Have some patience these investments are not "get rich quick" schemes. When buying a contract that says "2-years" one should make a mental note that its a 2-year contract and not a "win big in a couple of months!" contract. You might as well go hit the slot machines if that's your mentality.
WTF are you talking about?
Of course these are get-rich-quick shemes.
There is no other purpose for them.
If you don't understand what difficulty and available hashrate do to your ROI then you should look for another game to play.
It is a game of diminishing ROI.
The situation is (and has been for years) that you will have to make the bulk of your ROI in the first few months.
If you didn't make most of it in a few months then
no amount of years will help you get more than you already got.
If you don't "
win big in a couple of months!" you will probably lose. Waiting 2 years to understand this is just noob.
If you beliefe that mining hardware can hold value for 2 years then you are seriously
seriously deluded. Any hashrate you may think is worth something now will be obsolete within half a year, max.
So, in other words, there is no such thing as a long-term investment in bitcoin mining hardware unless you happen to sell it.Although I have to re-iterate that the "beast" of a mining rig CH has created - maintained in a data center with "bulk" or "wholesale" electricity pricing - may ultimately smash competitors like "cognitive mining" and the buy-and-wait butterfly cloudhashing contracts.
And did you realize that by exposing so much haspower they proportionally decrease the ROI of all their customers as well?
Any hashpower they add competes directly with all other miners and that includes their customers.
'Smashing competitors' means effectively the same thing as 'smashing customers'.
For instance what's going to happen as several large mining pools join up to create huge pools with corporate style business models and cheaper electricity.
What will happen is they will buy more hardware and thus make the ROI of existing customers less.
I'm still new to studying the nature of bitcoin
Study more and harder.