I'm surprised at the KW/h costs. I haven't seen anything so low in a long time. Before we put the solar in, our costs went two to three times higher because the more power we used, the higher the cost was. The solar put us back into the low cost usage.

I had posted something similar a while back. I sometimes get the sense that the serious players simply want to discourage new people from taking part but at the same time, the math that everyone shares makes a lot of sense too.

It is interesting to me that I cannot get involved in something as interesting as bitcoin is considering the resources that I have at hand. One of the main reasons I am interested in because I hate monopolies and from what I have read, bitcoin could be a way to change things a little, perhaps until those monopolies better understand how to take over at least.

I have watched this happen countless times in technology, where there is an amateur interest which turns into something viable, then it becomes quite large in the internet community, then the monopolies find a way of getting involved and ultimately often taking over and ending opportunities for the masses.

I am not sure where bitcoin is headed. I get that sense of people discouraging others so they won't bother getting involved but I am also given much information which keeps saying don't bother.

Why have things changed so quickly that bitcoin is already looking like a downhill opportunity for most and what is the future opportunity if someone is interested in things which could actually change the world.