It'd be nice if they did. Not saying that they will do anything of the sort, but here's to hoping that they might. They've always been priced above Bitmain, so it'll be a small miracle if prices go even near that of Bitmain's.

Still decent for people with cheaper electrical costs and it comes at half the price of a preorder S9. It has its niche and it's selling out almost instantly. Was actually considering buying one of these as I have very cheap electricity.

Problem is distributors will probably mark up the prices to higher than direct. From what I can tell they'll be around the $3000 mark or up which is pretty ridiculous even for a quality product. Hopefully Avalon and their distributors will change their minds about pricing.

Temps? You're mining on a laptop which is pretty much the worst scenario you could be in for mining. I'm guessing it's the GPU being thermally throttled as it's probably running hot in a laptop.

If the board being talked about is the ONDA board, it's a DDR4 motherboard. If it's a 1151 board, whatever you can find cheapest works. G3900s can be found nowadays on Aliexpress for ~$30 with shipping included. Delivery's a bit slow, but the Celeron and Pentium 1151 chips are very cheap.

We have no idea right now but historically Avalon has always been on top with reliability and quality. They're one of the most reliable modern miners you can get right now. Still not worth paying a huge premium for the A8 still though imo.

If you're in the United States Blokforge is a legit distributor of miners. They're supposedly starting sales on the 26th.

It doesn't. Avalon is simply following in the tracks of Bitmain and trying to get as much money as possible from these units ATM. When ROI gets above that point I simply skip the product. Anything less than a year is decent for me, anything over I don't consider.

Profitability on SHA coins swings extremely heavily. If you choose to stay on DGB monitor profitability. Same applies for Scrypt. I choose to stay on one main coin for that reason, a lot of work for a bit more coin by constantly switching.

LTC is a Scrypt coin which has been cracked by ASICS, GPU MINING LTC is pointless since ASICs hash thousands of times faster than GPUs and are more efficient. You'll want to mine ZEC or ETH with 1080tis.

Nicehash's calculator gives you the current buying price for whatever kind of hashing you're trying to sell and then crunches the numbers. The network profitability may be lower or higher than what is on Nicehash, it doesn't have to be the same.

No. Only way I know of to get the Bitfury chips are directly from Bitmain, every other source is pretty much a scam except for a few companies which have made small amounts of Bitmain miners (see Hotmine). I hope you are aware of how incredibly difficult it is to design a miner and how much time it'll take. Even with advanced knowledge of ASICS and miners in general making miners by yourself is an extremely difficult task.

Exactly what I was thinking. Sub 10k looks very likely now, I can always afford to hold for months or years though. No biggie for me. I have never sold in the years I’ve been in BTC and I won’t now.

While this looks good for Volta so far we still have no idea how the GTX Volta series will perform. It’ll be interesting to see how the entire lineup performs mining-wise, we may have another 480/580 style shortage on our hands if they do well at mining.

You don't even need wireshark if you don't want to get on your computer, Fing/any network scanning app on a mobile device can do the same task. Do a scan without the miner on and do one with it on and find what new addresses popped up, test by connecting to the IP, and you should find the miner. Many popular miners used Texas Instruments controllers and my miners showed up as such on Fing. Not sure what sort of controllers the Ebits use though.

Also ensure your router is using 192.168 and not 10.0. The latter caused many issues for me with miners that were unresolved till I switched my network to the former address range.

If the price is right these units will sell out pretty darn fast. I'm hoping it'll be competitively priced against the S9 which is in pretty crazy price territory right now. No complaints about specs otherwise, hoping it'll have the usual Avalon quality.

There's still going to be people that buy miners at even this price. If it sells out in a day or so expect prices to jump higher. Bitmain's trying to take all the money they can right now by feeling how much people are willing to spend for a long term pre-order.

Considering people are selling these units for $4000-5000 on the market right now, they still have space to jack up their prices. I'd highly suggest looking into Avalon units now. If Bitcoin hits a correction period temporarily these will be a bad buy, not worth looking at imo. Still funny how they put the price of these in BTC up next to the buy button but they don't even accept BTC for payment.

No. You can run a miner on satellite internet or even dial up, they use hardly any bandwidth and higher latency only increases stale shares. Ideally you just want a low latency connection, speed doesn't matter very much.

The one I was talking about was for the interval that just happened a couple hours ago. There aren't any longer term models that I know of, they probably wouldn't be of much use anyways since difficulty can go up and down based on things models can't calculate well anyways (actual chip production, price, etc).

Antpoo is a shitty pool that pays significantly less than almost any other X11 pool anyways; there's a reason why most people on the forums mine elsewhere. Prohashing is one pool I can think of that supports X11. I still cannot fathom why people mine anything on Antpool to this day.