[Canceled] $3.5 - $2.8 Gh/s A1 Bitmine Chips - Group Chip Buy. Organized by SWMC

[SolarWindMiningCompany]

Presented by
a DyslexicZombei Vetted Group Buy Coordinator and

The SolarWind Mining Company



Bitmine's A1 ASIC Chips
Type: Group Chip Buy

Testing support for a multi-group Group Buy
This GCB has now opened. Reserve Your Position, chips will be shipped in the order of reservation. If you are a group or individual planning on purchasing the Bitmine A1 ASIC Chip, we can save up to 25% off the cost by pooling our resources together. SWMC will be using The Wasp and Hive design created by The Wasp Project Collective, of which I am a member, to build its own miningware. Just like you, we want the best price we can get.

I suggest a tiered approach by raising funds up to the amount of each discounted quantity. Tier 1 would be for 500 A1s and no discount. Once funding is secured for Tier 1, then we move on to Tier 2 for 1000 A1s with a 2.857% discount. Having Tier 2 funded, we move on to the next tier and higher discounted price and so on... For each tier level that is reached the cost per GH/s - A1 Chip is reduced, which would give you credit towards the next tier (e.i.. You get more for the same money.)

Again, this is only a test to see if there is support for a multi-group GB. So
Chime in and let us know what you are thinking or reserve your position in the order stack.

EDIT: Just a note, there will be no markup on this GCB if it is completed. The point of this GCB is to get the best price possible for the chips. You can do what you want with your chips and they will be sent to where ever you want them to be sent to. The only additional costs will be the extra shipping involved in moving your chips to your preferred location. The WPC will be offering licenses for the Wasp and Hive design so there will be plenty of places you can have your chips mounted if you want to have them on a Wasp. Or, you may have other ideas and that's just fine. The orders will be by the chip, so if you want 30 chips, you can reserve 30 chips@$X-Tier. If you want 1200 chips, it's just the same. Let's just work together to get the lowest price we can. Why let just the biggest mining operations have the volume price advantage? You can also create or add your own escrow accounts and your own purchase groups so long as you deliver the funds when they are needed to make the final purchase. I just serve as an organizer, so you don't have to send me anything at all.

When reserving your lot and please post comments in a separate reply so reservations won't get missed.

Please use the following format: [Y A1 Chips@$X-Tier#], where Y is the # of chips you want, X is the maximum in USD you wish to pay for each chip and # is the Tier Level.

Example: 100 A1 Chips@$87.5-Tier1

Thanks,
James Tate

Below is the pricing table for Bitmines A1 ASIC Chips.

Bitmine: A1 Pricing Table

Tier#		Quantity-H/s		Price Each Chip - GH/s	Total Price	Volume Savings USD - %
Tier1		500-12.5TH/s		$87.5 - $3.5 GH/s	$43,750	- - -
Tier2		1000-25.0TH/s		$85.0 - $3.4 GH/s	$85,000	$2500 - 2.857%
Tier3		2000-50.0Th/s		$82.5 - $3.3 GH/s	$165,000	$10,000 - 6.061%
Tier4		5000-1.25PH/s		$75.0 - $3.0 GH/s	$375,000	$62,500 - 16.667%
Tier5		10000-2.50PH/s		$70.0 - $2.8 GH/s	$700,000	$175,000 - 25.000%

[Xer0]

yes

[SolarWindMiningCompany]

yes

Well, there's one vote in favor, who else?

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[Powell]

Depending on when the order would go down I might be interested in 100 @ $70 per

Would be to go with the Wasp setup been watching because I like the idea.

[SolarWindMiningCompany]

Depending on when the order would go down I might be interested in 100 @ $70 per

Would be to go with the Wasp setup been watching because I like the idea.

OK, we have one marked as 'interested' when we reach 9999 9900 A1 chip requests. That's a start anyway.  

[Xer0]

i would need a pcb design or better complete boards where to just add the chips,
but then i would get at least a TH of them

[railzand]

James this is great.

I can hold enough BTC (or is it $?) to buy ten more chips at all tiers solely so that you can bump up if needed, until date to be confirmed, unless btc skyrockets details also tbc

I don't really want them myself, so please let the big guns roll, and we sort out what I do with my 10 after the buy, no worries.

But I do reckon you'll get to the top tier soon enough.

[SolarWindMiningCompany]

i would need a pcb design or better complete boards where to just add the chips,
but then i would get at least a TH of them

We will offer a fabrication/assembly service for the Wasps, and will offer a few of the PCBs for sale as soon as the design is finalized and we get a manufacture producing the units. I will mark you up as a possible reserve for 1 Th/s worth of A1s.

James this is great.

I can hold enough BTC (or is it $?) to buy ten more chips at all tiers solely so that you can bump up if needed, until date to be confirmed, unless btc skyrockets details also tbc

I don't really want them myself, so please let the big guns roll, and we sort out what I do with my 10 after the buy, no worries.

