Got my "Butterfly Labs Shipping Update" email earlier today. Their servers have been rather unresponsive for the last few hours. Not so bad at the moment. So if these guys can turn out a Application Specific Integrated Circuit for Bitcoin mining maybe they could turn out an Apache/MySQL chip? They'd probably make more on than than Bitcoin! Are they offering stock options?

Yes, yes I do

Oh hay that was post 4 so now just 2 hours left of browsing. 

The ASICs are going to drastically change the mining activity. I'm betting those not able to make bitcoins will move to other coins to mine. That will build the competition for the distributed anonymous currencies. Canada and the US are starting to regulate Bitcoin transactions. That will also make people move.

I'll mine my Bitcoins with my ASICs if I ever actually get them but will use my yet to be setup GPU rig on something else. Or buy someones GPU rig that's moving to ASIC.

It would be worth putting the Nubies forum as the first one listed. Might get people to the info they need faster.

Post 3

Yep trying to get out of Jail. AAAH! rules!

First post noob and to prove how dum I am I put down $ for 2 BFL 5 GH/s Bitcoin Miners a month ago. Now I'm figuring that by the time I get them I'll probably only be able to make one or 2 Bitcoins a month because of all of the other people that'll be running the ASIC miners. Probably should have built a GPU miner instead, make some Bitcoins now then switch to Litecoin or something you can still mine with a GPU. I expect the otehr coins to ramp up as the ASCIs come on line and make the difficulty go up.