Bitcoin ASIC Miner from BFL, finally

The more people get excited about faster ways to hoard bitcoins and eventually make a nice profit (presumably in USD in the end) the dramatically more cynical I become about its future. When the bitcoin discussion was mainly around its use as a currency for things like silkroad, VPNs etc I actually thought it seemed to have a promising future. I really hope I'm wrong, but I have a feeling in 2023 the bitcoin discussion will be relegated to nostalgic jokes about how crazy we used to be.

I doubted that these ASIC rigs would ship any time soon. Wouldn't it be more profitable for the vendors to simply to delay/cancel orders and run the rigs 24/7 themselves?

I work this out to be about 180 Mhash/J, which is 80-100x more energy efficient than any GPU mining.<p>Also, for anyone wondering: At current difficulty and rate of exchange this will cost you &#60;$0.10 a day to run and generate $40 of Bitcoin.

selling shovels and pick-axes to miners was always much more lucrative than being a prospector - plus ca change

The heat is of course a byproduct of the higher wattage, but I wonder what on earth happened to make them miss the wattage target by 6-7x?

I ordered the 60gh/s SC Single the night preorderes opened like a year ago. I think there are maybe ~7 orders before me. I hope I get it soon. I paid 220 btc@5.45 usd for it, let's see if its worth it.

Arrived just after the peak too.

I'm sure with enough digging around I could find this out for myself, but could someone familiar with things comment on how the performance of these boxes compares to a standard ATI card miner?

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That is the current expected bitcoin per gigahash earning rate?

I thought they had been ripped off by their suppliers and they just never got wise to it.