Where to Buy miners?

[Rampion]

Then where I can get a miner earlier than July?

Get a GPU or buy an Avalon #1 at aprox. $50,000

[deep0]

You can buy it off other people for a lot of money

[deep0]

Most Sites Are Scams

I agree, only Avalon and Butterfly Labs are legit (the latter only seems to be legit, as no one received their shipment yet)

[scribby182]

I'd suggest building your own GPU miner.  It isn't difficult to do, and you can get plenty of advice for mining hardware on here.  What is your budget?  I bet we could find you parts on NCIX or Newegg (assembled and everything) for that same price that add up to a much better miner than these pre-built sites offer.  They're charging a premium for the expertise you can find on here for free. 

I built a personal computer this week, for example, that isn't purpose built for bitcoin mining and still beats the price/MHash that I see in some of the adds on this website.  It is very easy.

[WGates]

Is mining coins really an opportunity today? What is the best thread for anyone trying to figure out if mining is viable for newbie?

[HuiBu]

The systems from Butterfly Labs will blast the btc buble away 

[scribby182]

Depends on what you mean by opportunity.  Can you mine more than you use in electricity using GPUs right now? Yes, definitely.

ASICs could (and are) change that...  Although some would suggest that you just move to LTC as BTC becomes tough to mine with GPUs.  Lots of others will also move to LTC (or other currencies) as BTC becomes unprofitable though, so it isn't as good a hedge as you might think.

You can also take the risk and buy an ASIC miner, although that is a gamble all to its own.

[odin.dillinger]

With my avalon batch 3 machine I will take over the world. mohahaha!

[blackarrow]

would you consider fpga?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=186850.0

[alwaysunknown]

Just build your own, its easier to put together a computer then people who havent put one together think

[schoralous]

Just build your own, its easier to put together a computer then people who havent put one together think

You do realize that when ASIC's are a reality, and that will happen, FGPU's and GPU mining will be no good anymore since the difficulty will be increased so high that they are unable to be used, just like what happened to CPU mining.

So my point is, I would not spend the money to build a kick ass box right now, only to see it become obsolete and useless for mining inside of a year.