Back to the days when pre-orders are the fucking norm. I'll never understand how so many people are happy to give interest free loans to their competition for magic money machines. Whats even funnier as you point out is that in so many cases buying and holding is a vastly better investment especially when you actually think about the risk/reward ratio!
Mining is a bet AGAINST difficulty increase... Based on current coin price and supply of equipment that is not
a bet many folks will win.
Welcome back all investomers you are the wet dream of your competition!
It is all coming back around isn't it. I guess if I was a smart sociopath, I would take a page from gigahash from back then and sell 'mining bonds' equal to 10x my actual mining capacity priced as if they will pay weekly at today's difficulty for the next 20 years.
Who am I kidding? There are probably 100 ICOs offering exactly that already.
At least this time, I'm smart enough to let the fools lose their money without trying to be a hero and save them from their own stupidity.