Thats really cool, but when i did research, the prohibitive cost was the yearly upkeep of short lived and expensive batteries. I would love to learn an alternative/cheap way to store power, however.

It's apparently on Bitmain's China website. And indeed, there isint much attract to the home miner.

Personally i'm just imagining 6 stock S5 fans screaming at 100% speed. Yeah no thanks.

What does them having a blockchain have anything to do with it?

If instead of a form factor of 3 S5 you had a "S5+' with the single form factor, then you would be left with a more expected upgrade to a S5, that still use different frame and heatsinks, enclosure, etc.

The difference would be small, a bit like the S3 and the S3+. It would have pretty much the same efficiency, just more under volted chips. Ultimately more heat crammed into the same space.

You were suggesting an S1 to S5+ upgrade. If you need to change the frame, the boards, the heatsink and add fans and a controller adapter. In the end the only thing you would be keeping is a single fan and maybe the s1 controller. So what exactly would you be upgrading?

I just bet its not possible even if they technically wanted to, since it would be just a disassembled package of a complete S5+, minus a fan?

The upgrade kit was designed for just shipping the new board, as its light, without having to reship the heatsink, the heavy parts, etc.

Look at the picture, the chips arent being cooled the same was as before, the S1 heatsink would probably not be of use. You now need to put alot of pressure and air flow on the individual aluminium heatsink and there would not be any with the way the S1 is designed.

You would most likely need a new controller, the boards, more fans and an enclosure and then just maybe you would be okay for dissipating 1200watts of power.

Hahhhh.. Sadly i have to disagree. This is exactly hitting the market. Home mining is mostly dead in scale. There is little point working on highly optimized technology for maximum efficiency yada yada. Why make a high tech miner and mass produce it, when its just going to devalue their own mines. Why spend so much time and money comming up with technological edge ASIC?

Its much more efficient to mass produce cheap asic and slap them on electricity at 3-4cents/kwh. Too bad for people paying 8+cents/kwh is probably what they think. ^_^"

China style. Cheap Mass Production.

Ah its using, allegedly, mini aluminium headsink and a high air pressure is blown through. Dissipating the heat is quite possible since it would obviously use something like 6 of those fans S5 uses. The chips would run hot but thats probably okay.

Anyways on the bright side, the diff won't go up TOO much.

I don't really see the upside, the performance ratio is in the vicinity of S5's albeit more compact. Sound like the same chips but a better board. I think its too much heat packed in so little space. People kept arguing me but i still believe this is far from a home miner, and its not much of a upgrade. Its just centralized mining optimized.

There is no point in getting a higher paying job if you're going to hate your life for it. I have a friend who has a hard job, he works overtime and make 65k per year at 24 years old and he hate his life, never have energy to do anything fun outside work hours.

What's the point?

I have to second that. While Norton is in the most expensive Anti-Virus out there. It is also in the worse. For scanning malware i recommend Malwarebyte. S&D isint too bad either.

I would like to see some source. The member who brought it up did not mention any, he just threw some insane specs in and left.

It is the 3rd identical scam/scammer i saw in the last week. Be careful everyone!

You're not seeing a S7 either. They did not announce either yet. Only that the next thing to be released will be the S7.

It was working fine yesterday. Now i tried in safe mode, checked with no firewall, still doesnt work. I added port 8333 and it is properly opened, but that doesn't fix it.

Whats up with MultiBit HD suddenly no longer connecting?

"java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect"

xD It still just does not make sense. Look at the design. You want that to dissipate 3500 watts of electricity? xD That's like 2 ovens. I don't know, maybe its some 6k rpm fans and the unit would actually come with 6 fans. Maybe it could dissipate all that heat. It just doesn't look like a home miner.

Because that machine would not be be favorable to 110v 15a setup from over here. It favor 230v and centralized power for high output farms. The wattage is insane and the efficiency seem to be on par with current S5 chips, so it just seem like 3 unit stuck together.

Look like this is clearly within the 0.01%-2.50% philipma first allocated to me The hash on the chart is still going way down so it look like we're looking at a still lower difficulty than 0.82%.

Um, yeah. Definitively. I want something small factor and easily modable (sound wise mostly). And ideally something stackable. And this is definitively not what i would be looking for...