Remember how fun it is to silently smile and nod condescendingly at a captive consumer base while adding $100 of pure profit margin to every unit sold just because you can? I guess Bitmain was having fun with the supply/demand curves and figured what the hey, why not.

I'm gonna side with Dogie's opinion that it might be BitFury. There's been pretty much zero publicity about their new chips, which I'd think they'd be rolling in it if they were actually impressed with the design. Spondoolies I doubt has a batchable ASIC yet (though I could be wrong) and though I've been drooling over BE300 since December, with everything that's gone wrong for ASICMiner lately, I figure either they put in an order months ago or not at all so the timing doesn't really make sense.

More likely they didn't want to invest further in manufacturing current-gen technology whose bottom-end efficiency is pretty much on par with current or upcoming competition's stock efficiency, so they could put money into R&D for the next-gen stuff to actually compete directly with whoever Bitmain's worried about in another month or two.

Additionally, when factoring longevity into S5 calculations recall that BM1384 chips are rated to run around 0.25W/GH with sufficient undervolt/underclock. That takes the S5 from a 600W 1100GH machine to a 125W 500GH machine.

Some days I feel like I'm the only one in the bitcoin economy not motivated by pure greed. It's too bad there aren't more people actually working to support and diversify the network and overall economy rather than focus on short-term profitability at the cost of basically everyone and everything else.

SPT had exactly one product which wasn't specifically designed for a datacenter environment, and Bitmain price-hammered them so much they couldn't sell it except at a loss.

Additionally, anyone complaining that Bitmain price-hiked their machines by $100 in one day has good reason to do so because now they know full well that Bitmain has no qualms about letting people know they're being screwed. Sure the price of coin is swinging up on the news that their competition won't be delivering. That means the miner is expected to be more profitable for purchasers to mine on. But it also means that Bitmain themselves, fully capable of making positive margin at $320 per unit or they wouldn't be selling at all, are really in the mood to make another $100 profit per unit just because they can. Pretty dickish. Bitmain has good gear, sure, but that's crap and everyone knows it.

I'd comment on Hex4M capability, but since the hosting customers I was supposed to get machines for in August never got theirs from Technobit...

Also, what's the status on this? Am I too lowball?

Talk to cheeseater; I think he has 3 or 4 he was looking to put on eBay this week.

I used to do a fair amount of business with minersource, have had exactly one email conversation with Carson in the last month, over the course of about two hours on the 12th. No responses to any inquiries since then. Not terribly encouraging as they'd previously been talking about sending a lot of work our way, and we were already preparing for the jobs before they went dark. Just throwing that out there.

The people that bought them when the design was supposed to be 2TH they shipped two 1TH machines. I guess they weren't able to make them as power-dense as they thought they could when the ASIC actually ran 1W/GH instead of 0.55W/GH eh?

The ASICMiner Tube runs 96 BE200 chips at 270MHz stock, outputting 827GH at approximately 900W of wall power. He's got twelve of them at $250 each, so about 9.6TH for $3k

How many of these are left?

Is that a controller designed for 3-wire or 4-wire fans? Also, on 4-wire fans the blue wire is internally tied high and the PWM signal is actually done by pulling it low during the off time, so disconnecting the blue wire is probably better than giving it 12V directly. If the 12V you're feeding into the blue wire isn't current-limited, you could be roasting the board's fan controller.

A 3-wire fan controller may not work for a 4-wire fan driving the blue wire, because the 3-wire probably provides power on the high and a no-connect on the low instead of a no-connect on the high and a GND on the low.

Man I'd love to see coin back at $350. I'd more love to see it at $600 but that's not likely anytime soon.

To cloudmine, or not to cloudmine? That is the question.

~0.75BTC seems a bit high for a 1.1W/GH machine that sold new for 1BTC six months ago. Just throwing this out there, but a pair of S3 (getting 880GH at 700W, not 830GH at 900W) bundled with a PSU would ship for about the same. I like the Tubes, but that's a 100-day breakeven with flat diff and zero power cost.

My parts and labor would be how much it's worth to you to have them working, minus the cost of shipping them here and back. That's why I asked. Figuring one out would be a good start.

To take a look? Probably nothing. How much is it worth to you to get it working?

How many is "a bunch"?

Wait, so the diff is flatlined and coin is at a its highest point in months and the last gear they sold flew off the shelves and nobody else has anything available, but it doesn't make sense to sell more gear?

I almost tossed in on this thread, but I've only handled one gridseed pod and it wasn't volt-modded so I don't have direct experience with the circuitry. Not saying I wouldn't be willing to take a look.

No.