Wish I could buy one of these but as a poor university student I definitely can't. My tuition of $4,800 could definitely buy some mining power.. Lol
If you live in a dorm with "FREE" electricity, you might be able to work a deal with someone. You host their miners and you get a cut of the earnings.
When my son goes back to school in August, I'm sending him my S1's to run for me in his dorm room.
You know those universities and all of society still have to pay for that electricity and that consumption takes away from other areas the university could use the funds? That electricity does not just come free out of thin air. It really has to be paid for. Just because it is hard to account for this consumption doesn't mean it is somehow 'free'.
Is burdening our universities with this extra expense really worth the few pennies in bitcoin you will receive? The one part of society that can least afford loss of resources is our educational system.
What a dick.
I invite the entire bitcoin hashing community to call out this bad and criminal behavior of using other people's 'free' electricity. This is mere theft of a profoundly irresponsible nature. Please stop stealing electricity for hashing.