October 24, 2013: 553Gh/s gets 1 BTC/day @ a cost of $12366 (9.25 BFL singles from ebay) ($22.36/Gh/s)
October 26, 2013: 778Gh/s gets 1 BTC/day @ a cost of $16900 (13 BFL singles from ebay) ($21.72/Gh/s)
November 05 2013: 1016Gh/s gets 1 BTC/day @ a cost of $22013 (17 BFL singles from ebay) ($21.66/Gh/s)

November 17, 2013: 1212Gh/s gets 1 BTC/day @ a cost of $42,420 (20.2 BFL singles from ebay) ($35/Gh/s)

The prices of ASIC units for immediate delivery has increased dramatically over the last few weeks with bidding wars erupting over available units. There is a massive shortage of ASIC miners in relation to the demand due to slow production, and increased demand due to the rapidly increasing value of BTC.

I was hoping to substitute the ASICMiner cube this week for the 60Gh/s BFL units, but they immediately sold out and are not available even on the secondary markets such as Ebay in any quantity. I must say it was unexpected that the price per gh/s increased. It appears that this trend will continue until some company can provide higher hashing units at a lower cost. Many are promising to do so, but none have any available for immediate delivery at this time.

The cost to mine 1btc/day has quadrupled in less than one month. If this trend continues it will be over $100,000 before Christmas.

Hi

If I put in $1000 in this, what kind of profits should I see. Am I better holding on to that $1000 in bitcoin?

I hit ROI off 9 asics 1 died a month into my fault i guess :/ but still hit it thanks to bitcoin gaining significant value if bitcoin was not worth as much it would have taken me alot longer. That being said Buy BTC do not mine had i invested the 250$ in btc i would have made much more. But i had fun setting everything up and still have them running lol

There is no such thing as a R9 280. Nothing is listed on manufacturer's pages or retailer websites.

The rolling update of a new chip is for the R9 280X.

The chip and naming progression are as follows:
Tahiti XT (7970) -> Tahiti XT2 (7970 GHz, early R9 280X) -> Tahiti XTL (R9 280X)

Man are people so fucking stupid, or so fucking lazy? Typing just "Who gets the transaction fees" in google, the first 50 hit's give you the answer. WAY LESS hassle then fucking making a thread about it?? 

If you just realized that there are bitcoin trojans, ehhhh.. Do a system scan then.
 They've been out since bitcoin caught traction, sadly enough..
 
 Between getting hundreds of bot's to mine for you.
 Injecting code into your client to steal from you.
 Setting up on-demand keylogger to capture your keys for your wallet.
 etc.