Hm, guess I might invest. I just locked in my funds in CoinLenders though, meaning I can't access them and not buy a contract in time for the September contract >.<. Might have to do a loan, as this is quite appealing.
3 years ROI is quite appealing? Or you think more hash power will come online shortly?
joae1975, philipma1957 - am I correct in understanding that you still don't yet have the hashing power that you expected?
Correct but remember diff goes up, every 10-12 days.
So ,the rise in diff ,the rise in hash, and coin price will determine if I make a profit.
I have collected .278 btc against a 7.2 btc investment (coins were 100 usd at that time) coins are now 110 usd.
Do I think this is the best choice you can make no, but I do think if you are a spread the risk guy like I am you could buy a contract here and buy some coins to hold.
Maybe buy some asic miner sticks.
say a gold 8gh contract for about 5btc from cloud hashing
hold 5btc coin buy the coin from some one like coinbase.com
buy 5 btc in asic miner sticks. from a good ebay seller or from a good seller like canaryinthemine (search him on this forum)
so this is a 15btc investment plan.
you could buy stock in a startup or 2 maybe addiction and labcoin buy 2.5btc worth of each and you put up 20 btc or about 2200usd .
I have no idea of what you have to invest but always remember BTC is high risk so do not risk more then you can afford to lose!!