Given the low cost of electricity in operations of scale, and the high capital cost of infrastructure, labour, etc, if they had more efficient hardware being phased in but purposely left some of their power capacity un-used, logic would dictate that would be leaving money on the table. Lost revenue due to increases in difficulty by adding new hashrate to the network by maximizing existing infrastructure has got to be significantly less than the amount lost due to new, efficient miners sitting around un-powered.
no it is not. because growing network hash rate is pointless without price rising.
If I have 20 ph in s-5's = 10.4 megawatts
if I have 21ph in s-7's = say 7 megawatts. I save 3.4 megawatts in power cost. network looks the same in diff. tiny limit to growth
these charts show it has happened this way since Jan 12. 2015 tiny growth ,but replace your farm with better gear.
offer the older gear at a high price s-5's at 400 usd avalon 4.1's at 550 usd
Difficulty History
Date Difficulty Change Hash Rate
Jun 14 2015 49,692,386,355 4.42% 355,711,957 GH/s
May 31 2015 47,589,591,154 -2.50% 340,659,563 GH/s
May 17 2015 48,807,487,245 2.44% 349,377,603 GH/s
May 03 2015 47,643,398,018 0.07% 341,044,727 GH/s
Apr 19 2015 47,610,564,513 -3.71% 340,809,696 GH/s
Apr 05 2015 49,446,390,688 5.84% 353,951,052 GH/s
Mar 22 2015 46,717,549,645 -1.50% 334,417,246 GH/s
Mar 08 2015 47,427,554,951 1.59% 339,499,662 GH/s
Feb 22 2015 46,684,376,317 5.01% 334,179,783 GH/s
Feb 09 2015 44,455,415,962 7.71% 318,224,263 GH/s
Jan 27 2015 41,272,873,895 -6.14% 295,442,739 GH/s
Jan 12 2015 43,971,662,056 8.20% 314,761,417 GH/s
trend was not as strong below as only a few big players began to understand this strategy .
Dec 30 2014 40,640,955,017 3.00% 290,919,288 GH/s
Dec 17 2014 39,457,671,307 -1.37% 282,449,013 GH/s
Dec 02 2014 40,007,470,271 -0.73% 286,384,627 GH/s
Nov 18 2014 40,300,030,328 1.76% 288,478,854 GH/s
Nov 05 2014 39,603,666,252 10.05% 283,494,086 GH/s
Oct 23 2014 35,985,640,265 2.81% 257,595,247 GH/s
Oct 09 2014 35,002,482,026 0.98% 250,557,526 GH/s
Now sfards has a few choices
1)fuck this I am selling tons of gear to anyone and everyone- thus price wars and big diff jumps which would pissoff big players.
2)or go small make some 100 piece private sales. don't sell many on site kind of what avalon did with the 4.1
3) do something else and surprise us.