Topic: [closed] USA/Canada Buy #1 193/50] ASICMiner Erupter USB 2.03496 each @ 5 units - page 17. (Read 52627 times)

I've received payment for 5 items, but not yet sure who it's from... please PM me.

tempestb; 1; 2.2148

Sender:  15V96ct1qcy8sVE9GxEpWzwDVwdKf6JnDU
Transaction ID: 4385dca477511f1b64486eff02306fdfa7dbf0a4c695387cb4f698ed7f426756

Damn, I was totally ready to pony up BTC10.1748 for 5 Avalons, lol  .  I wish more people would get in on this, I don't think I'm holding up sales by not chipping in my BTC to buy 1 unit, however I am on a fundraising binge and hopefully will be able to stack another 10 - 20 orders on to the unit (I don't know if demand wasn't high enough or if people just don't like paying for products upfront via non-escrow means, feel free to leave a comment if you have passed over this group buy for any reason other than lack of funds).

Currently I'm selling some coding/illustration services in preparation of E3 (in many circles this is known as the "1 month scramble"... it's also known by other terms but they are rather crude; keep BCT clean!  ) to some companies/developers/friends/etc.  While they would almost never consider paying me $2,400 in fiat US currency to help in adding details to an existing illustrated cardboard stand (one of my assignments), if they have been involved with Bitcoin for a while - which a surprising number of game developers are - then BTC20 doesn't seem like much if it saves them a few days worth of work, especially if they have 20 - 30 other tasks they need to get done.

Good luck Tranz and I'll try to get the word out to the adafruit community as well as a few of the good hackerspaces in the D.C. Metro Area (okay there are only two good ones and you know who you are  ).  Until then, gf just got out of the shower so now it's my turn to rinse off before we go out to complete our day off together with movie then dinner (didn't really know what to see so we picked "Iron Man 3" as it seemed to be the best movie out that we hadn't seen yet).  She doesn't know this but I made reservations for Flemming's in Baltimore a few weeks back... I've been to a few of their locations, each time I've had the best steak ever.  I don't want to start a food war over who makes the best steaks but if you are in the U.S. I highly suggest you check out their locations and at least eat there once.  Oops, movie is starting in 45mins, better scoot!

typo. fixed.

Great! You did say Avalon though?  My question was more about ASCIMiner, I didn't see what their projected ship date is? Do you happen to know?

I intend to get these out to people no longer than 1 day after I receive them.  I'm going to have everything ready as far as labels and boxes and packaging material and will be ready to ship immediately upon receipt from ASCIMiner.  For example, if the delivery gets here in the AM, I have till 7 PM to ship as many as I can that same day.  if the shipment gets here in the afternoon, I'll probably finish shipping the next day.  I will have help to repackage and ship out so this won't be a 1 man operation.

I am interested in this as well. At least one, maybe up to 5. I'll have to buy some BTC.

Question? After you order what is the time to ship? Are we looking at weeks or months to I get this in my grubby little hand?

Step right up and get your sticks...

a 7970 mining + reselling pay for itself in 2 months(you even make profit lol), much faster than anything else, right now

the math

buy at 400, mine for two months=220(minus 120 bills), sell at =350
total=450

I've sold used 7970s for anything from 300 to 350.  That's not when "everyone is selling" them though.

I think the key thing here is power usage.  If you have expensive electricity, these will pay for themselves quickly if you swap em with your 7970s.  And they'll generate profit longer.  However, once difficulty gets really really high, you'll be stuck with unsellable items.  Your call as to whether that works for you or not.

M

Can you really get 75% from a mined out vid card?  That's an honest question, actually, since I simply don't know.  After seeing how miners run these things I would not touch one with a 10' pole as a buyer for actually running a monitor.  As for mining, it seems GPU mining is going the way of the waterbuffalo even at today's BTC prices.  I suppose there are always alt coins, but still I just cannot wrap my head around someone paying 75%.

I'm thinking about going in on this... I just can't wrap my head around spending this much for so little hashing.

I mean from my perspective - I'd make more money buying a bunch of 7970s and reselling them for 75% of purchase price in a couple months.

ROI is what... ~6 months? So make that 9 after the 30% increase in difficulty that's coming.

I'll think about it some more.

 

we will be up to 50-55 units with your order, with 245-250 to go.  we have time and momentum as orders like yours start to come in.  Besides, all else fails, you get your bitcoins back. no loss for you. shall I take your order then?

I imagine that Canary is having the same problem I am, people actually need to put in orders instead of wait to see if others will do it first.

If I were you, I would put in your orders and others may do the same.

I'm in the US and I'm interested in buying 20-25 units, but you are so far from the required 300 units.  It looks like none of the other buying groups have received new orders in a few days.

You're welcome to order 1 USB device using this formula: C = (N * 1.99)+ 0.2248) : 1*1.99+0.2248= BTC2.2148

I only have enough coin to buy a single unit, not a 5 batch (heh believe me, I'd love to grab 5 - 10 of these guys and spread them across a few powered hubs) so I won't waste your time unless this changes drastically.  Thanks for taking on the duties of being in charge of a group buy and this really is why I love (most,  ) of the BCT community.  I'm in Washington D.C. and while I do frequent Chicago 2x a year, my first trip was a couple months back and my 2nd isn't until October (otherwise I have a good friend that is a 3rd-year resident at Northwestern, works in the Cardiac Unit, and I'm sure he'd have no trouble popping out one of my kidneys, then we could work out the exchange rate in Bitcoin  ).

I have set up another group-buy at https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/closed-group-buy-batch-one-asicminer-block-erupter-usb-international-201577.

This is an International one so it is more expensive but it is available to all of us that don't live in the US/Canada and Europe.

Neil

EDIT: Anyone in the US/Canada and Europe is welcome though.

Here's one of the better analysis I've come across on the topic: http://organofcorti.blogspot.com/2013/04/914-asic-earnings-23-april-2013.html
I highly recommend reading all of the posts on this blog, very informative.  making an assumption of 500,000 chips *282 MHs and going with it is kinda tough, cause nothing has ever happened AS ASSUMED with bitcoin and mining from what ive seen so far.  but current 72THs will get increased. the difficulty is projected to go up 90 times?  Im thinking GPUs are done in the next few months.  the faster one can switch to ASICs the better off one will be.  The longer the wait, the larger the missed opportunity is.  there's also a sub-forum for speculation here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=57.0  where a lot of this info is discussed.

RedComet; 5; 9.95 btc (local pickup)

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