Im wondering if it might be better for those of us who have requested a refund to actually get our miner built. This way we can hopefully mine with it and attempt to sell it for USD.
Steamboats delivered on the miners, just not on the refunds for assembly/hosting/etc.
With the miners you are getting ~.08 BTC per month for each klondike. It will be .06 BTC per klondike next month. Thats $45-$55 USD per month gradually decreasing on top of the time spent on tweaking/monitoring/repairing whatever happens.
I would rather go with the refund in BTC at the locked value of ~$125 per BTC that Steamboat mentioned in his latest post.
I.e. Not including your chips being refunded (which by all means go ahead and get those refunded too). For the ~$50 per klondike refund on the fully assembled option =
$50/$125 = .40 BTC per Klondike ( a value right now of ~$300 if you plan on cashing it out),
And .40 BTC is a ton per klondike considering Bitcoin WILL very likely make bitcoineers into millionaires if held on to for the years to come:
Article:Lee is adamant that, in the long run, the price will continue to increase until it hits the price range of a globally-adopted asset. He added:
With simple math and using some logic, you can quickly compute that globally adopted asset price. You would calculate and compare the circulation value, against the average holding times the number of people using bitcoins.
Lee sees the value increasing as more and more people become interested in digital currency, likening interest in bitcoin to interest in the Internet back in the early days.
In the mid-1990s, the technical folks were the early adopters and the first to recognize the benefits. Then, over time and with more press coverage, the mainstream joined the party, he explained.
Unlike the Internet, the adoption and popularity of digital currency can be directly tracked and measured, using the price of bitcoin.