How about we both just say Fuck You and move on.

Picked up 7x480's for fun. MB and parts arrive Monday. Even at $1.75/d after elec during low profitability times it looks like these cards break even quicker, but then I guess they get out paced by newer faster cards and there goes your actual profit. Which makes hobby mining itself seem like madness. You guys got determination. I'm looking for the real business angle here. I work next to countless engineering geniuses with free reign to solicit grants and hire programmers. That's why I gave DJ props. Presumably he made a decent return on his time invested, which is what interests me. I'm debating using my orgs' business incubator to put together a non-profit (no tax on mining, reinvest while gaining market share then go for profit), hire grad CS programmers to make and sell custom miners to the existing big farms (unless they can't consistently code the best versions), and use our EE's to crack asic's on previously gpu-only algos. Because mining alone with US tax, facilities, energy, maintenance, and other overhead costs looks unprofitable or highly risky as an investment over any appreciable time frame.