How many S3 are you planning to buy?

[Pjones]

Since Bitmain delayed the launch by about a week, and there are some speculations around the number of first batch units, it would be interesting to see what the demand looks like. 

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[cozk]

Probably none depending on the price.

[sebdude420]

I'm going to get as many as I can!

[Slaine]

One or two, but only when they drop to a sensible price and my S1 is only any use for alts.

[Trammel]

I will definitely get 1 or 2.  But will they really require 4 PCI-e connectors for their power?  Can you get a PSU with 8 PCI-e connectors?

[philipma1957]

I put none. Since you put at s-2 prices.  If it was at the best s-1 price  I would buy 10  or more.

Note the best s-1 price I paid was 173 usd an s-1 which was under   1 dollar a gh. 

The best s-2 price I have seen is about 1.40 usd a gh.  that would be a no go price for me.

[s1gs3gv]

With: Estimated Next Difficulty:   16,947,623,526 (+25.89%)

Bitmain will need to think hard about how they price the S3 if they want the product to succeed.

I'd love to have a good reason to buy some.

[lowbander80]

With: Estimated Next Difficulty:   16,947,623,526 (+25.89%)

Bitmain will need to think hard about how they price the S3 if they want the product to succeed.

I'd love to have a good reason to buy some.

Also important to be close to competision as rockminer is close to 1btc for 450-480ghs and little more
so the S3 has to be close to this

[s1gs3gv]

At 20% and $.15 they barely make .8 BTC before they go negative on operating cost at current BTC exchange rate

[Xer0]

over 9k

[TheJuice]

Depends entirely on price. It's going to have to be sub 0.5 btc.

[Pjones]

Interesting results so far, i won't buy unless it's the lowest priced ghs, but if you look at how Bitmain have priced their products in the past, the first batch pricing probably isn't going to be as low as it was for s1, but maybe slightly lower than s2. 

Maybe 90 days after the first batch, we'll start to see the aggressive pricing, maybe sooner if more people held out for faster ROI.

[CTL_ALT_DEL]

Maybe Four, eventually; I would be more likely to buy S1 update kits at first.  Any word on price/availability for those?

Regards,
JR

[nightyj]

Bitmaintech are always the best investment so I will by the more I can 

[Tupsu]

I bought today one Antminer S2 for 2.457BTC and do not intend to buy any S3 .
I need a future  15 sets of the S2 upgrade version Hash Boards, not the obviously overpriced S3.

Of course, I also look forward to buy some Antminer S4.

[taipo]

In reality, many miners would probably just look at their available wallet balance ( which should be climbing since the S1 went out of stock ), divide the available balance by how many S3's they can get, and deal with the PSU and customs costs when the S3s arrive in the country.....

[dropt]

In reality, many miners would probably just look at their available wallet balance ( which should be climbing since the S1 went out of stock ), divide the available balance by how many S3's they can get, and deal with the PSU and customs costs when the S3s arrive in the country.....

I think at a certain point miners should stop spending every last bitcent on more HW and start saving what little BTC they can.

[philipma1957]

In reality, many miners would probably just look at their available wallet balance ( which should be climbing since the S1 went out of stock ), divide the available balance by how many S3's they can get, and deal with the PSU and customs costs when the S3s arrive in the country.....

I think at a certain point miners should stop spending every last bitcent on more HW and start saving what little BTC they can.

I have drawn a few conclusions that are close to yours.

 I have also looked at some facts

1)the summer just started for me in New Jersey USA. 

 2)In the summer 2k watts are my max.

 3)Right now I am at 710 watts. i have 5 blades 6 r-boxes a few fury sticks

4)I ordered 2 more blades so that makes 880 watts. if i get a s-3  i go to 1270 watts

so i may not order the s-3 at all

[iglasses]

In reality, many miners would probably just look at their available wallet balance ( which should be climbing since the S1 went out of stock ), divide the available balance by how many S3's they can get, and deal with the PSU and customs costs when the S3s arrive in the country.....

I think at a certain point miners should stop spending every last bitcent on more HW and start saving what little BTC they can.

That's what I'm doing.  I drained it while I was building up hashrate a little but I haven't added anything since the beginning of May.  If the S3 is priced correctly I will buy a few but I'm not going to empty my wallet and start from scratch again...I like having a balance!

[1l1l11ll1l]

With difficulty exploding like it is, they're gonna have to be blody cheap to make it worthwhile. I can't imagine paying more than .7BTC each