I love the fact that Bitmain always comes through with product and is always working on a new product just as they are releasing one.
I have always believed in home mining and am addicted to it's nature.
But truth be told hardware in the last year hasn't seemed to make the significant leap to pull ahead of the difficulty.
Yes, we can all buy the latest and sell in 2 to 3 months and buy the new hardware.
This just seems to benefit the manufacturers since they always have the hobbyist willing to buy.
I wish from a hobby only standpoint I could keep miners running, but I usually don't have the overhead
for electric costs vs just buying btc outright.
Short story Long, just wish Bitmain could step ahead of the minimal gains in new hardware only to
be obsolete next month. I know this is the way it just is, but can't help think they're r&d has the funds to really
help the home miner and the decentrilization.
I have always believed in home mining and am addicted to it's nature.
But truth be told hardware in the last year hasn't seemed to make the significant leap to pull ahead of the difficulty.
Yes, we can all buy the latest and sell in 2 to 3 months and buy the new hardware.
This just seems to benefit the manufacturers since they always have the hobbyist willing to buy.
I wish from a hobby only standpoint I could keep miners running, but I usually don't have the overhead
for electric costs vs just buying btc outright.
Short story Long, just wish Bitmain could step ahead of the minimal gains in new hardware only to
be obsolete next month. I know this is the way it just is, but can't help think they're r&d has the funds to really
help the home miner and the decentrilization.
what is your power cost?
S1's faired better at the start of last year. Just trying to keep the btc mined without trading it in to pay expenses. I don't mind paying
additional $250 or $300 in pud costs but why when you mine less than that in btc.
get some S5 sell off the S3 it will be i was talking to some one from Canada he ( hes a home miner ) told me he has to upgrade to S5 from S3 the power is not worth it any more with S 3 and 8 S5 should give you 901.13 $ A month before deductions and Next Difficulty [estimated] @ 835.69 $ at stock speeds if did the math right . at 9 cents per KW it wont go that much higher .but i wish the Miner would last a little longer may be 7 to 9 month over 3 go try alt coins its worse im glad there is a company out there like bit main. most the lite coin miner are way worse and very little of them beyond KNC i have nothing good to say about them . and A2. I know one or two who mine and pay there power cost each month with the sell of bitcoins they told me it works out for them that way no real money out of there packets they said they are still able to keep a nice amount of BTC on hand even after paying there power cost each month
I bought 2 of each of the 2 first. Will let you know when I receive the miner! 
. btw these are very nice fans to from time to time i watch for deals on them and i keep one or two on hand if I need it .
