what will we do with all those obsolete asics in a few months?

[madsusies]

Do you think there is gonna be any use for all those useless asics? can it be hacked to do something else?

Basically in EU is a law where you can return stuff and ask money back (in case knc you pay VAT which means they can paly dead birth), in my case mercury stop mining after 20min is just waisting of electricity the firmware do not solve the problem

[DeathAndTaxes]

The more efficient ASICs aren't going to be obsolete in a few months at least not in low power cost areas.  What is going to obsolete a 0.8 J/GH miner ... someone buying another 0.8 J/GH miner?  Why would they if it is obsolete?  If they don't how did the first one become obsolete.

For difficulty to go up someone has to be deploying hardware. Now the BFL 65nm stuff, ASICMiner, Avalon, etc yeah that is likely going into the trash in 2014 but I say it is more like summer 2014.  It will get traded from people with high power (who should never have considered mining to begin with) to those with low power and then from their to the trash heap.

[klee]

Is mining an sha256 alt not worth the trouble?