Why the lack of hardware competition in the DASH mining space?

[newtybar]

Baikal seems to be the only player in town and while they have solid equipment, their customer support and ordering sucks.

Demand is through the roof so this market seems ripe for the taking. 

Why has no one else developed a solution?  All you would need to do is have a legit site with basic cart/ordering functionality and you would be in serious business.

[bathrobehero]

Baikal seems to be the only player in town and while they have solid equipment, their customer support and ordering sucks.

Demand is through the roof so this market seems ripe for the taking. 

Why has no one else developed a solution?  All you would need to do is have a legit site with basic cart/ordering functionality and you would be in serious business.

...and truckloads of money for chip R&D and so on.


Besides, why would anyone sell their golden egg laying goose? Even if some people would make a more efficient miner for X11m they'd likely sell them once they're done mining with them.

[not.you]

PinIdea has a functioning website and working devices.  But as soon as the price went through the roof they suddenly stopped selling them.  In fact I had been exchanging emails with them for a couple months about when their next batch would be ready and all of a sudden they stopped responding.  Right at the exact same time they changed everything on the website to sold out.  They were already sold out of the DR3 but they actually changed the image itself to have a "sold out" stamped on it which makes it appear they don't intend to sell them at all again.  Considering they had been telling me the next batch was right around the corner for a couple months right before that, I can only conclude they went into the mining business instead of the hardware selling business.