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by stevedc3 3042 days ago
Thanks yes I totally meant scale. Main cost of new ASIC chips is design and fabrication. Only serve a very narrow specific purpose and all that cost is sunk. But after that, unit production chip cost is negligible.
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do you happen to know b/e costs given difficulty/profitability ratio using current market electricity prices?