I saw a return of capital investment several weeks ago by luck. Paid for a unit with LTC when it was over 160USD a coin; about 11.5LTC all in. LTC dropped like a rock to 60USD while waiting for the pre-order. I figure the best way to judge a return on capital is to auto-exchange the output for the coin spent. The one little Mini has been averaging .25LTC a day on MiningPoolHub using 330watts (OCed to 15,500 sol/s). Has generated about 18LTC to date. I'm still short as of USD but I'd be hurting anyway if I just held (HEDL?) the LTC. Now I have a profit, coin-for-coin.
.25LTC a day on 330watts? Eat your heart out, L3++. Almost like buying Biakal Minis before the Dash price explosion of early 2017.
Yeah I hear ya, was semi frustrating last year Id be buying hardware and I always had more USD, but I was holding less and less coins! lol
Now this year with an opposite market.. we are getting the reverse, more coins and less USD
In the long game, seems more appealing to me
Those miners were awesome @ that time lol, my baikalminer mini was definitely one of my favorite miners.. was also my first ASIC so maybe I have a soft spot for it xD