Margin price estimation of USB Block Erupter

[lazydna]

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It's like scamming, but without scamming!

[seleme]

You guys don't have idea, they are good Samaritans and are doing wonders for the network. We should all support them  

At times, they were making some 230$ on 250$ product. And morons were lining all over the forum to send them the money, lol

They+re worse than BFL. BFL offered great opportunity to people but fucked it up in the process (though being utter twats in the process too), these guys were and are deliberately and cold blooded fucking up bitcoin community.

[bystander]

From their website:

"2,000 Bitcoins have been reserved for the re-investment:

1. Deposits for the long-term pre-order of hard-to-get ICs.
2. Costs of mass production of Block Erupter USB sticks."


So perhaps it took around 250k USD to start, not sure how many they've sold so far and how many they will sell.  On my customs declaration form for their shipment, they wrote a value of $99 ea for test pcb boards.  It doesn't mean anything, but it's interesting nonetheless. 

With the 282mh open source usb sticks at around $30/ea on the horizon, they're ahead of the curve with their new pricing.  Maybe they just had to move a massive load asap.

[vm1990]

You guys don't have idea, they are good Samaritans and are doing wonders for the network. We should all support them  

At times, they were making some 230$ on 250$ product. And morons were lining all over the forum to send them the money, lol

They+re worse than BFL. BFL offered great opportunity to people but fucked it up in the process (though being utter twats in the process too), these guys were and are deliberately and cold blooded fucking up bitcoin community.

i actually respect asicminer for beating everyone to market by a hell of a gap... maybe bfl could learn something but that said they are still expensive for what they are but that happens when your only other real competition mess up so many times

if i knew bfl where going to be this far off the deadline i would have gone into the race with myself..... or maybe designed a super fpga with a few arm chips or cyclone chips

[tom_o]

So maybe $4 for all components, excluding the bitcoin ASIC? That puts the total margin price at $10 per stick.

id probably say about $15 total to include manufacturing and all the background stuff maybe testing to but yeh Avalon are really screwing people over for these but does that really surprise anyone the company with the least amount of resorses managed to pull the rabbit out of the hat and are quite welcome to make as much profit as they can out of it

and there still the only really player in the market thanks to all these idiots that have let the projects die or tried to over design things like BFL

Avalons strategy of going with more chips for the price of power worked they required far less design and where much much easier to get made.... they also went with china to make the things which in my books on getting the things to market will beat anything made in the EU or USA by months

ill give it to the chine's when it comes to building and getting it done fast there the ones to go with

These block erupters are from ASICMINER not Avalon btw.

Add a cute 40mm silent fan; http://www.quietpc.com/nf-a4x10

and dont forget the power there already on the very edge of usb 2 capability to get more power they would have to go usb 3 or even external power sources...

Those are 0.6w at 12v (50ma!), they'll draw even less at 5v (USB spec is 5v*500ma=2.5w); you could run at least 10 off a standard USB socket!