It's funny but I wrote this today. I hope this is relevant

https://bitrpc.com/5-things-i-wish-i-knew-before-getting-into-mining-part-time/

Also, I partially agree with the sentiment earlier. You have to do a bit of research regarding this one and you'll want to see people who have done it already. Right now mining is tough, I would only start if I had partially existing equipment, but it all depends on how much you are willing to invest in. What is it for your case?

I think its not mining operations the concern should be. It's competitors of Bitmain at least that's how I see it.

Mining operations would just get profit and buy more machines. If Bitmain is the only competitor and Bitmain actively reinvests in coins, then its positive. If there are many other competitors, it's not clear how they will use their funds. If they increase scale, a lot of earned money goes back into infrastructure and fixed costs which takes away from Bitcoin. Bitmain already has much of this in place already, so I would assume they could save the cash to buy more coins or find new crypto related outlets to invest in.

I'm all for the private miners though.

As a miner I think Bitmain is something to be feared. No one really like miner centralization. However, after much thought and analysis, I believe Bitmain is a necessary evil.

Bitmain is required to help boost prices of Bitcoin up. They sell hardware and prevent other competitors from entering because they will actively re invest back into cryptocurrencies. I can't say the same for other mining companies and it seems better than giving money to Nvidia and AMD in the long term.

I've written a full article on my thoughts here: https://bitrpc.com/2018/07/06/how-bitmain-plans-to-rule-mining-and-influence-coin-prices

Please share your thoughts if you have varying opinions or insights regarding Bitmain.

Yeah this is very true. There are a lot of interesting statistics regarding revenue too such as the top games receive the majority of the lion share of revenue and anything below the 50th percentile of games earn close to nothing. We have some experience in the sector, but what I can say that we have going for us is that we're going to be early in having in game items as Erc-721 tokens and the way in which we focus on the in-game economy will be something to see .

Greeting in Bitcointalk land. The team has been working the past few days to get all concepts and designs for the upcoming games. In fact, we've already been working behind the scenes to start our first game. Due to this, we're postponing the first crowdsale to later this week. To compensate for your trust in us, we've updated the website which you can check out now.

We're also holding a crowdsale for gamers who are interested. It is very exciting for us to announce that our mobile game systems will now be using ERC-721 tokens for incredibly unique one of a kind items. This is of course in addition to our ERC-20 tokens which all serve to work in the game. Now everyone can join in the fun and attempt to discover new items that could potentially be worth $$$!.

We're focusing mostly on puzzle and action games for the time being because they are most popular and we believe we can make some awesome games in this sector. We're all avid gamers and play too many games for our own goods so we're coming with that background. We're going to release some new exciting updates regarding the project soon. We're also going to refresh the web page and show some new gaming elements, so please stay peeled!

These coupons expire today and we only have 2 left. PM Me if you want it!

Hey I sent it off. You have to use the quickly since they expire soon but its there. Take care!

New users: there are 2 left so get them before its gone !

Alright one second. There are 3 left btw.

I have 4 coupons left.  To all those that got them, enjoy .

Yeah, enjoy the miners . Thank you too!

I have some free coupons I'd like to giveaway. However you must register here https://moatoken.io and send me the email for your Bitmain account. Enjoy .

It might be because you're a new user. I have sent a $200 coupon code. Thanks for registering and enjoy!

Sent me an email here: voidstone8@gmail.com with the receiver ID. I had this issue with someone earlier.

Thanks!

Team,

Vod has informed us that we may have sent emails to BitcoinTalk members as spam despite not knowing they were part of the list. Again, we were unaware that our emails had members from the forum. We are in talk to resolve the issue so that we do not affect those on the BitcoinTalk forum so that faith may be restored to you all  .

Thank you!

Hey community! I'm holding a giveaway of Bitmain Coupon codes. All codes are free, but there is a small catch. Please register to this awesome crowdsale and pm me the email you used to register.

Here's the place : https://moatoken.io.

I hope it helps any of you wanting to buy a product but not wanting to pay for some codes. 

Hey community! I'm holding a giveaway of Bitmain Coupon codes. All codes are free, but there is a small catch. Please register to this awesome crowdsale and pm me the email you used to register.

Here's the place : https://moatoken.io.

I hope it helps any of you wanting to buy a product but not wanting to pay for some codes. 

Hey guys, for any fellow miners out there, I've got these Bitmain Coupons that I would like to give away for free! All you have to do is register and note your email address here. They are around $100-$200 off per product. PM me your email you used to register and I'll donate the code to you straightaway.

Forgive the slow response. We've been gaining a bit of traction from subscribers and we're about to start releasing some news moving along. In a few moments I'll be able to answer what you guys wrote.

We can't comment on that yet .