I was excited about these until now... unless I’m missing something. I just did some tablecloth math, and I’m not sure what I want these instead of more s9s- even at their higher price. I was assuming these will go for $1800 like someone said. That makes it like a bit faster break even, but longer term the s9 seems more profitable still to the tune of about $1k/yr. Am I wrong? I really like the Avalons better but performance/ROI matters.
You cant look at the raw profit numbers when comparing the two miners. You have to look at labor costs and downtime due to hardware failures. S9 carries about a 10% risk of failure in the first 6 months versus an Avalon that is around 1%. Also this is the Avalon 7 thread, the Avalon 8 was just released and is much more comparable to the antminer.
