Drachma 3 by Kratos. New ASIC Scrypt Miner @ 0.33W/Mh. 4000Mh/s @ 1300W

[offordscott]

Drachma 3 by Kratos. New ASIC Scrypt Miner @ 0.33W/Mh. 4000Mh/s @ 1300W

The Kratos Drachma 3 litecoin miner is due to hit the market in September 2020.

To put this into perspective, the Bitmain Antminer L3+ runs at 504 MH/s @ 800W. The Kratos Drachma 3 will run at 4000 Mh/s @ 1300W. And the Kratos Drachma 4 will run at 5400 Mh/s @ 1780W.

They will ship to customers within The Americas from Wisconsin USA.

Hashboards and controllers will be for available separately so you can retrofit your existing obsolete miners. If you have Antminer S9 or Antminer L3+ casings / chassis and fans, you can just slide these new Scrypt boards and controllers into your used miners.

Also applicable to Antminer A3, Antminer T9+, Antminer D3 & Innosilicon A4+ bodies.

[mikeywith]

Damn! after LTC halving as well as the massive price decline, THIS is like the last nail in the coffin for L3/L3++, but this is nothing out of the ordinary since it has been forever since the latest Scrypt miners have been improved and they still have a lot of room to grow, however, 50 miners MOQ is a lot, I am not sure how the sales will go for large quantities like that given the lead time is nearly 6 months which IMO is way too long.

I like the idea of being able to use the old S9 and L3+ miners to hold these hash boards.

If you have Antminer S9 or Antminer L3+ casings / chassis and fans, you can just slide these new Scrypt boards and controllers into your used miners.

[bearexin]

I guess there was some exception about when the new miners will come to market and who would be the first and it looks like this will be the first one. Technology constantly evolves and we can't expect every machine to always be relevant, the first gigs we have built are no longer profitable and even if you are running on a free electricity place it is not making any money because the machines broke down before they can ever make a profit as well so basically you have to improve all the time to keep up with the times.

This is just the next logical step when it comes to litecoin mining however do not be mistaken that this will be the last one, in few years these will be old ones and there will be new ones as well, by 2025 this machine will not make a profit, always keep that in mind when you are buying them.

[offordscott]

My recommendation is always to buy either used gear or to buy the first batch of a pre-order when a new miner model comes out (which usually means you’ll be waiting 2-4 months to receive your miner. Either one of these options will greatly help you to potentially receive an ROI.

However, as you know, mining is a high-risk and unpredictable endeavor. I try not to make claims about earning potential and can not advise or speculate on the topics of profitability for any given algorithm or currency.

The number of coins a miner can yield will depend on many factors including your exact percentage of hashpower in comparison to the global network, the network difficulty, your electricity costs and other costs associated with cooling and running miners, and of course, your overall uptime.

We can only specify the hashrate at which a miner can operate and the power it should consume within a certain tolerance in ideal conditions.

With a new ASIC miner on a new algorithm, one way to check your earning potential is to do some forecasting. For example, when estimating your ROI, you would be safe to cut the value of the coin in half and triple the estimated difficulty. Then, using that data, perform a calculation to see if you would be happy with the number of days it would take to ROI if that difficulty and coin value remained the same for the entire duration of your ASIC’s useful lifespan.

Now, of course, litecoin is already a proven coin and the algo has been around a long time already, so your method for calculating potential profit will differ.

I would want to get my money back within 9-12 months of plugging the miner in. If splitting the coin price in half and tripling the difficulty give you an undesirable ROI time period, then perhaps you shouldn’t buy the ASIC. That’s my line of thinking for new ASICs on new algos.

With bitcoin and BTC, it’s a little easier to estimate, as there are a lot more data points available to analyze and the mining difficulty is not as heavily impacted by a new ASIC being released because the global network hashrate is so large. 

[offordscott]

As an exclusive distributor, I've been in continual talks with the manufacturer on a weekly basis.

Here is a copy of a simplified chip design schedule / gantt chart for the Litecoin miner production. The miners and boards are due to be released in September 2020:



The chip manufacturer will be Samsung.

Here is a redacted cover letter from an independent third-party review of a simulation report performed by the chip manufacturer the other month:

[BTC-Explorer]

Any update on this Project?