Mining estimations...

[mah87]

hello @ll

 Do you think that asic will be profitable only for the first batch and that 2batch will never get their money back ?
 What are your worst estimation ? better ?

thx a lot 

[tHash]

Calculate based on a network difficulty of maybe 500 tH/s after the first couple months, by the end of 2013 the network will probably be at 1000+ tH/s.   If you are comfortable with taking one year+ to get your investment back, then go for it . . .

[bcpokey]

*Never* get your money back? That would be hard based on the devices efficiencies. Would require high Elec prices, dropping BTC value, skyrocketing difficulty, late delivery, and low Hash/J+$/Hash ratios.

A long ass time to get your money back? That's very probable.

Tons of calculators out there, bitcoinx.com, http://bitcoineering.appspot.com/simulator, http://tpbitcalc.appspot.com/, etc.

Plug in numbers that sound right to you and then have a think about it. No one really knows what will happen, so your guess is good as anyone elses.

That dude above me sounds reasonable, but he could be totally wrong.