+2297.74% in two years is great by anyone's standards, I'm just trying to wrap my head around how such numbers can be achieved when you clearly have also bought in the 600 range.
Or did you actually stop buying once bitcoin price broke $13?
I want to learn from you, dakota neat, help me.

But you've only joined this forum in June and were buying in the 600s?  Can you explain how you calculate your profits?

What you are suggesting is clockwork determinism, an interesting (and quite tenable) philosophical notion, though one which precludes free will altogether.  In other words, "departing from the original course" is the preprogrammed course.

http://www.coindesk.com/data/bitcoin/
"Avg. time to mine a block 08m 37s"

I quoted the post you have provided.  Please follow your link to read the words "(These are made up numbers)."

I'm surprised by the transparency of bitcoin shilling in this thread, was hoping for a more mature discussion.

With the exception of bitcoin being started a year ago, you're not that far from the truth.

That's not the math behind bitcoin, "(These are made up numbers)" is quoted from the link you have provided.

The hashrate has been consistently at the ATH, because until the last two difficulty adjustments it has been climbing.  Hashrate dropping means miners are shutting off their gear.

I think i see the problem

15% is actually pretty close if we're talking YTD.  Remember, the difficulty was going up in double digits.  In the past 24 hrs, the average time to solve a block is down to 8 min. 37sec.  10 min. blocks would yield 10% inflation, longer=lower inflation; shorter=higher.

That's not math, that's called making silly assumptions and curve fitting.  The curve fits very poorly, BTW, even when plotted over log scale.

Perhaps, but that's not the point.  There are 3,600 bitcoins mined per day when the hashrate is static, more when it is increasing.  The majority of these coins are sold to pay for electricity and upkeep of the mines, bills need to be paid.  This means that even if every bitcoiner just hodls, new money has to come into the system to maintain the price.

In other words, the bitcoin network is printing money at a rate of around 15% per year.  This is just like the FED printing 15% more dollars a year - both debase the underlying currency by 15%.

Seems like your hands are empty, because no volume.
You're not alone tho, pretty much all of the bitcoin faithful pawned their families a while ago to buy coins, now all they can do is watch.

^I take it you've already spent all of your money on bitcoin when it was trading at a much higher price.  Otherwise you'd have money to buy some now.

Since the Soviet days, the Russian people have loved the dollar.  Holding USD wasn't legal back then, but the elite were allowed to convert USD & other hard currencies into scrip called "voluta," with which one could buy pretty much anything in special valuta stores like "Berezka."

If you mean "why does the Russian government make laws against Bitcoin," the answer is for the same reason it makes laws against counterfeit ruble:  It competes with the ruble, it debases the ruble, its creation and issuance can not be controlled by the central bank.

You buy a fixed amount daily, bears dump a fixed amount daily.  It all works out & becomes a part of the wonderful fabric we call the free market.

^Yes, but you need one of those 220 dryer outlets.  Got one?

Not sure what numbers you're looking for -- we've already seen 1110@฿0.00155000   
If you weren't too stubborn to take advice, you would have been at least 3x richer than you are now -- or had 3x as many shares if you don't like money.