GROUP-BUY ASIC Scrypt Miner

[chrissibel]

Hi all,
I'm trying to get a group buy going for the new Alpha Technology ASIC Scrypt Miner. 25MH/s. Let me know if you are interested.

http://alpha-t.net/

Check it out and reply here.

[rico666]

I'm trying to get a group buy going for the new Alpha Technology ASIC Scrypt Miner. 25MH/s. Let me know if you are interested.

You mean the "Viper".

It's tempting to take 10 (for 50.000 EUR total no upfront payment IF delivered
until March)  - having a 250MH/s scrypt cluster with 6KW power requirement would be nice.
Alas,  there are too many open questions.

* Delivery date?
* How many will they produce?
* Why do they offer only 6 months warranty if they are in the EU and MUST offer 2 years?
* Their refund policy is terrifying


So let's wait and see...



Rico

[chrissibel]

I'm trying to get a group buy going for the new Alpha Technology ASIC Scrypt Miner. 25MH/s. Let me know if you are interested.

You mean the "Viper".

It's tempting to take 10 (for 50.000 EUR total no upfront payment IF delivered
until March)  - having a 250MH/s scrypt cluster with 6KW power requirement would be nice.
Alas,  there are too many open questions.

* Delivery date?
* How many will they produce?
* Why do they offer only 6 months warranty if they are in the EU and MUST offer 2 years?
* Their refund policy is terrifying


So let's wait and see...



Rico

yeah its a bit risky which is why i want to do a group buy to lower everyone's risk and losses if it doesnt work out. But if it does work out the profits could potentially be very great.

[darius2020]

I am interested in 1Th/s Asic miner
let me know details

[BitHouse]

Curious how your 'group buy' went and where you decided to host (what country). I purchased a number of these when they first came out in (within the first few hours) and hope it will be a profitable venture. I agree that there are a ton of question marks about when they will be delivered, production, warranty, performance, etc., but that seems to be the risk you have to take if you get in on a pre-order. My first purchase was a Butterfly Labs Mini Rig and I had to wait an incredible amount of time for that to finally arrive. Difficulty had skyrocketed, but so had BTC price. Had to take on a lot of risk, but ultimately made 270% on the investment (I actually sold and shipped my second to last rig today).

Best policy to follow is diversification, which can be hard, but you're trying to accomplish to a degree. I started by buying BTC + equipment as a way to try more than one thing. I've owned and mined with something like 13 pieces of equipment, and have pre-orders in for many more than that from KnCminer, Black Arrow, CoinTerra and now Alpha Labs as well. Even if all of these went bust, I have most of my eggs in other (non-cryptocurrency investment) baskets, and that's important. My hope is that through diversification between equipment providers, I can mitigate some additional risk as well while still making a great profit.

Interested in an update on how this is going for your group. Also, does anyone have knowledge about any duty/taxes that US residents will have to pay for equipment being shipped from Alpha or KnC, etc??

[sniksen]

It could be interesting

[primer10]

Waiting for Jasinlee

[[fakker]]

I don't know, I don't usually trust preorders or group buys where there's no real information...