antminer is at 1.9 btc for 190GH(after easy OC), that's exactly 0.01 BTC/GH. cointerra is 2000GH for $6000 or 6.6BTC, that's ~ 0.0033BTC. So the very first shipments from cointerra will have a 3X discount to the current market price.
Who paid 6.6 BTC for the first batch???
okie fail on my part, was the first batch not $6000 or btc/usd wasn't around $1000? i don't remember been a long time :/
Both, first batch was 14,000 each and btc was around $120ish
Luckily I didn't spent any btc on the first batch. Still I'm an idiot for many other reasons involving having mined two hundred btc years ago and selling to pay for my GPUs when I was broke. Damn me.
Not exactly. I think everyone who bought the first batch seems to have been offered two systems instead as a comp for not getting their systems in dec. One in first batch and one in a later batch. Some who switched from dec to jan earlier may even have two jan systems for the same price as their initial payment.
I was only providing the correct price for the December batch since he was under the impression that they were $6000 when they were $14,000 (and that was after a price drop from an initial price that was higher), but you certainly right that people with December orders were offered an extra system to be delivered in a later batch.
The people who switched from the december batch to the january batch are no longer in the first batch though by definition so it's not correct to take their second batch pricing as first batch pricing. They also did get a refund of the difference since two second batch units are actually cheaper than one first batch unit.
Regardless I think the real point of his question was to figure out whether someone would ROI if they had paid for a first batch unit entirely in bitcoins. Given that a first batch unit would have cost about 120 bitcoins or so it will likely be somewhat tough even with a second unit being delivered in a later batch, though it might not be impossible over a year or so. From what I can tell most people were offered March units as their second unit, I don't know if some particularly large purchasers were able to get earlier second units than that.
I don't think you should take my pricing explanation as some sort of Cointerra bash aerobatic, I'm obviously a big fan since I sent in another much larger order after they offered the March unit as compensation for the delays but in retrospect I think the first batch wasn't really well priced in comparison to the 2nd January batch. Cointerra should probably have just given the first orders January pricing by default (or two units and a partial refund) or something when they dropped the price so much, especially since they had originally said there would be price protection in the early days but of course that only applied to price drops in the same batch-though at this point it sounds a lot like the December batch and January batch are almost the same batch in practicality. If I could go back and switch my December unit to two January units when they dropped the price I would for obvious reasons.
