I was considering investing more in X11 mining before securing some Obelisks, but things have changed over the past few days...
FIVE -- count them -- 5 companies are coming out with X11 asic miners soon.
The ibelink DM11Gs are shipping end of the month. Bitmain is sold a few D3s... Baikal is coming out with their 2GH asic (which has the advantage of being able to mine other similar algos)... Innosilicon SUPPOSEDLY has a 30 GH coming out in October... and Pinidea supposedly has something in the works, but little details are available.
With that, plus the many L3+ batches... these Obelisks are looking better and better. Best bet if you want to avoid the other algo's asic rat race... IMHO anyways...
yeah I was thinking that as well, it seems like an arms race right now for X11 asics, It'll be interesting to see who comes out on top, my guess it will be a 2 horse race at some point.
Yeah with data halls even a bitmain 15gh for 3k with psu/shipping etc ..COULD have a lifespan of only 5 months and never ROI...it is that ugly
remember the KNC Neptunes that were pre-ordered and released like 9 months late while KNC used the pre-order money to fill their data halls first? They
pretty much were doorstops in 4-5 months made 1/4 of their 11k price back
I punted my Neppie pre-order at the time to knc titans ...whew...missed that bullet
Also remember there were scrypt-N coins.....asic resistant..the Titans hit the world and blew the coins up in a week to beyond any worthless alts in $$$ you see today
everyone changed algo.....so no scrypt-n coins (pure?) anymore I think...blamo....
and if dash was to change it algo ..ouch!!!
So the catch with the oblisk sc-1 is very simple
1) if it goes no place will we get refunded
2) if they start production and it goes no place and money spent...likely not
3) will we see these in July 2018 or delays
4) can it survive as an SC coin only
probably a coin toss on x11 and that far in the future pre-order at best anyway
imho (I know zip at one time I drank the butterfly labs kool-aid..thus can't believe I pre-ordered 2 of these....young fool + now old fool = fool
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