Topic: (Sell/Trade)Fuck my 6990, I want a BFL Jalapeno - page 2. (Read 3873 times)

Not everyone has a 6990 either, they're a lot more expensive than Jalapenos and far less effective if energy cost is an issue. Really, right now you either have to be a gamer who happened to buy AMD rather than NVIDIA or to have bought GPUs specifically for mining. You also have to be somewhere where power is cheap.

If anything, ASICs level the playing field because they're such a non-burden when it comes to power, they mean that Europeans can be more competitive and that people don't have to spend $500 on a high-end GPU that they'll never need outside of mining, and put up with unbearable heat and noise, just to be able to get a few BTC.

True, and I totally agree with the fact that ASIC's are ahead of their time and are totally going to kill GPU mining.  Totally sucks, but at least you have the rest of the summer to profitably mine.  In some cases it's not even profitable to GPU mine at the current exchange price depending on your electricity cost.  If the bitcoin started trading for $10 in the near future, well then it would definitely be profitable to mine GPU's before ASIC hits the streets, but in December the mining reward cuts in half, so what happens then?  If no one created an ASIC, or no one is able to deliver one, then it would cost you more in electricity than you would earn in bitcoin anyway.  Of course, the network would adjust itself and if people stopped mining in any large amount the difficulty would go down or the bitcoin value would have to be at least $15 to profit.  But doesn't Vladimir already have ASIC?  So at least now we have some ammo to combat his gear (unless he uses his ASIC profits to buy more ASIC's from BFL or expand his own then we are all doomed).  Another advantage of BFL releasing these is now we will have a network so powerful that a government could not develop their own ASIC and use it as a 51% weapon (unless they bought a bunch of BFL rigs then we are all doomed).  

It all depends on the volume that BFL can make them in.

If they received $250k in orders in 24 hours, and there's still like 3+ months until delivery, there could be a zillion of these out in the wild and the difficulty will get to the point where even these ASIC's might not even be profitable after enough have been made.  

If they produce these in low volume, I guess like now how you can order a BFL Single and wait 50 days for delivery, then there will be a gradual transition in difficulty, but if they are able to ship ALL the pre-orders in one shot, then they will continue to be able to ship in that volume, and then there will be so many produced that even with ASIC's we're doomed.  

I wonder what a BFL Jalepino will be worth when you have it in your hand and people post them [FS] on here at a markup.  

Thats just the thing, I've tried selling it, I havent gotten a "pleasing" offer, Its always a guy trying to get a great deal on a "its used and probly going to break soon 6990, so it's probly only worth $100's If even that, I'd give you parts value for it" <--- clearly just a low baller, But this is the majority for styles of trade chatter..

Nobody wants to pay what i want to get out of it, Wich at this point in time, most likley one of two things:
I trade the 6990+btc for a 7950/70
I trade it for two of the mythical jalepno ASIC usb miners.

You can always sell your graphics card if it's true, which I doubt at those prices.

I am very sorry for this garbled MESS of text.
So hey, Do you have a preorder for a BFL Jalapeno ASIC? Do you have the ability to putdown a preorder?
 I would love to trade off my MSI6990 http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127574 for Two of them.
Heres a thread with some details, I just woke up so im just trying to clean this OP up as quickly as possible https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/wtst-msi-6990-83987

Two jalpeno asic's or http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127667 gets you a 6990! C'mon anyone wanna make a deal? The 6990 is about 7-8 months old now... Is anyone intested in this potential deal? Im trying to get a jalpeno in my hand or That 7950 but my only form of internet money is bitcoins, Wich i mine with my GPU's And once the jalpenos hit the desktops my ability to make any real income off my 6990 or other GPU's will be destroyed, So i dont really have time to save money...

TL;DR https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/wtst-msi-6990-83987


Im just going to lock this now since everyone is saying the same damn thing. 'Thanks' fellow bitcoiners for telling me to take it to ebay. If anyone wants it, PM me Please!