity: 427
Merit: 250
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
legendary
Activity: 4256
Merit: 8551
'The right to privacy matters'
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
legendary
Activity: 1098
Merit: 1000
anyone know the price of this miner?

Yes, see my post about 5 up ^^^
legendary
Activity: 1022
Merit: 1003
All I can say is this is typical of Avalon.
sr. member
Activity: 427
Merit: 250
anyone know the price of this miner?
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.
hero member
Activity: 871
Merit: 505
Founder of Incakoin
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 :/
hero member
Activity: 686
Merit: 500
FUN > ROI
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)
hero member
Activity: 871
Merit: 505
Founder of Incakoin
I'd have to say this is more geared around alt coins?
sr. member
Activity: 254
Merit: 1258
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).
legendary
Activity: 1098
Merit: 1000
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
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