Its true, ASICS are profitable. Back in September I bought 10 block erupters. I was told that there is no ROI but that didn't matter to me. I was interested in them more for nostalgic reasons. I like to collect old computers and equipment. So I figured I would buy a piece of history. Well, in 30 years it will be.
So anyways, back on topic. I tried to mine BTC with them.. LOL that was funny.. So I pointed them at alt coins. Tigercoin, Zetacoin, Joulecoin, Deutch emarks. All of these are worth something now. I erupters have ROI'ed at least 10x over in 2 months.
I mined bitcoin, namecoin, devcoin, groupcoin, ixcoin, i0coin, coiledcoin and geistgeld all at once, merged.
That is why I bought the eruptors: I was worried that at any moment the extremely easy coins would become difficult due to a public pool picking them up.
Sure enough, mmpool picked I0Coin back up again and at the same time picked up GRouPcoin too, so I had been right to get those eruptors quick to grab some quick before that happened. I am still raking in CoiLedCoin and GeistGeld because luckily the pools have not picked them up yet.
But yeah I did also get to pick up a bunch of different crapcoins that are no way ever going to be secure unless maybe they eventually take up merged mining.
That though was after my larger rigs arrived so I could spare the eruptors for penny-ante stuff because my larger rigs were taking care of the merged mining.
-MarkM-