Quote from: Bicknellski on April 12, 2014, 04:14:58 PM

Quote from: raskul on April 12, 2014, 04:05:53 PM

Quote from: Bicknellski on April 12, 2014, 03:56:51 PM

The product speaks for itself. So does their communication.

You can always elevate the level of conversation. Don't feed the trolls.

quite true. i'm itching to get my hands on something from spondoolies, unfortunately, as always I'm missing the boat at every turn. my old uncle has left some rare stamps in his will so it may be a possibility that I can join the queue at sometime in the near future. I just had this hunch from the very start that these guys will be around for a very long time, with more and more to offer to feed my mining obsession. As a business owner myself (albeit in a dying industry), I take my hat off to anyone who ventures into something for the long term. After 16 years doing what I do, it's coming to an end and I can at least say, i did my best.

That picture of a massive farm should send shivers down everyone's spine. Does it mean the end of diversity and spreading the network to a wider base? It might if people who care about bitcoin and cryptocurrency continue acting on their own. There is value in working within groups and collectives to help secure the network away from those LARGER farms. Spondoolies is making a promise to those who want to disrupt that ecosystem that they will be there with chips and miners. I am hoping that it is true and people do join together and secure the network differently. Spondoolies is just one company here is hoping others take up that same challenge and offer chips and miners to a growing group of collectives that are keen on making it impossible to have monopolies on mining in any form.

Any effort in method which breaks up the hashpower in any way possible is always welcome; where it is obviously now impossible to have the entire world mine solo at home, there is the option of smaller farm-type share-holdings, which would in the very least bring a spread of the earnings, if not the hashpower. It's going to take something special to get it together, and a team of special people to make it the 'new norm' in bitcoin mining. I don't mind that I am getting so close to being unable to make anything in the way of a profit, by mining at home now - as I said, it's a hobby, nothing more. Hence the reason I made a floor on the price I would be willing to sell BTC at, and currently, am ploughing it all back into cloud mining and not cashing out; which is a big risk, but at the very least, I can try to keep head-to head with current difficulty trends and create my little 1BTC each month. I retort to my thought, we have only had one block halving, and there is still a long way to go. At least, it still feels like i'm an early adopter, I still have a glaze in my eyes about it all and I feel young enough (in mining terms) to make the mature decision to carry on, not throw my toys out of the pram and stick in with it. Uncle Ivor always said; 'stick in with anything you do and it will come good in the end'. Upon this, i'm still a firm believer.