Quote from: mt_bird on June 09, 2013, 08:43:56 PM

I think the future of bitcoin is largely in the hands of the ASIC manufacturers. If they keep most of the ASICs for themselves, they may end up controlling a significant chunk (maybe even most) of the bitcoin network once the remaining GPU miners have left. We would then have a situation where the network's computing power (and most of the newly mined bitcoins) are concentrated between a relatively small number of ASIC manufacturers. If that happens, I could see it crashing the value of bitcoin, but it could be good for the scrypt-based alt coins.

Exactly!!! Those big fishes will swallow up everything and leave us small tiny leftovers....

Even with the higher bitcoin price now, I get far less I used to.
I used to get more a few years ago with graphic cards than with the bunch of usb erupter sticks now.
Thank you BFL, Avalon and others for not delivering! Leaving me with just a bunch expensive usb sticks Tongue