Quote from: Fordee on April 28, 2015, 06:02:54 PM

As an aside to the general gloomy topics here, I was considering how the mining/manufacturing climate has changed changed in the past year..

Can anyone help me building a list of the Current 2015 marketplace for private/public asic availability in the .28 or better realm??

For example:

Companies that have access to a proven functional .28 or better CHIP for Private Use:
Spondoolies, Bitmain, Bitfury, KNC, BFL

Companies that still produce publicly accessible (and shipping) ASIC miners of .28 or better.
Spondoolies; Bitmain.

Any others come quickly to mind?

I guess I don't have to advise you not to buy from BFL, right?

Yeah, I guess Spondoolies, Bitmain, and BitFury are the most reliable companies out there at the moment. I was wondering for quite some time, whether maybe the harsh climate in the mining business may have also taken its toll on the price of Bitcoin. I guess a large inflow of people interested in mining and the new ASIC hardware pushed the price up back in 2013...