Well at some point the margins for profit for the smaller miners become so small it's not worth selling. If it costs Bitmain $25 to ship, $10 for packaging, and $25 for support and warranty work then they're losing $60 to overhead. It may be cheaper for them to just sell it to themselves or to other companies in bulk.
Some are guessing they're going to stop end user sales shortly to keep difficulty from going up.
Are you saying they will just sit on the equipment and not use it for a period of time? That makes no business sense to me unless all manufacturers agree to do the same - which I can't imagine will happen.
Am confused here..
Not confusing 200ph mining today.
150ph is in the hands of asic builders
50ph in our hands or someone like cloudhashing pbmining.
the top builders can build 1th for under 300usd maybe as low as 100usd.
my evidence is asicminer sell and ships 8.5th for 7.9btc. this is in the form of 10 tubes. 7.9 btc is about 3800 usd.
so they can sell 8.5th for 3800 assembled and shipped and turn a profit.
they are selling 1th for about 450 usd and making money on it.
Many other companies one like antminer can sell 2 s-3's for 1.16 btc and make money this is about 500 usd for 1th as the new units can do closer to 500gh.
Right now AM has a cloud setup once they go cloud they do not need to sell us miners.
cex.io pulls in tons with the cloud.
GAwminers pulls in tons with a cloud.
zoomhash pbmining
just mine in house and slowly sell some off in cloud form to suckers (oh customers) Fully cutting the in house guy right out.
