Let me be the devil's advocate:
Mining now not profitable. Even at sub 10c / KWh
At around $510 and a looming diff. increase of almost 25% in less than a week I pity the guys now taking delivery of their shiny new SP30s. Not that I am making money with my SP10 and these parameters either...
I unfortunately resemble those remarks above.
I do take solace in this small thought.... IF bitcoin survives it will say 5 years matter much less in HOW you got your bitcoin in that you got your bitcoin NOW
at say the prices below $1000 usd ....it may not have been as good as just buying coin vs mining....but wtf you probably would not have speculated as much $$
directly at btc (at least as a newbie like me) with out that first miner anyway! So if the mega bulls are right and btc someday hits say a modest 3k a coin...well
we can do what all people do with luck and wealth...lie like a rug that it was all due to our 'amazing financial foresight' ...another way of saying stupid/lucky/right circumstances
(hey if your gonna drink the kool aid you may as well get a 'pleasant buzz' off the stuff)
Searing