I'm here to declare home mining completely dead and a total thing of the past. There is now no way anyone can possibly make ROI purchasing any of the available hardware out there, period!
Not one product on Rigwarz.com can even come close to achieving a ROI, even though they say they can. I challenge anyone reading this to prove me wrong. After you're done embarrassing yourself i'll explain why it's impossible using any of the miners that one runs in their homes. Even if you get free electricity and pay 0 in pool fees, you still can't make your money back, period.
The days of making money by mining coins is long gone unless the price of bitcoin skyrockets. Which honestly, I don't see that happening with all the new regulations that are making it near impossible to use as was intended. It's a miracle the price has held above $350 for as long as it has. Everyday massive amounts of BTC mining hardware becomes obsolete as the difficulty rises.
The only way to make a buck mining is if you got the chips for free, say you trick a bunch of customers into buying them for you. Anyone come to mind?
The hardware manufacturers are gouging people at retail...bottom line. Their markup is insane but they do it because it's a high risk business where their product becomes obsolete within months. There's a reason that the manufacturer who started out selling a piece of hardware at $10,000 can, after two or three months, sell that same piece of hardware for like $3,000. They aren't taking a loss at $3,000, I can tell you that.
However, I remember very clearly a bunch of GPU miners in July-August of last year, talking about how they were getting out of mining because it just wasn't profitable anymore. Then BOOM - prices skyrocketed and they'd have been raking in the money with low difficulty, while others scrambled to get involved. That's the mining game. When we finally see the return of a bull market, things will improve again...but the hardware has to come down in price and the only way that'll happen is if people stop paying the inflated prices. I personally wouldn't pay more than $3.50/MH for an ASIC now (that includes power supply, etc...) and nobody is offering that. Cheapest I've seen is about $5. I'm also not going to do any more pre-orders. So I may be done with mining for a while...which just means what I would have spent on hardware is going directly into coin.