For what it is worth, just to kind of throw a thought out there -

ASICs generate crypto coins.  Crypto coins have value.  If I were an ASIC developer, I would not be interested in having random people test them.  I could simply test run the rigs in a lab, or basement or wherever, and collect coins.

I suppose maybe along the lines of why Ben Bernanke doesn't have beta testers for his US dollar printing press 

There are sites out there that allow you to earn bitcoins for free - I think that may be more productive than the 1 ASIC miner.

Hope that this may help 

I predict that in the next 8 weeks or so, you will see BTC's difficulty explode, and a lot of people will be crying over their $10,000 ASIC preorder.  "Difficulty" doesn't make sense to the buyers, all they see is money, so spending thousands on something that is unlikely to produce even a break-even return on investment makes sense to them.  Those who got in on the Avalon batch #1 ASICs and those who received their BFL orders recently are the winners.  The ones selling ASICs are the huge winners.  The rest will be left holding bags of ASICs.

Just my humble opinion 

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Mining alt scrypt coins is still profitable.  I would avoid mining sha-256 coins, ASICs eat them alive and spike the difficulty.

So what you would do, is mine scrypt coins and immediately sell them for BTC (in most cases)

Here are a few sites to get you started.

http://www.wheretomine.com/
http://www.coinwarz.com/cryptocurrency

Trade them for btc here:
http://www.cryptsy.com/

Have fun, get ahold of some good ATI Radeon GPUs (don't bother with Nvidia), and get ready to rack up some BTC 

I certainly hope that all goes well for you.

I would definitely recommend using an escrow service (John K) if possible for those types of transactions.  If they refuse to use escrow, I would avoid them.

 

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