feel free to comment.
I think you've already read my opinion.
If I were given an ASIC like this, I'd use it until it breaks, but I'm not willing to pay $250-$300 for 5 terahash.
An extra 60 kilowatts of electricity is $3 a month or $36 a year for me, I wouldn't even notice those expenses.
Your power is cheap 5 centsyou are not a person that needs to buy it.
But my home power is 21 cents in the winter and 28 cents in the summer.
Let’s say 25 cents all year round.
I can run a modded t21 with 1 board at 50th 10x the hash power.
Cost me about 200+150+150=500 to build and it will burn
950 watts or 30.4x24x.95=693.12 700 kwatts
700x.25=175 usd a month or 175x12=2,100 a year for power
Plus 500 to build all told my modded t21 will cost about 2600 for year 1
Chance of a block 1 in maybe 150 years
Or buy the bco4
250 to buy and power is 60x12x.25=180 dollars a year.
So run the 50th modded t21 for 1st year and spend 2600
Or run the bc04 for 1st year and spend 430
Better yet run the bco4 for 10 years and spend 250+1800 = 2,050
So if you have 25 cent power and want a hobby that cost 200 a year for ten years time the bc04 is a good fun hobby gear that may make money or likely lose money.
Still a 200 a year hobby for fun is cool enough for many.