But I do reckon you'll get to the top tier soon enough.

Thanks railzand, I'll put you down for a reserved count of 10 A1s. And don't worry, if you don't want to take physical possession of the chips there are lots of ways we can handle that for you. You can sell them to someone else, we can mount them for you and you can sell them on the Hashing Exchange or to someone else or pay the assembly fee and have them shipped directly to you or to the individual you sell them to.

I think that I will change this thread from 'Testing' to 'Open' if we get a few more interested parties. So, how bout it? 

When I go live with this Group Chip Buy, I'll post a link to a spreadsheet or something like it so we all can see the progress of the GCB. I might also link to web page that will let you place a reserve order, etc.... etc...

[BuildTheFuture]

Is there any ballpark figure, in $/GH terms, of what the assembled boards/hive will go for? Is this going to be competitive/cheaper than simply buying an Antminer S1?

[S4VV4S]

Is there any ballpark figure, in $/GH terms, of what the assembled boards/hive will go for? Is this going to be competitive/cheaper than simply buying an Antminer S1?

+1

If we are buying the chips only at $3.5 per GH that means for 1TH you need $3500.
And that is for the chips only.

There's a complete 1TH unit available from mid March at $2550.
TheObserver made a GB about it: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=452850.0

[Xer0]

There's a complete 1TH unit available from mid March at $2550.
TheObserver made a GB about it: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=452850.0

its still to sort out if these are real

[bitwhizz]

interested

[SolarWindMiningCompany]

There's a complete 1TH unit available from mid March at $2550.
TheObserver made a GB about it: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=452850.0

its still to sort out if these are real

They might be real, but sounds like a one-off-shot operation that managed a rare deal on prices. Could be a couple of hobbyists that just got a wild hair and went for it. There is no discussion about mass production. They claim to have made more units than they really wanted and are selling the overage to recover costs. They also claim to be working on some Black Arrow Minion units. They are either two hobbyists, clever marketers or scam artists. Who knows? The main point is, if they are legit, availability will be very slim.

I'll try and get the specs that you guys asked for on the $GH/s for the A1 Wasps and post it here.

[SolarWindMiningCompany]

Is there any ballpark figure, in $/GH terms, of what the assembled boards/hive will go for? Is this going to be competitive/cheaper than simply buying an Antminer S1?

+1

If we are buying the chips only at $3.5 per GH that means for 1TH you need $3500.
And that is for the chips only.

There's a complete 1TH unit available from mid March at $2550.
TheObserver made a GB about it: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=452850.0

Here is a little information. I'll work on the rest and provides link to a spreadsheet.

Chips Only

Low Power:	1TH/s@17.5W	=	20GH/s x 50 A1s@$87.5	=	$4375.0
Nominal Performance:	1TH/s@24.0W	=	25GH/s x 40 A1s@$87.5	=	$3500.0
Turbo Mode:	1TH/s@25.0W	=	40GH/s x 25 A1s@$87.5	=	$2187.5

[SolarWindMiningCompany]

Here is a spreadsheet I've been working on to keep track of all the information: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AvMjxnIDQFujdEJKUS1rRmZrTW95YnZfcklXR1BhcGc&single=true&gid=1&output=html

Let me know what you like about it, what you don't like and anything you would like me to add.

 Thanks!

[zulover]

interested

[bitwhizz]

I would potentially be looking at getting 250 of these chips

[titomane]

I think 100 users 100 chips each are 10000.
4 Ths per user only 7000$
Im interested 200 chips. But I need exactly delivery date.

[KyrosKrane]

I'm certainly interested in this, but I have a number of questions.

1) Do we have any kind of ETA when the Wasp board designs might be ready for these? I checked the Wasp and Hive threads, and to a non-EE like me, it's clear as mud.
2) How many chips would be required per Wasp board?
3) Are there any other current board designs that would use these?
4) More to the point, is anyone doing dev project to actually fabricate the boards?
5) What would be the initial time estimate for these to start hashing?
6) What plans, if any, do you have in place for delays like those that hit the Avalon chip group buys and Klondike/BitBurner board development problems?

[S4VV4S]

I'm certainly interested in this, but I have a number of questions.

1) Do we have any kind of ETA when the Wasp board designs might be ready for these? I checked the Wasp and Hive threads, and to a non-EE like me, it's clear as mud.
2) How many chips would be required per Wasp board?
3) Are there any other current board designs that would use these?
4) More to the point, is anyone doing dev project to actually fabricate the boards?
5) What would be the initial time estimate for these to start hashing?
6) What plans, if any, do you have in place for delays like those that hit the Avalon chip group buys and Klondike/BitBurner board development problems?

Good questions.

Hopefully we get good answers