wow, long thread, wont lie skipped to the end- so where is the best price on a 1th/s miner kinda interested
These guys have them for sale right now, and the price definitely right!
Plus they have excellent customer support from my experience buying gear from them:
http://www.gawminers.com/gaw-miners-1t-bitcoin-asic-miner/
7.4 BTC for a device that might mine less than 5.3 in the next 100 days if every diff change for the next 100 days is only 15% ...
No wonder hardware vendors can do so well, people like losing BTC ... ... ... ...
It will return $2000 after 6 months with 17.50% diff average increase, including electricity.
That's 4.49 BTC at current price so 2.91 BTC loss.
So the cost of "having fun mining Bitcoin" will be $1296.
So much fun, yeah !