Quote from: mechatronic on May 26, 2011, 07:01:24 PM

I generated some btc a while ago, then I ignored it for awhile. Credit to the early adopters for sticking with mining. That said, I feel like the current "wealth" in the btc economy is divided amongst those few early adopters, and in the blink of an eye mining became unfeasible. I'd like to get more involved by creating a client/exchange, along with a mining mini-farm, but at the same time I feel like I've missed the boat. This strawman analysis if taken at face-value confirms it - I think. In my pool I am generating about 1 btc / 40h with two 5870's on a rapid downward trend.

The main reason I am interested in btc is due to the mining tech/ distributed clients etc. Now that mining is moving out of reach of the individual, I wonder if the community will shift from tech-centric to business / investor centric.

I can relate.

For the last two years or I'd been looking on and off for some kind of interesting distributed computing project to contribute to. I just find the entire field fascinating. I'm a little sad that bitcoin flew right under my radar.

I don't worry about it though.

I fully expect that the network will get back to "normal" as the hype wears off over the next month or so and the big holders get antsy and crash the market a few times by profit taking.

Like anything else, bitcoin will die or become stronger.

The thing that really has me thinking now isn't the technology as much as wondering just how long this purely speculative economy can survive?