Oh I thought they were still asicminer. The 2.7ghs ones
Canary will you be selling the new ghs usb miners?
ghs? you mean bfury chip based?
no, they are not ASICMiner. they are based on bitfury chips.
I was contacted to be a "reseller" by an assembler. However, this is a misnomer with these devices... Whereas ASICMiner actually manufactures their devices and has a network of resellers, bitfury DOES NOT.
There are assemblers who have contacted a few people and even setup "authorized" resellers. but this is a little bit misleading. these assemblers simply assemble the purchased bitfury chips.
They have no risk in this at all.
they pass on all the risk to the person collecting a group buy and ultimately the buyer. Anyone wishing to get the USB sticks based on bitfury chips should really go out and purchase chips and have them assembled in US for example instead.
This may sound strange to you but the granular issue here is that price setting is not done by a true manufacturer but an assembler who has 0 risk in this. ASICMiner for ex. manufactures a bunch ahead of time and then adjusts the prices as necessary to drive and keep demand. and they are in stock now, you are not prepaying ahead of time to have them made. by the time folks receive bfury based sticks, they will cost you more than currently in stock products from others. Ofcourse, I think everyone should get at least 1 just to have a device for historical purposes. it is a neat development and I support in principle any positive btc development.
therefore, I declined to "resell" them since there's no true manufacturer behind these devices and I see alot of unhappy people down the road and don't wish to hurt my reputation. it's not worth it.
plus, ASICMner will have it's own next gen chip and devices at a later time too. at that time, I'll probably get busier than ever, so for now I can rest and prepare.
