If this is the case , then the price is too high for what he is offering.

Waiting for OP for the exact mean.

PM Sent just reserved a few units. Merry Christmas!!

Thanks for clarifying. The way it was written sounded like you were accepting orders and would not confirm the reservation fee had been paid.

Looking forward to finally getting my hands on some Spondoolies gear.

Happy holidays!

Cant you just cross check orders made thru the GB link with a list from RoadStrees who reserved and paid the fee?

RoadStress deserves the fee small fee for setting this up, not to mention 60% will be donated.

I also never said you'd get the S5 before the SP20, or that the S5 would be more profitable. Both those have too many factors to state absolutely. While I haven't actually attempted the math for a couple different difficulty curves, I would imagine running the SP20 full out now and downclocking it in response to difficulty would make it decently more profitable than the S5 almost all the time.

That doesn't change the fact that the spec of S5 is more efficient than the SP20, unless you underclock the SP20 to below the hashrate of the S5. I even gave you the caveat that they have to meet their spec for that to happen.

Yes, and it is probably partially a miscommunication but I did ask if the deposit was refundable. A sentence that it isn't a deposit probably would have been appropriate, especially given the advertisement that the cost of two units is $1000.

So now that the product page has been posted, when is payment deadline? Because I didn't think this would be posted until the 28th. I'm not at home with access to my BTC wallet until after Christmas.

Well, the S5 does actually have better efficiency (if they hit their 0.51J/GH at the wall spec) unless you downclock the unit to ~1TH/s, at which point it's more expensive per GH/s than the S5. I won't get into that debate here though, as I actually do like the SP20 more.
I can only mine profitably at the current price of BTC until about 90B difficulty though, and I really have to massage the numbers to come up with a scenario where difficulty doesn't at least double before I pay off even a $500 (and $7 ) purchase price.

Also, it's both disappointing, having sent my reservation fee, and unprofessional...

Well that's lame. OP should probably update the first post then, as the cost of the miner is not $500 and you cannot get two SP20's for $1000

Wait, how do you get credit for your reservation fee?

I have no idea where I will put two more.  but I think I will toss in some placeholder money.



https://blockchain.info/tx/e5d55b6bbf09ab60d00049b82379bd222a31ff7b57b20ee96c5fd49375aa8099

so I sent .04 btc to reserve 2 more ,  I think only 11 are left.

well, in reality, this thread was started by one of your biggest haters.
It just goes to show how truly 'impartial' that dogie (et al) is, when joining in with this type of hate-campaign.
dogie and his 'manufacturers trustworthyness guide' what a crock of shit.

dogie, lock all your threads, by the standards you have set out in this thread, they are all spam.

I think a SP31 can fit on top of the veggie cart.

Here is the ASICs page, I'll take a screen cap:



Current reading on watt meter: 307.8 watts


In case you're not aware, my entire house is on 240 volts. That may be a factor.

Does Spondoolies accept credit card eg. Visa as payment? Also, do I need to be legendary - or else I can't qualify?

Can you show the full ASIC page and the wall watt meter?

I just changed the volts on the settings page.

I set the fan to 20% and rebooted it. It's now only consuming 309 watts at 0.6 volts hashing 752.7 GH/s. 0.41052212 watts / GH/s.

Let me take a picture of my current setup.



I will keep it at 20% during the night, as the miner is near the bedroom.

My engineer put the SP20 through a tough quality test.  In the end he seemed happy.