true, they make one after you pay them. Would recomended Baikal over it, any time in a day.

I wonder if the dr3 could be patched for multi-algo or even a nicehash/multialgo setup so you can get the best of both worlds. It has a built in controller and an update-able OS

Having products available is definitely one of the pro's, a pipe dream would have me comparing the baikal mega and the dr3 but that's a few months away at least.

The real downside of the du1 is not it's price, but the minimum order size. I think they'd sell like hotcakes if you could buy 1 at a time. Ton's of folks could run a single usb du1 but 5 of them require additional infrastructure, like buying hubs that aren't properly built for the power draw. Plus half a bitcoin could almost get you 2 baikal mini's.

Lowering the initial buy-in cost allows more people to get involved.

Let me know if you ever want to sell your pinidea hardware maybe we could work something out.

When you expect this new promotion? It will be again for Giants?

They guy that Innosillicon decided to go with improving the source code is called Nowayz on this forum btw

I have never received any word back from Innosillicon regarding my proposal to them, not even after a reminder email with a modified proposal

  True, just not as cheap as a paperclip! LOL

Here is the paperclip trick.  It is pretty simple, and you don't need to go crazy taping it up like this guy did.  Your simply closing the circuit so that the PSU thinks the mobo is connected.

http://aphnetworks.com/tutorials/psu_paperclip_trick

I bought a few Giants directly from Baikal. Excellent customer service, fast shipping. The miners are running great!

I had bought a Baikal from Asicminermarket earlier and that one stopped working, none of the LED's light up. It looks a little different than the ones I got directly from Baikal. Right now I am not sure where to get support on that one.

It is actually a FPGA, it was proven when they released the multi-algo firmware. I wonder if some X11-Gost firmware would be possible...

I agree 100%, and by reading past comments/feedback they are for sure very interested in the image they make for themselves.
They have excellent client service, even when Chinese New Year was on.

Enjoy your unit, I'm certainly happy with their products.

I could be wrong..but I seem to remember the page saying 150 usd at one time and I was very tempted..perhaps it was an error....but 90%
sure I looked at that price for a long time on that page...but alas..did not jump into the pool...ran away (coward that I am..)

sell it before the profit get too low, usually in 6 months maximum

Well it's a good thing I like pretty green lights!

Does anyone have anything arguably more productive than playing BTC lotto with these USB Erupters?

Maybe someday someone will make AssCoin™ or CryptoPeso™ and I can mine those 

the only thing worth mining with them is x11 though they cant do eth or blake or pascal etc or even zec

One of the guys in my group is a big DASH supporter. And he has invested in several models of Baikal miners. I have 2 racks of his ASICs in my warehouse which I help him host the gear. Singles 150Mhs. Quads 600Mhs. Giant 900MHs (this miner is a champ and only eats only 200watts - you can attached 5 of these with one 1300 PSU).

Total hashpower 25GHs currently pulling about 300$-400$ per day. There was a period where daily-takings is double if you sell the hash to NH because some jokers paid premium to eat-up the entire X11 hash supply in US and Europe. I smell a P&P.

However, without going into P&P speculations, as long as we get paid more per submitted hash over normal PPS -- no worries. His entire 25Ghs worth of gear takes about 8 months ROI according to him -- he is about just over halfway to ROI minus expenses etc. He said he is lucky to have bought them at the right time because of the massive surge of DASH and X11 coins (Baikal's X11 miners can also do multi algo and auto-swicth, X13, X14, X15, Quark and Qubit algos).

Note: I asked him about what if X11 is no longer profitable and he is stuck with the ASICs... his reply, convert it into a large global node for DASH and collect tx fees. I kind of agree with him because DASH is one of the 3 grand daddies of crypto (BTC, DASH and LTC)... and it survived just like BTC. Like Phil's says.... BTC needs the other stronger coins in the crypto super highway.

Thx for sharing but I would consider Startcoin to be on the lower end of the profit scale. There are other Alt's that can yield higher returns....It's a never ending constant thing of testing and trying out...

In general I think Baikal should be one of few ASICs if one will decide to build the mining operations. It is multi-algo, absolutely reliable build (not Antminer R4!) and very good reselling capacity.

Baikal is out of stock on quads... please dont tell me i have to buy 60 mini ones...