Wise this newbie is!

I've been predicting their future behaviour based on their past behaviour.

They usually go dead silent when they are fucking people over. That's their typical behaviour, proved many times before.

They were dead silent at the end of September. They were dead silent coming up to the 15th October. They were dead silent about November Jupiter's delays until the day they were supposed to start shipping them.

The last two months of silence - you could be sure they were planning something mega shitty

Just a matter of piecing together the byteminr announcement in December to their hardware supplier to guess what that was.

And yes, this certainly explains the major difficulty rises in December etc. It could only have been caused by a major asic company shipping high hashrate machines in bulk.

I too am frustrated by not right now having new KnC gear hashing.  Thing is I look at my Neptune pre-order and look at the present relative superiority of Jupiters over the competition and the Jupiter profitability track record, and I expect the Neptune will have a similar relationship to the competition when it fields.  

That's not to say all of us might not get screwed, KnC machine owners somewhat less than others.  Screwed if dark horse mining farms get super cheap gear of their own manufacture in an overwhelming way.

So, what would be the alternative?  Leave mining and buy btc for its appreciation?  We know the banks aren't going to quit scamming the general public with currency expansion.  We know peace isn't going to reign on into the far foreseeable future, Syria and the Sudan not withstanding, and that would mean money movement into Bitcoin.  Some questions are: a) how long do we have to wait for KnC gear, b) will all the KnC gear made available be sold to pre-existing customers or will the numbers of miners be such that it will be open to the general public.  Like those dark horse mining farms turning their btc into Neptune purchases, c) how bad will the network hashrate get and how soon?

Doesn't matter, when new knc arrives in March, ghash will be nothing. There are no incumbents in Bitcoin

Rapecoin

People are going to be mining for as long as Bitcoin exists. It is never too late.

However, it might be difficult to make a profit right now because too many people are mining at a loss, and they bring down the profits for all miners.

If you want to start mining with little investment, you might try mining alt coins with your graphics card or CPU (depending on the coin).

so newb. so gullible. such wow.