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Topic: Pinidea's X11 ASIC miner (500 MH) - to buy or not to... (Read 10558 times)

legendary
Activity: 1498
Merit: 1030
They may have built out their initial chip alotment and dropped it after *2* other X11 miners of BETTER EFFICIENCY showed up.
Dunno if they'd bother working on a new generation that's competative with the Baikal.

member
Activity: 97
Merit: 10
I was considering that but  ETH may go POS before  I  recoup the  investment mitigated only by the fact the  rig  could  be used for  other  GPU mined coins.

I contacted the Pinidea team yesterday asking who were reputable resellers but haven't heard anything back.

newbie
Activity: 39
Merit: 0
It doesn't look promising.  But if they were to send a test unit to one of our trusted high level legendary members, I'll invest oo.

I thought about buying one a couple months ago but the profit for it has plummeted. For 1500 you're only making $130 profit a month mining dash. You can almost double that with ethereum.
full member
Activity: 228
Merit: 100
It doesn't look promising.  But if they were to send a test unit to one of our trusted high level legendary members, I'll invest oo.
member
Activity: 97
Merit: 10
So this whole thing seemed to fizzle out.

Is there a US based reseller? Anyone actually using a DR2?

legendary
Activity: 1470
Merit: 1114
I think these X11 miners were all scams pretty much. The hashrate went up almost 100% in the last 2 weeks. They were suppose to not produce anymore but they keep making them.


I wouldn't necessarily call it a scam and I think someone would have to be a little naive to believe they would
limit the supply. Furthrmore now that the genie is out of the bottle anyone can build x11 ASIC miners, so it would
be stupid  of Pinidea to just give up the market.

The dramatic drop in x11 profitability will be a bigger factor in the decision to build more.
legendary
Activity: 3808
Merit: 1723
I think these X11 miners were all scams pretty much. The hashrate went up almost 100% in the last 2 weeks. They were suppose to not produce anymore but they keep making them.

The price per BTC/MHS/BTC is like 1/3rd of what it was 2 weeks ago.

legendary
Activity: 2030
Merit: 1076
A humble Siberian miner
Try support(at)pinidea.io or shaoxinjiang(at)pinidea.io.

But they does not reply to e-mails sent to the last address for some time.
full member
Activity: 224
Merit: 100
https://eloncity.io
How does one contact anyone from PinIdea ?
I would like to find out what the shipping costs to South Africa are and if they do ship to South Africa.
legendary
Activity: 2030
Merit: 1076
A humble Siberian miner
I have ordered 10 pcs of these USB miners, but it seems that Pinidea doesn't plan to start ship it out. The promised date was May 24th...
legendary
Activity: 1018
Merit: 1001
I am interested in DU-1 to, but the mining software isn't available :-( on github .

Wolf
legendary
Activity: 2030
Merit: 1076
A humble Siberian miner
So I have ordered 10 of these little USB miners: https://shop.pinidea.io/index.php/product/asic-x11-miner-du-1/

They promise shipping after May 24th.
legendary
Activity: 3808
Merit: 1723
Yeah on that Dash forum, so many people are wanting refunds. I am not surprised. They sold like 200 units and probably mined with another 200 units with their own miners.

legendary
Activity: 2030
Merit: 1076
A humble Siberian miner
Now it seems to be that they're about to release new improved miner: https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/x11-asic-miner-dr-2-coming.8903/.
legendary
Activity: 3808
Merit: 1723
So it pretty much killed the X11 algo.

The hashrate at an all time high and price/mh/btc at an all time low.



newbie
Activity: 13
Merit: 0
Let's wait for the moment they will start sales again, and I'll probably try my luck with this miner.  Wink
Hey we just published a review. http://dashpaymagazine.com/index.php/2016/05/06/unboxing-mining-results-pinidea-dr-1-x11-asic-miner/
legendary
Activity: 2030
Merit: 1076
A humble Siberian miner
Let's wait for the moment they will start sales again, and I'll probably try my luck with this miner.  Wink
legendary
Activity: 1050
Merit: 1000
I am waiting review from people who has used this service, because it is very a little information. I hope there is people will give more information.

exactly that's what everyone should do ... look at their forum / user experience on youtube or another sites and blogs
legendary
Activity: 910
Merit: 1000
I am waiting review from people who has used this service, because it is very a little information. I hope there is people will give more information.
legendary
Activity: 854
Merit: 1000
Interesting review.

I'm sold that it's definitely a working X11 ASIC device, but the engineer in me would tell anyone that this device still needs multiple design enhancements to make it truly mass-marketable.  The key here is to see if Pinidea will/can engineer a more robust design that takes into account reports of vulnerable pins, connectors, legs etc.  If they do push out new units with those fixes, we might be on to something here.  

Good start.    I am glad to see that they understand the need to push out units ASAP to the community in order to prove themselves.
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