Title: ASIC MINERS -- WHICH HORSE TO BET ON? Post by: Miner2049r on January 03, 2014, 07:10:01 PM @ todays exchange & difficulty rates: AlphaTechnology Viper (5Mh/s) priced at US$ 2500 yields < US$ 13500 AlphaTechnology Viper (25Mh/s) priced at US$ 9000 yields < US$ 60000 SluiceBit II (2Mh/s) priced at US$ 2500 yields < US$ 5100 SluiceBit IV (4Mh/s) priced at US$ 4500 yields < US$ 10300 Crypto Industries Osiris (5Mh/s) priced at US$ ???? yields < US$ 13500 Crypto Industries Horus (10Mh/s) priced at US$ ???? yields < US$ 26000 SluiceBit units are clearly out of the running Cryto Industries have not published an MSRP AlphaTechnology have posted public design studies and demonstration video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69P2RHG2pIA I didn't mean for this post to be a shill for the Viper but that's how it shook out at todays rates and news. The only way I could see SB and CI staying in is if they priced their units to be linearly incremental against AT which has no bearing at all on their production costs. Title: Re: ASIC MINERS -- WHICH HORSE TO BET ON? Post by: mikeybit on January 03, 2014, 07:19:09 PM AT posted a video of a FPGA. Still quite a ways off from making a functional ASIC. I would be incredibly shocked if they actually ship before q4 14.
Title: Re: ASIC MINERS -- WHICH HORSE TO BET ON? Post by: kramble on January 03, 2014, 07:28:05 PM I'm going to say none of the above.
There is far too much risk in Scrypt ASIC development. One or more of the runners may fall at any of the many hurdles, and even if they reach the winning post in perhaps 6 to 12 months time, its likely to be a Pyrrihc Victory as GPU developments, price movements or even POW algorithm changes could scupper the entire endeavour. Compare what happened with bitcoin sha256 ASIC development, and consider that scrypt is more complex, will cost far more to develop (which must all be funded up-front) and may give little or no advantage over the GPU competition. I'm Out. |