Can you still purchase ASIC Scrypt miners?

[bensam1231]

Are they still selling them? I've been doing some digging and largely turning up nothing compared to SHA ASICs. I know they were all the rage in '14 and early '15, but now it seems like supply has largely dried up except for startups trying to get funding for miners they haven't made yet.

[MarkAz]

First, wrong forum, you want to probably post in here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=67.0

Short answer is yes, you can buy InnoSilicon ones directly from them - not aware of any other manufacturers actively selling, and there's a fair bit of them on the secondary market, although it's been getting a bit tighter lately.  Prices are a bit high IMO, probably due to BTC's crazy difficulty climb the last month or so...

[QuintLeo]

I'm pretty sure Innosilicon is no longer selling the Farm Boys new.

 There are plenty of used Scrypt miners out there though, and there should be A4 based units later this year.

[bensam1231]

Yeah, looks like those are old '14 models too. Guess no one made new ones for '15 and they stopped selling batches. Kinda makes sense when you look at the ROI on one of them right now, it's much better to buy SHA.

[QuintLeo]

Technically, that SFARDS SF100 thing was "new in 2015" - but it appears to have had some MAJOR board-level issues, per at least one review from a major farm operator, and it looks like they stopped selling to the public at all (even with their largish MOQ and their crazy high pricing) after they managed to sell off their first batch.

 2016 should be different - even if the Alcheminer folks do NOT get their gen II chip into production, Innosilicon has talked some about the A4 and it appears like it will show up sooner than later.