ADA has six digits for the decimals, not eight like Bitcoin and pretty much most of the cryptocurrencies out there. If you adjust that to compare, we have a 250 million circulating supply, and ajusting for price that means ADA is trading for around $12 right now. So $1 for ADA would be equivalent to triple digits for an eight digits coin, in other words, $100.

This also means that when the max cap is reached, after Shelley and POS is unlocked, ADA will have the eight digits equivalent of 450 millions coins. That's still less than competitors like EOS (1 billion) and Tezos (around 700 million), also remembering that those two have an uncapped max supply.

Here is what the purchase agreement says:
https://eos.io/purchaseagreement/EOS%20Token%20Purchase%20Agreement%20-%20June%2022,%202017.pdf

- EOS TOKENS HAVE NO RIGHTS, USES OR ATTRIBUTES. The EOS Tokens do not have any rights, uses, purpose, attributes, functionalities or features, express or implied, including, without limitation, any uses, purpose, attributes, functionalities or features on the EOS Platform. Company does not guarantee and is not representing in any way to Buyer that the EOS Tokens have any rights, uses, purpose, attributes, functionalities or features.

- NOT A PURCHASE OF EOS PLATFORM TOKENS. EOS Tokens purchased under this Agreement are not tokens on the EOS Platform. Buyer acknowledges, understands and agrees that Buyer should not expect and there is no guarantee or representation made by Company that Buyer will receive any other product, service, rights, attributes, functionalities, features or assets of any kind whatsoever, including, without limitation, any cryptographic tokens or digital assets now or in the future whether through receipt, exchange, conversion, redemption or otherwise.

- PURCHASE OF EOS TOKENS ARE NON-REFUNDABLE AND PURCHASES CANNOT BE CANCELLED. BUYER MAY LOSE ALL AMOUNTS PAID.

- EOS TOKENS MAY HAVE NO VALUE.

- COMPANY RESERVES THE RIGHT TO REFUSE OR CANCEL EOS TOKEN PURCHASE REQUESTS AT ANY TIME IN ITS SOLE DISCRETION.

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Hi, I´m really, really new at this, but I got the idea mining requires new and expensive hardware as bitcoin difficulty ramps up. I´ve also been studying those 50/60 Ghashes/sec ASIC miners, and they aren´t for sell anywhere (some place even unavailable for pre orders).

Where I live, there´s also 100% import taxes fees, which makes the cost of importing ASIC miners for more than $20000 prohibitive, and given the nature of the bitcoin mining process, looks quite risky to spend about $40000 in investments that may become obsolete in the future.

So, to a guy like me, paying shares to join community mining projects would be the best way, or are there better alternatives to profit with mining?