Quote from: selfabuse on April 02, 2014, 01:48:32 PM

With $700, you could probably put together a rig that would get you close to 1mh/s, but even with free electricity it's going to take you forever to make that money back.

In late February, I put together a 1.5mh/s rig for about $1100. For the first few days, I was making about $10/day, but that very quickly dropped and it's more like $4/day now. I'm still nowhere close to having even half of that $1100 paid off. If you were to use $700 and put together a rig with say, 2x 270xs you would be at about 960mh/s - but, it would take you about 233 days to make that money back - and that's not factoring in any wear and tear on the equipment, and is assuming the prices aren't going to drop any further.

Exactly. At this point, you do it because it fun, interesting, you enjoy new technology and you wish to help promote/improve the crypto-coinage network(s). Not because you want to get rich quick.