Wow, interesting, is it an innovation from Italy?
I'm not Nerd and also not Miner at all but for professionals, it seems to be an really interesting opportunity to do research about mining and it's no need to organize an expencive miner from China to study it because your described veariant is all meant to address it if a professional wants to do a research or a study. Maybe your topic will have better audience in experts section of Bitcointalk like "Development & Technical Discussion".
For an innovation viewpoint, it's an attractive consideration even when it's not economically intended to generate much coin. But if I understand your post correctly, it is not intended to engage in profit, just educational and innovalive purpose, while BitAxe is intended to generate a profit of mined coin?
Thanks for the suggestion.
I will abide to moderators about the more correct board where to post this.
Regarding profitability, you are right, Nerdminer is not profitable, and all the "profit" comes from the knowledge, not the sats.
I will add some excel computation later.
Also bitaxe is not profitable, as it is orders or magnitude less efficient than a modern ASICs.
The only relevant difference is that the chip is an actual ASIC, not a generic chip as for the S3