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Board Hardware
Re: HashFast announces specs for new ASIC: 400GH/s
by
dbbit
on 29/01/2014, 23:08:28 UTC
No, you are wrong. If BTC fell from $100 to $50, buying BTC still would have been the better investment.

You would buy a BJ for 60 coins, and earn back, lets say, 10 coins. You spent ~$5750 and ended up with $500.

If you had bought BTC, you'd have 60 BTC, and at the end it would be worth $3000. Still the better investment.

Not necessarily. ASIC miner hardware would have been cheaper as a result of bitcoin being cheaper, but not that much cheaper. The price still has a floor that is controlled by the hardware manufacturing process. So you'd be able to sell a 400ghs miner for let's say $3500 on ebay (as opposed to getting ~ $7000 today).

So buy a miner for 60 BTC, sell it for $3500 and then buy 70 BTC with it.

Of course that wasn't the case, so this is speculation.