Quote from: nexus99 on July 05, 2014, 09:28:50 PM

Quote from: toxic1978 on July 05, 2014, 08:57:54 PM

Quote from: dropt on July 04, 2014, 09:58:56 PM

Quote from: toxic1978 on July 04, 2014, 09:29:41 PM

Basically mining is not going to make any one a fortune these days [...]

It was never supposed to. This whole concept of making big bucks is only an artifact of ASICS and is trending towards zero from the massive gains made by those with Avalon G1's and the lucky few who got Avalon B2's in Bitsyncom's "test" shipment. In 2012 I had an 8GH/s GPU farm which pulled ~5.5kW. This farm made me ~5BTC/day at its peak which was equivalent to $30 a day after power was paid for. We're almost back there (thankfully).

Your right, huge profit was never the intention of Bitcoin mining - and rightfully so. But unfortunately many people don't quite get that.
Personally I love the concept of Bitcoin and it suits my anarchistic views on how the World should function, so by mining it I am assisting the Blockchain and gaining a little Bitcoin in the process Cheesy

Ive always seen bitcoin as ushering in a world wide financial authority rather than being a form of financial anarchy.

You misinterpret my meaning of Financial Anarchy. A decentralized Financial system is technically Financial Anarchy, Anarchy is based on the notion of mutual agreement through societies rather than government bodies running societies. What most people believe to be Anarchy is actually Archism.
But this is entirely the wrong thread and forum for a discussion on Anarchy or Archism , so i'll shut up Cheesy