The value of bitcoin will be around 800-900$ is my guess. It could be much lower or higher, but i'll look at this thread in june and laugh at how off I was.
This does not compute on what your saying. Your saying take a loss and run a miner at a loss.... in hopes of it being a gain one day. It makes more sense to buy coins and leave the miner unplugged. If your running at a loss on say a S1... you might make money if you hold.
So that is before we take your speculation which is so far off in timeframe we cannot really have a good idea. But I can tell you buy coins.... don't take a loss. I have a policy of selling miners before I run at a loss and buy coins. Then eventually buy new miners if not right away buy new miners. I don't understand run at a loss in hopes of gain.
Some mine to a btc addy. They make untraceable coins so mining works for them.
True but you could also go through a few exchanges and coins, and make it pretty untraceable. Or run a current gen miner if it is that important of being untraceable.
Running a S1 for most would be a decent loss vs just buying coins. He mentions in hopes of future profit not untracable. So I think he's better off buying coins with the money he would have loss if running at a loss. And selling miner and again buying coins.