450 BTC? Over $450,000 at peak price. $280,350 at todays prices. Damn, they gave it to you hard! Hope they used Vaseline! Look at those two boxes and think "$280,000 dollars, $280,000 dollars, $280,000 dollars........
Bad thinking: They weren't worth anything back then. It's the 10,000 bitcoin for a pizza argument, that's what they were worth then, this is what they are worth now.
Lightfoot - you've got to have an angle. You've got to find a way to get over on the system. If all you are going to do with BTC is accept them for purchases just like cash, then how do you get ahead of the game like that? How do you end up with more BTC value than cash value? Only if the BTC price spikes after you have the BTCs.
*Exactly*! Simply mining is not going to make profits, what you need to do is have an angle that adds value.
What I did was take my little single, use my skills on SMD rework, and added 3 chips. Bingo, had a 20gh miner in November. That helped. Then I did the same thing for other people, charging them a bit but never more than what it was worth plus something. People were happy. Then others who had chips marked them way up. Bye bye business, now they are sitting on a lot of worthless chips :-)
Note: It never pays to be too greedy.
Other people brought hosted locations with extra power to the table. Some brought that cool water cooling or immersion techniques to cool the 110nm blades. Those ideas added value.
So the question is what value are you bringing to the community? Figure that out and there is your profit.
I really should work on other miners or something. Or fix more pocket watches for Bitcoin.
as usb antminers 
