[ExI] Bitcoins Again

Mirco Romanato painlord2k at libero.it
Tue May 14 14:30:55 UTC 2013


Il 14/05/2013 15:39, Gordon ha scritto:
> Kelly Anderson wrote:
> 
>> I've been trying to do an estimate of what I might expect to make if I
>> bought a bitcoin miner from Butterfly Labs, and I thought I'd share my
>> calculations in case any of you found it interesting (and to double
>> check my math... LOL)
> 
> Here is a live stream of an inexpensive Butterfly ASIC in operation:
> 
> http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/05/butterfly_live/
> 
> Pooled, it is mining about 2 BTC per 10 days. That is a fantastic ROI at
> current prices, but I suspect you cannot buy one anytime soon at the
> list price. As I understand it, it is backlogged into the thousands.
> There is no telling what the economics will look like by the time your
> order is filled, if it is ever filled.

Currently the difficulty of mining went up five times from January.
If it keep this, by the end of September it will be up other ten times
from January. The raising appear to be linear, so it is proportional to
the ASIC production (or it appear so to me).

Mirco





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