Quote from: Harai Goshi on April 20, 2019, 03:39:48 PM

Quote from: joseph32 on April 20, 2019, 03:07:57 PM

It will be worthless much faster. Expect a massive pricedrop after a few months. A year later they are even worthless on Ebay, so they will have no resale value. This means Bitcoin have to jump massively in price to earn some money here, which wont really happen that fast.

Buying Asics is a high risk and gambling. Also they are noisy as hell, hold that in mind!

Other problem with ASICs...they just arent any fun at all. You plug them in, point them at a pool and then....well, that's basically all you do with them other than cleaning them every so often or maybe replacing a fan. No spontaneous software conflicts to deal with, no optimization tweaking, no algo switching, etc. Different people mine for different reasons. Immediate/medium/long term profits, supporting the ecosystem, whatever. For me it's basically just a great big video game I had to build a massive computer network to play.

I have 20 GPU rigs across three different locations (electricity deals). One of those rigs rotates to my home office every week so I can do maintenance, tinker with settings, decide what algo it's going to be on, etc. I know what cards are in each of them, etc. Hell, I even gave them all names instead of numbers (Autobots = Nvidia, Decepticons = AMD =D) because for some goofy reason it's easier for me to keep track of them in my head. Rig one means nothing...but Optimus Prime is memorable!

I have two z9 minis. They just run, I never even look at them. To be completely honest, off the top of my head I couldn't even tell you where they are.

This is true! Zero fun with Asics, Zero learning with Asics... With GPU's you have something to do every single day.