I think this was the third batch. Anyway, you might want to follow Bitmain twitter account - that's where they announced the time:

https://twitter.com/BITMAINtech

Based on experience, Batch 4 will be next Month.
They need to churn out BITCOIN Miner to stay in the game. Since BITMAIN is mining BCH, there will be machines for sale soon.

It's out of stock currently.

That is about what I came up with also is we will be lucky to see $10 a day out of these... And that may be a little to optimistic.  All depends on how many miners they are shipping from each of the vendors and what Bitmain is going to be shipping.  Maybe you'll catch a break if Bitmain sales choke off the sales of the other miners.  Hard to know.

I know my Baikal's are just getting destroyed already so I don't think they will continue to run for a lot longer with the way things are collapsing already.

are they supposed to release the batch now at 11pm est?

wow i think i was a day late.. it's aug 11 here and the time clock showed 11am in gmt+8 is 11pm in est.. but im 24 hours late it seems NOooo

I got caught up in the hype...

I was NOT gonna get one....which worked out because I could NOT get into the product page

BUT a buddy saw I was on...(longsnowsm thanks) and was frantically bashing refresh and got 1 extra so he had an extra in his cart.

thus ..we talked on the phone for 1 hour plus while he hit F5 over and over to get in ..for the heck of it...hell we were on the phone anyway

and viola got in and it let him pay...but literally 2 hrs later...he got into the cart and got a LTC address up

so...conflicted ...not entirely sure it will be a great bet on ROI with the of x11 equip hitting the world

but got swept up with the rest of you lemmings as I was swept off the ASIC x11 pre-order cliff

my only saving grace was that I was at LEAST for a bit a 'reluctant lemming"

still, think this particular unit buy .might go pear shaped..roi wise before its a doorstop

we will see (we all in this together boys and girls)

(damn, I've no frigging will power....following you guys...a bunch of homo sapiens hairless monkeys hooting and tossing FUD..yeah this will work out just dandy)

yeah, well....i did not much care..till he hit the F5 and got the cart address up..then he was like..'well, do you want to pay now that I got the amount and LTC address up"

shocked I was

so, of course, I folded like a tent ....I mean, everyone else wants one........and scrambling..so of course NOW it is too attractive for me to pass up

(I mean I've just watched the other lemmings lose their minds in bitcointalk bitmain thread the last few hours)

so whatever....odd way to impulse buy thou....thru a fat fingered friends 1) extra unit in a cart 2) bored and hitting F5 as we chatted on phone...I guess it

became a quest to stick me with one..in that he got two previously!!!!

(ack! it's a trap ack!)

much like this place if anyone remembers...."I'm not a number 6" (I doubt anyone is old enough to remember this show)



Prisoner on ASIC Island...trapped with the other lemmings.....

a 2nd D3 (got one the other batch at $2,600 ..I thought I'd learned my lesson...now this one at $1,500)

frack..just a 'number' to bitmain indeed (bitmain tm evil)

mining and value are not related.

price of a coin is based on what someone else is willing to pay for it. you could mine 10 or you could mine 100 million, if no one wants to buy, it'll be worth zero.

likewise, if a dump happens, it will drown out buyers and crash the coin value. LTC got dumped and recovered 2 years later. DASH wont be as dramatic if a dump ever happens, due to masternodes, but the idea remains the same.

Dont associate mining difficulty with coin dollar value. You can get dissapointed the hard way.

Sure mate because coz we all know ROI always will stays constant at 10 bucks a month and difficulty and all other factors wont reduce it. lol!

There are two factors here. You have new network hash from new equipment and old marginally profitable hash. My point is, the ratio of old to new miners is important. With more established and larger network hash rates like Bitcoin, even when a new miner comes out, it has an impact but there is an attrition effect i.e. older miners at the end of their life are pushed off the feasibility edge and decommissioned. The result is that the NET network hash rate increase isn't 100%. Also the percentage increase in has rate is manageable. So in the case of something like SHA256 or scrypt you see that.

When Bitmain launched their L3+, you did see a significant difficulty increase but it wasn't x10 or anything. That's because scrypt has a decent hash rate and also many coins to mine. X11 is smaller and the new miners are a much bigger leap up so difficulty will increase a lot. Let's look at the payback though on a D3.

If you had an engineering sample today (someone has them somewhere then your payback according to my calculations and the latest pricing would be a whopping 10 days. That assumes a power cost of around $0.075 (that's what CloudSigma sees in an average location, not the cheapest, not the most expensive). So ten days is clearly extreme, when the other D3s hit what will happen? Firstly understand there are THREE other major upgrades that came out within a month. You have:
- Baikal Giant+
- ibelink
- Dominator A5
- Antminer D3 (clearly biggest volume but not biggest hashrate, the A5 gets that price at up to 38Ghz overclocked)

So if difficulty goes x20 then you are at 200 days for a D3 payback assuming the same price for Dash. If it's x40 then 400 days. I think x40 is the outside amount and it will be less than that. So yeah D3 isn't a get rich quick opportunity unless Dash pricing goes up a lot. Speaking of this, interest is definitely increasing and having all these mining manufacturers drawing interest can only help so I would expect Dash price to start tracking up over the next six months.

In short D3 should be economically viable but it won't have some super quick payback unless you were lucky enough to bag a first batch unit (which was very limited). The main downside will be people with cloud mining contracts or old generation miners which for sure will become economically untenable after these new units hit the market.

Interested to hear others' feedback on my thoughts above!

Robert