Bitfury project developing in good pace. Giving chips for testing for free resulted in many different PCB designs and now it difficult to count number of available boards : 1chip usb, 6 chips, 8 chips and 16 chips and even more.
Private pool is funtioning and giving 8trh at the moment
https://ghash.io/Chips for sale available 1 btc per chip and less for larger amounts. Naked PCB available and PCBs with all parts soldered available too, Just solder chips your self and you are good to go.
That may be a good news for those who ordered Bitfury and not so good for those who own 1st gen chips, as Bitfury going to add 170 trh to network very soon.
October - November Scene is going empty pockets of miners. Paradigm shift, currently cost of mining devices and ROI was one of main restricting factors for entering mining. From October onwards we may have many choices, available to ship now and on dirt cheap prices. Avalon 55nm devices promised to be shipped direct without pre orders from mid October and it will have server blade design (very nice). Bitfury second batch mid October too and in November we will have new chips from ASICminer seem to be 55nm too.
Second batch of Bitfury promissed to be continuous one. Owners of Bitfury chips very eager to sale them now when it still command high price, because when difficulty will jump to 100-150 mils, no body will be interested to buy them at all.
Future is bright for those who has money to spend on new mining devices. And not so bright for those who planing to recover their investments from 1st gen chips. Lukely for me ASICminer are offering compensation for 1st and 2nd auctions blades and I may have opportunity to convert my blades into new 55nm devices in November.
