Yep, buy only what they can ship immediately. With the current and coming difficulty levels you can't afford a delay with unfinished pre-order product.
Profitability is going down even more, just because more people are dividing that 25BTC per block with all their shiny new ASICs.
Topic: Where are the new Custom Hardware vendors? - page 4. (Read 3415 times)
Preorder money dried up because of market over-saturation and spiking difficulty. It's probably not possible to raise enough preorder funds to cover NRE costs.
I suspect we'll even see some of the current ASIC vendors close shop in the next couple of months and some preorders may just fizzle out before they can come to market. It will make the bASIC fiasco look like a picnic. Prepare for the coming bloodbath.
I suspect we'll even see some of the current ASIC vendors close shop in the next couple of months and some preorders may just fizzle out before they can come to market. It will make the bASIC fiasco look like a picnic. Prepare for the coming bloodbath.
Call me curious, but where are new vendors? BFL is still in wtf territory, people are trying to recoup from their Avalon investments, Bitfury is raging but not really profitable, KNC is fixing their issues but proved very sloppy in their roll out, and a few other are close to shipping but sans hardware in hands for verification, but if you looked around here a few months back it seemed like there was a new ASIC vendor popping up every other week. Even AM has fallen out of the spotlight and is more of a footnote in mining (or a joke on the group buy section).
We've seen the "must happen" rise in price to make people feel better about their hardware, but what we're not seeing is what comes next. If it takes 3-6 months from design to implementation and delivery, nobody is talking about the February-May time-frame next year whatsoever other than current companies who will be selling the same exact machines at a lower profit margin.
Since I haven't been around since the days of CPU mining being viable, what do the old-timers think about this? Is this about what it was like in the GPU era, a slew of excitement followed by a long, dark path where nobody knows what comes next because nothing really pans out value-wise?
We've seen the "must happen" rise in price to make people feel better about their hardware, but what we're not seeing is what comes next. If it takes 3-6 months from design to implementation and delivery, nobody is talking about the February-May time-frame next year whatsoever other than current companies who will be selling the same exact machines at a lower profit margin.
Since I haven't been around since the days of CPU mining being viable, what do the old-timers think about this? Is this about what it was like in the GPU era, a slew of excitement followed by a long, dark path where nobody knows what comes next because nothing really pans out value-wise?
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