How many S3 are you planning to buy? - page 3.

dropt

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Quote from: taipo on June 23, 2014, 03:47:56 PM

In reality, many miners would probably just look at their available wallet balance ( which should be climbing since the S1 went out of stock ), divide the available balance by how many S3's they can get, and deal with the PSU and customs costs when the S3s arrive in the country.....

I think at a certain point miners should stop spending every last bitcent on more HW and start saving what little BTC they can.

taipo

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Kia ora!

In reality, many miners would probably just look at their available wallet balance ( which should be climbing since the S1 went out of stock ), divide the available balance by how many S3's they can get, and deal with the PSU and customs costs when the S3s arrive in the country.....

Tupsu

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I bought today one Antminer S2 for 2.457BTC and do not intend to buy any S3 .
I need a future 15 sets of the S2 upgrade version Hash Boards, not the obviously overpriced S3.

Of course, I also look forward to buy some Antminer S4.

nightyj

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Bitmaintech are always the best investment so I will by the more I can

CTL_ALT_DEL

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Maybe Four, eventually; I would be more likely to buy S1 update kits at first. Any word on price/availability for those?

Regards,
JR

Pjones

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Interesting results so far, i won't buy unless it's the lowest priced ghs, but if you look at how Bitmain have priced their products in the past, the first batch pricing probably isn't going to be as low as it was for s1, but maybe slightly lower than s2.

Maybe 90 days after the first batch, we'll start to see the aggressive pricing, maybe sooner if more people held out for faster ROI.

TheJuice

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Depends entirely on price. It's going to have to be sub 0.5 btc.

Xer0

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°^°

over 9k

s1gs3gv

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ex uno plures

At 20% and $.15 they barely make .8 BTC before they go negative on operating cost at current BTC exchange rate

lowbander80

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Quote from: s1gs3gv on June 22, 2014, 08:41:43 AM

With: Estimated Next Difficulty: 16,947,623,526 (+25.89%)

Bitmain will need to think hard about how they price the S3 if they want the product to succeed.

I'd love to have a good reason to buy some.

Also important to be close to competision as rockminer is close to 1btc for 450-480ghs and little more
so the S3 has to be close to this

s1gs3gv

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With: Estimated Next Difficulty: 16,947,623,526 (+25.89%)

Bitmain will need to think hard about how they price the S3 if they want the product to succeed.

I'd love to have a good reason to buy some.

philipma1957

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'The right to privacy matters'

I put none. Since you put at s-2 prices. If it was at the best s-1 price I would buy 10 or more.

Note the best s-1 price I paid was 173 usd an s-1 which was under 1 dollar a gh.

The best s-2 price I have seen is about 1.40 usd a gh. that would be a no go price for me.

Trammel

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I will definitely get 1 or 2. But will they really require 4 PCI-e connectors for their power? Can you get a PSU with 8 PCI-e connectors?

Slaine

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One or two, but only when they drop to a sensible price and my S1 is only any use for alts.

sebdude420

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I'm going to get as many as I can!

cozk

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Probably none depending on the price.

Pjones

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Since Bitmain delayed the launch by about a week, and there are some speculations around the number of first batch units, it would be interesting to see what the demand looks like.

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