Well,it's been eventful week with new Antminer release, BTC and other cryptocurrency prices dropping and then going up again at different rates as well as payments for hashing power being in a bit of turmoil as well. Busy week as usual for me working night shift and watching kids during day while still trying to follow everything that's happening in cryptoworld; max 4 hours sleep per day.
Low prices has definitely opened some investment opportunities and some profit was to be made exchanging different cryptos as the prices changed at different rates.
Next to discuss is Antminer A3 release, by the looks of it there have been 15k sold so far and i did not buy one, but a lot less than estimated 150k of D3's but this may change with further batches being released. At the moment it should bring profitability down to $20 per day if no further units ship and Siacoin price stays the same. There has been a lot of uproar in community and there are couple of other Blake 2b miners coming out in near future. The official Obelisk miner coming out in June will have similar hashrate but below 500W power consumption compared to 1200W A3, Halong promise 4x more powerful miner at 1000w but no time given. Obelisk miner supposedly have some extra circuitry built in for possible future algo change by fork if required and supported by community which would render other Blake 2b ASIC's useless.
My Onda motherboards arrived today but have not tried them out yet. No way 3 slot wide Vegas i ordered from Amazon will fir, even double slot cards are very tight. Here is a picture with a dodgy reference RX480 on it. The motherboard does have inboard video even if it was advertised as not having one.
RX Vega 56 prices have gone through the roof with even preorder and used cards on e-bay being in £700 range. The ones i ordered from amazon.fr are still best price but long waiting time and qty is now limited to 3.
https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B07...5RDHNB96&psc=1