"Very small BTC investment"

".25 BTC"

Careful dude, that's over 50 bucks right now

Hi all,

Does anyone have any news on the Instawallet situation and it's specifics? The website, Instawallet.org, has been saying "In the next few days" they'll be opening up a claim service for quite a while now. Is the claim service not on Instawallet.org, but somewhere else? I had .25ish BTC in there and I'd hate to lose it because I didn't start a claim process in time

So LTC is the way to go? Isn't it a matter of time until ASIC moves onto those?

So I've already begun to order my mining hardware for a dedicated rig, and I just read about this Butterfly Labs computers that are supposedly going to "destroy bitcoin" and "make our mining operations complete garbage", if you've read any of the posts around here.

What I'm wondering is, will the difficulty rise so much after the advent of these machines that mining will not even pay for electricity on low end machines? I mean, if our low end mining rigs can't pay themselves off within the first year like most people hope, they may at least pay for their own electricity, right?

Cost of computer - cost of electricity < Cost of computer

So, obviously, us normal human beings will continue to mine as long as our rigs pay for their own juice.

Does anyone on this board have enough wizard status regarding the difficulty to safely predict when our power bills with usurp our hash rates in size? I'm okay if my rig doesn't pay for all of itself, as far as I'm concerned, I get another gaming rig that at least paid off a portion of itself.