After playing around with this calc, it seems that 6 months from now, everyone under 1 ghash will have to call it quits.

I'm guessing you've already paid off the cost of your hardware. If you've done that, or you're not buying hardware specifically for mining, it should work out to be profitable for users with decent ATI cards.

Please expand to your fellow neighbor country: The Netherlands!

Testimonial..

"Given that the income is tax-free, the return on £14,000 investment is equivalent to 12.9% for a 50% tax-payer and 10.3% for a 40% tax-payer, with the investment recouped in as little as seven years. As the payments are linked to RPI, this equates to a real return of 18.2% and 15.6% respectively at today’s RPI rate of 5.3%"


You have to pay, but the government pays you back over the years..which makes them FREE

반갑습니다~~

rig은 윗분 서명 같은 애플컴퓨터가 아니라도 가능합니다.

일반적인 PC이면 mining이 가능하고요. 가능하면 AMD의 고성능 그래픽 카드일수록 잘 됩니다.

문제는 전기를 너무 많이 먹어서 가정집에서 돌리기에는 무리가 따릅니다.

I was suggesting exactly what I said, that newcomers should check out this more realistic calculator before they get into bitcoin mining for profit.
You're trolling my post so it seems you need to get a life at a much more significant rate than I do 

Amazing how many people are on here just to troll..

Did I ever suggest that newcomers shouldn't mine?
Oh, that's right, I didn't.

Newcomers need to see this calculator before they get into bitcoin mining for profit!
Thanks for a closer, more realistic outcome to mining!

There are 0 for sale on planet earth anyway lol.

Are you sure about that?
Maybe before Mai 2011 but now its more than questionable. Lets look at June to July difficulty and BTC price.
We started out somewhere around 0.6 mill and now we are at 1,69 mil - this is more than 280% rise in difficulty.
BTC was trading around 10 in the beginning of June and now we are at 13-14 USD. I see 30% rise (not bad at all). Forget the jump to 30, this had nothing to do with difficulty.
If you look at the July data, picture is quite the opposite to your prediction. Difficulty jumped from 1.2 mil to 1,69 an this is almost 40% jump. At the same time, BTC has fallen from 17 to 13.5.  Do be honest, this a bit strange.

BTC needs more businesses to accept the coin and not more miners to flood the market. In long term, I am bullish and I believe that more businesses will starting to accept the coin. This need some serious PR work and selling.
 
Well yes, except that there has been a few factors which have stagnated the price such as the MTGOX issue and the fact that trading fees have been waived over that period etc,. etc,... I really don't think you can take the latest month or two as valid examples. These have been strange months. I believe the price will re-adjust soon. I also think that due to namecoins being more profitable in the short term, this will reduce the difficulty of Bitcoins temporarily also (even if it's only the once). Over time we will see what happens but to simply put in a calculator where the price remains fixed for all eternity is not an accurate reflection in my opinion. I am holding quite a lot of Bitcoins (not selling) as I feel that they will rise in price soon. So although my profit may be (x) if I sell now, it will not be (x) later down the line, so you can argue that mining may be more profitable than the current price indicates if the value rises at some point. If the price rises, I get benefit for all previously mined coins as I'm holding on. The reverse is also true.



 
   
 
 

New miners and veterans alike, I present to you the most realistic bitcoin profitability calculator I have seen on the web.
This calculator take into account difficulty increases and should show you a more accurate overview of bitcoin mining and potential profits.

http://striketeam.ath.cx/btccalc/btccalc.php
If you find it useful, donate to the creators address on the website!

http://i.imgur.com/0gfyC.jpg

Btw..."just take a basic mining rig with a couple of 5870's"  Yeeeeeeah, that's a real basic rig *eye roll.*

Seems good, but it's out of reach for most people I think, not everyone knows that much about electricity, and where you get 50w panels so cheap?

I'm kinda into eletricity and inverters and batteries and all that for no real reason.

Phew,... managed to stop you just in time. 

daahhh. thank you for explaining this to me.. I was just about to wire them 100k£ ...

I am quite sure that there are companies based in Malaysia somewhere and offering their wares on alibaba. These companies claim to have thousands of 5970 cards in stock and ready to sell them for as little as 100$ a pop. Though, it's wire transfer or western union only.

I am sure that if you negotiate hard enough they can get more cards and they will sell it to you even at lower price. Surely at those kind of prices prices 1Thps rig may sound plausible. I hope you hear from them after money are sent.