effectively negating any performance increase that people would get from it.
It is exactly how mining works
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It always worked like that. Mining is not a get rich quick scheme. Mining is profitable? Everyone start mining until it reach a neutral level.
Note that this apply to the established miners too. You can buy an ASIC exactly like they can. If it is not profitable for you, then it isn't for them too, unless they have cheaper electricity
Yeah you're right, but whilst i can afford a couple of entry level ASIC, the established miner can buy multiple top end ASIC's which widens the gap between them and me, as it stands i'm in the ozco pool, the top three miners have a combined total of 1.216GH/s and 3.7million shares (about 1/3 the GH/s and 1/3 the current share pool)
It's like the 1% compared to the 99% there's no way to close that gap.
Oh and see you can get the entry level BFL thing... Umm.. BFL isn't shipping anything to any end user except air, and they don't know when they will (2 weeks, 2 weeks, it's sounding like that movie the money pit!)
this is a good point too by centlove, those top 3 in the pool can't possibly have BFL and yet they're still already that powerful, the Avalon batch can only be bought for 64(ish)btc / $8768 given the current exchange and as the top three are earning multiple btc per block already is there any possible way to turn a profit in the market?