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Hi, we will take a look in to that

GAW

Is it perhaps possible to show the amount of blades still 'in stock' so when someone orders, they are sure to be in the first batch?

I remember your old shop had this feature as I was one of the first to order a hosted 10pack at the time you had 15 of these 'in stock'.

Thanks

Good to know.  I was very happy with the way you handled my order, but cryptocoin equipment vendors have bitten the hands that feed them enough times that we are all a bit paranoid.  I would suggest erring on the side of transparency next time.

Sorry about that. Please don't take it personally.

While I can not go in to detail, there was a miscommunication at Gridseed with another vendor that caused an issue on the Blade announcements. I decided to play it safe and remove all promotions and post until the misunderstanding was resolved.

Its resolved, and the Blade is now here!

New Gridseed Asic Blade is Here!

http://www.gawminers.com/5200-kh-s-gridseed-asic-blade-miner/

We get our first one batch tomorrow (4/4/14) so we will be uploading our official pictures then! We will also be posting a complete walk through if the Blade and setup guides

Buy it now as there will only be a limited quantity available! We will offer also this with our free hosting! You will be online and hashing the same day!

PS all existing customers get priority in the orders and free overnight shipping!

They probably hired Ms. Streisand to run their marketing department.

Probably got in trouble for showing before enough Gridseed singles had been sold

I noticed that myself. I'm wondering if they announced that blade a little too early and got their hand slapped by the vendor or a competitor?

I'm looking forward to getting my miners tomorrow.  

Where is all the info for the new ASIC Blades I saw mentioned.. That disappearing without a word from GAW seems odd. Please give us ALL an update about what is going on over there at GAW. Thanks!

Got my second order today, very quick delivery (paid for priority) and everything was packaged nicely!  Thanks GAWMiners!

What I meant regarding overclocking is that you can push these chips to 950-1000 MHz with a bit of a voltage tweak. Now if the blade had that option without soldering (e.g. a software adjustment, or at least a jumper) that would be a significant advantage.

As a word of caution to people who received "industrial" style power supply in their package - power supply has input voltage switch 110/220V and included setup instruction doesn't mention it.

Mine was set to incorrect one, glad that I checked before plugging it in.  Make sure you check yours   and check and double check output voltage and correct barrel connector wiring.

Same chips are used so you can do the math regarding OC'ing.

Personally I would have thought the blade would be a bit cheaper because the components used are costing significantly less than with the 'pods'.

Less heatsinks, less fans, less pcb, etc.

Take a screenshot and post an image

Your math is probably right, profitability is marginal at the current rates. And the blade is not priced competitively, the "cupcakes" at $170 are <$0.5 per KH/s, the blade is more than that, unless it overclocks like crazy.

I'm hoping that someone can help point out the flaw in my "man maths" as I want to buy one of these units but I can't make the numbers stack up and so I assume I've made a mistake and hence I hope someone can point it out.

Using the formula
(MH x P x BTC x A) - C = profit over 1 year

where
MH = power of the unit in MH/s - 5.2 for the new blades
P = Profitability (BTC per MH/s per day) - currently running at around 0.004-0.005 at Waffle Pool
BTC = Price of BTC.  Here I'm going to assume 2 levels; 300 as the worst case and 500 as the current ceiling.
A = Availability - I'm going to assume 10 days down time in the year which might be a bit aggressive but these things are meant to be fairly "fiddle free" so I shouldn't have to mess around with them to the same extent that I do with my GPU rigs
C = Cost to purchase.  Note I am not including electricity etc as I am using the hosted model however it would be fairly easy to add it in for other options.

I am basically varying the level of P to check out how low the market can drop before the units fail to make a profit in a year.  A year is a long time in BTC mining it seems to that's another worry.  I am expecting profitability to take a hit when the big scrypt ASIC units hit and there seems to have been a drift down in this value already.  I am not sure that I subscribe to the theory that it will drift down to a point where massive numbers of people drop out and the rise as a result as I suspect people will continue to mine after it is no longer profitable through a combination of hope (that it will turn around), inertia (can't be bothered), ignorance (don't know where the threshold is) and faith (belief in crypto is more important than cash + mine and hold).

As you can see from the numbers below (converted into £ as I am in the UK) at the lower end of the BTC value the blades don't make anything and at the upper end the market only has to drop to 0.0035 before they fail to make money!  Where am I going wrong or is buying one of these basically a $3K bet that the market will rise?

Thanks

Miles

compared to today's profitability	Prof level	Grid Min	Grid max	Blade(GAW) Min	Blade(GAW) Max
1.25	0.005	-£420.07	£1607.17	-£133.25	£931.57
1.125	0.0045	-£724.16	£1100.36	-£292.97	£665.36
1	0.004	-£1028.24	£593.55	-£452.69	£399.16
0.875	0.0035	-£1332.33	£86.74	-£612.41	£132.96
0.75	0.003	-£1636.42	-£420.07	-£772.13	-£133.25
0.625	0.0025	-£1940.50	-£926.88	-£931.86	-£399.45
0.5	0.002	-£2244.59	-£1433.69	-£1091.58	-£665.65
0.375	0.0015	-£2548.68	-£1940.50	-£1251.30	-£931.86
0.25	0.001	-£2852.76	-£2447.31	-£1411.02	-£1198.06
0.125	0.0005	-£3156.85	-£2954.12	-£1570.75	-£1464.26
0.0625	0.00025	-£3308.89	-£3207.53	-£1650.61	-£1597.37
0.03125	0.000125	-£3384.91	-£3334.23	-£1690.54	-£1663.92
0.015625	0.0000625	-£3422.92	-£3397.58	-£1710.50	-£1697.19

Edited to correctly format the table (done with search and replace in word with some excel formula to sort the £ and red text)

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Thanks for the business !

Are there some instructions for running these things? Is there a forum post or website you guys are working off of? I don't see any instructions on the GAW website.

I bought 5 of the usb hashers at the end of the rush, apparently. I'm having to wait an extra two days for mine, but I did get a decent price on them and GAW did offer a small credit to my account without my asking for not delivering within the 5 days. The ordering was not smooth because of bitcoin gateway problems, but we worked it out in the end. When I called the number, someone answered who was courteous and knowledgeable. That's a big deal, I think. Here's hoping that the hardware is all good and I can get hashing quickly when it arrives.

I WANT One, I Want One!! Are these going to end up being Hosted in the Future also?? Better buy quick people, I have a feeling these are going to sell out quicky. There is an article about them on:

http://cryptomining-blog.com/1855-the-new-gridseed-blade-miner-is-almost-here-for-real-this-time/

HolyScott

Just leaving my feedback for GAW Miners.  I bought 2 miners and just arrived today, was expecting just the miners and to my surprise it included the USB cable and power supply as well.  Great service.

Are the hosted miners down or experiencing issues???   Mine have been completely down now going on 2 hrs.
Ticket opened and got a reply that my account would be flagged (Whatever that means)