Considering they allowed orders of 50 after a few days, I expect this number to greatly increase.

I missed this shipment by 6 hours. Dang. I wonder how long till the next round...

Yeah. If there aren't reports of shipments on exactly the 20th like they promised I'd be inclined to get a train ticket to their headquarters and shout a bit.

I'm a little miffed they are taking so long to ship these. 77 people got weeks of free mining for the same cost. It's absurd.

Welcome back. Why the total removal of 200,9 ?

That system is four independent servers with two redundant psu for all of them. You will need four hard drives and four operating systems. I recommend you learn how to use ansible and keep them all in sync.

The real kickers are the chips with 16GB of HBM2 on the stack. But I don't think there are any development boards for those yet.

Can you please confirm MOQ (minimum order quantity) and just how many You will be shipping in Batch 1, and project to ship in batch 2?

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Why not email them and ask them to please please please give you an extra one. And offer to even pay for shipping.

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Hmm. North dakota.

I think you're completely ignoring memory latency for implementing the hash function.

or four Z9s. etc

They do add a neat water cooling system and low noise cooling. So at least there is some value. But not at 2x the price per sol

No one should consider 2MB of ram for PoW to be asic resistant at all these days.
Ultrascale+ FPGAs have enough internal memory to make this a joke. Plus on chip HBM2

Cryptonight PoW needs to increase the memory depth.

The currently proposed PoW changes wont break this miner if it's FPGA based. It'll require a slight change and recompile of the code. that's it. Same if it's movidius VPU based.

pretty sure baikal made this with a commodity VPU from movidius. No custom asics.

The devs just need to increase the cryptonote scratchpad memory size to 4MB and this miner will be shot. All the software is easily upgraded. All CPU miners will still be able to do it, though at reduced hashrate (still cache bound).

I guess I wont be mining XMRwith my intel movidius stick if they do though...

My power supplies cost $7.50 each for 675watts. Is that too cheap? :p
Used server psu pulls work just fine for mining, especially if they run off 240vac with better than 90% efficiency. The only worry is the electrolytic capacitors and fan life. Refurbishing all of those parts costs less than $10.