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Developer looking to work with clients to accept bitcoins

+1.  It's way easier than carrying around one of those fob things!

LOL..  Me too.  I've spend way more than 4 hours reading on here... I just hadn't created the account yet. 

BTC are generated at a (mostly) fixed rate, with the mining difficulty increasing or decreasing depending on the total mining power devoted to mining at the time.

The ASICs aren't going to mean that more coins are going to be generated, it means that the people with ASICs will get a larger percentage of the coins that are generated, because they will be doing a much higher number of the calculations required to mine a coin.

I'm pretty sure many people are looking at it both ways, ironically enough ;-)

I'll take 10.5, as indicated by the long space between 10 and 11 in your last post ;-)

I've been looking at it and it looks like BTC mining averages out to roughly 100MH/sec per $100-$150 spent.  It's not a bad investment until the ASICs hit the market and crush the GPU miners.

Litecoin mining seems to be about the same, 100KH/sec per $100-$150 spent.  It's not a bad investment until the ASICs hit the BTC market and all the GPU miners switch over to Litecoin mining and skyrocket the difficulty.

Both seem to have about a 3 month payoff period and its profit after that. 

So, basically your betting whether the ASICs will hit big time in the next three months or not.

If you think they will, you're better off just buying coins.

If you think they won't, go for mining.

If you're going to actually use the computer for gaming and mine during your non-gaming hours, then the mining is basically free and you should go for it.

Hope this helps!

 - Brian

Well, it would be a very rough guesstimate as to BTC/hr, as it depends on luck, the size of your pool (or if you're solo mining, even more luck).

But it shouldn't be hard to implement, I'd think.

I've been following bitcoin for a couple years now.  Kicking myself I didn't buy a few thousand of them when they were in the cents range!