Thought it would be around 42 trillion difficulty by march 2015 with 30% monthly increase... how are the home hobbyist and tinkerers even going to make a dent with difficulty skyrocketing. I miss the days of Gpu mining...

I've decided not to due to the estimate difficulty of when the Neptunes will finally arrive to the public, it would not be worth it for me to mine BTC with them. If it won't break ROI or barely go above ROI then it is not worth to buy 3 of them since I would just be increasing my loss.

The Neptunes won't even break ROI even if you have it up and running on the first day of april.

http://mining.thegenesisblock.com/a/5789931a97

If BTC rises to $1500 and stabilizes at that price as a minimum, then it would be worthwhile investment kind of. With the electrical cost, hardware cost, it would make $6100 for me (With BTC being at $1500 minimum, higher then there would be more profit in the conversion from digital currency to fiat dollar money). If major places accepted BTC as payment, then I would be all in and drop the $.

From what I've noticed, Difficulty has jumped up more then 41% in December alone. which is astonishing compared to how the difficulty used to rise early this year. The rise of ASIC in the market is pushing out the home made, gpu rigs that we have. We can of course mine other crypto currencies with those setups.


I'm all for our home made rigs, and thought maybe an investment into the ASIC rigs would hit ROI and make some money since it seems that is the next wave of mining to be done. But by the time we can actually get them, they will never hit ROI and cost us money.

evga 770gtx at 247 khash/s mining scrypt, bitcoin mining I get around 280 mhash/s

But looking at http://mining.thegenesisblock.com/a/fb4d2a2d82 for both the KNCMiner Neptune and Cointerra IV, they would not be profitable mining bitcoins by the time I would be able to get one, which both seems to be around april. If I had one this month of December, it would be very profitable to have.


what are your opinions on this matter. What would you guys do? I cannot post in the custom hardware section so I must ask this here.