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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Alpha Technology Litecoin (Scrypt) ASIC Miner Development
by
anderl
on 16/01/2014, 16:59:59 UTC
Who is actually expecting to earn their investment back with these ASICs? If diff keeps rising you may never earn your investment back...

that's fine id rather pay 200w of hydro instead of 3500w for the same setup so for me it's a huge investment

yes that is the going concern.  there are a few chinese fabricators that have completed and mass produced fpgas over the last 3 months, hence the spike in diff.  gridseed has already developed and produced asic chips and released a beta sample.  they are mass producing chips and rigs are being manufactured for them this month.

so if you can't get your alpha-t until july diff will probably be at 10k by then.