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http://www.butterflylabs.com/order-form-bitforce-sc-mini-rig/ http://www.butterflylabs.com/order-form-bitforce-sc-mini-rig... This might make a lot of GPU setu
by petemc_ 14y ago
http://www.butterflylabs.com/order-form-bitforce-sc-mini-rig/ http://www.butterflylabs.com/order-form-bitforce-sc-mini-rig...
This might make a lot of GPU setups obsolete.
Edit to add more info: I'm told the expected generation output, from 1000000 Mhps, at current difficulty 1751454.53534068, is 574.2818 BTC per day or 23.9284 BTC per hour.
- sp332 14y ago$4,000/day at current exchange rates, it should pay for itself in less than 8 days. Of course the rate of BTC generation will go down over time, but it looks like these rigs would easily pay for themselves for several years yet.
- nullc 14y agoThe bitcoin system adapts itself to keep the rate of coin creation constant. So it's impossible to say what their return will be in the future. Perhaps a few monts later someone puts out a run of 28nm ASICS at 1/4 the price with 4x the performance and they're bought in massive waves.
- sp332 14y agoYes... and maybe a supervolcano under Yellowstone will destroy half the USA. But there's no evidence that will actually happen anytime soon.
- andrewla 14y agoHaven't looked more closely at the numbers here, but there are only 50 * 6 = 300 BTC created per hour. If each of these is averaging 24 BTC per hour, then that's practically 8% of the total computing power in the bitcoin network. That would mean that 13 of these would have more power than the entire network. Even if this were the case, the gains from such a scheme would be short-lived, though, as the difficulty adjusted to compensate. Then you're competing with everyone else who has bought these, and fighting over the marginal cost of electricity vs. the upcoming reduction in the reward.