The more hardware HashFast sells, the more
You should wait and see what HashFast's next chip will do before offering erroneous advice.
They likely won't have another chip design for years.
Fine, you go ahead and
assume facts not in evidence.
Care to make a wager?
I'll put 1BTC on HashFast's second chip taping out in less than 365 days from now (9/8/14 or sooner).
Chicken? Yah, that's what I thought!
ALWAYS BET ON iCE...They might have revisions of their current chip. They might get slightly better performance. But it won't be worth it to do a 20nm chip or radically change the design, or something like that.
And anyway, I don't see why there's any reason to think IceDrill will have any "dibs" on chips that no one else will have access too. HashFast didn't even offer them a free MPP the way they did with the first Babyjet customers. So they actually got a worse deal then people who bought babyjets and will likely get extra compensating chips.
Will HashFast make plenty of money? Of course they will. Will HashFast's customers make a lot of money? maybe they'll see a positive ROI in the first months if they're lucky. Long term, though HashFast will take the lion's share of the profits, not their customers, and not IceDrill shareholders.
Ultimately, IceDrill is just one of HashFast's customers.
