meh... too steep @ 2
BTC, I would be interested in several though @ < 1.2
BTC if they ship before the end of next week.
Nothing personal, I think you have a great design and you're getting fucked by bitfury et al but with all the KNC shipping and HF close the current price won't break even.
http://mining.thegenesisblock.com/a/a0752023cdI don't think there is a miner that you can break even on.
Let's take KNCMiner who is one of the very very few shipping on time.
If you pay with BTC's you can get 550Ghash/s for $4500.
That is $8.18/Ghash. (Note, their boxes so far have quite a few duds. My group buy has theirs running at 350Ghash/s and we are still waiting on an answer back from them after a week.) If you pay with CC it will run you $5,000. (Not a bad way if you are cashless to get BTC! LOL)
A Bitfury 8 chip (at 80Ghash/s I hope, haven't heard back yet from Barntech at what they are running at and how overclockable they have gotten them.) is $400.
That is $5 per Ghash. If we are only going to get 64Ghash (no overclocking at all), then it is
$6.25 per Ghash.So, if you convert Bitfury to Jupiter, and order 550Ghash/s, you get this:
If 80Ghash/s is delivered - $2750 for 550 Ghash/s. An almost 40% savings.
If 64Ghash/s is delivered - $3438 for 550 Ghash/s. An almost 25% savings.So, my question to you is, where can you get a much better deal? Might be out there, but this is a pretty good price for a delivery in the next 2 weeks or so.
At this stage in the game, mining is not about breaking even unfortunately. But a lot of that will depend on where BTC goes.
IAS
I agree IAS, I feel no matter who we buy from, we will be likely to run at a loss. KNC have done well, but the rush has been telling as the firmware is patchy at best. I don`t know about you, but if I pay 4 grand plus on one product, i expect a certain quality.
Also, with each 8 chip miner board running at say 21.6 gh\s (thats a steady 2.7 per chip x
for a 4 board system in a mini plane, thats 86.4 gh\s.
having got my hands on a bf based miner, I`m confident that Barn et al will have the chips running at 2.7gh\s each without too much issue.
