My biggest concern now, is how long until the next pre-order!...
O'Rama.... can you ask for us... a teaser maybe?
Still waiting for November hardware, but already asking for the next opportunity to spend money on..
Do you really think it will continue this way ?
(break-even in a month)
In contrast to you I still hope that KnCMiner doesn't announce another sha256-miner batch before Feb. '14
In addition I hope they skip the pre-order game for next gen. There's no more need for it.
Btw, did you consider that there's an upper limit for coins per day, as well as that more people mining means decrease of your personal part of the cake/network ?
BTC and mining is getting more and more public awareness, as you might know.
Not in China, only, but as well there's more and more each month about 'the Bitcoin Goldrush' and 'money printing machines' in the western media...
Today you might own 1/6.000 of the total network, in March it might be 1/100.000 when spending all your money on the latest hardware.
It might be faster over than you have ever could imagined.
The only difference to the GPU introduction once ago is the fact that there's a limit for ASICs right now. You can't buy them off shelf in the city center, yet. This difference disappears more and more with each batch shipped. And as soon the limitation is no longer relevant due to enough hardware produced and available, it will become exactly the same - in long term you convert your electricity in coins, but not making much profit.
And you still want to pay already for March gen (and in BTC ?) today without having a clue how strong the network will be at this point in time, as well as how far the BTC value might increase (maybe you pay in Feb 1BTC for sth. which costs more than 5 right now) ?
Sorry, but this sounds so stupid, no ? Better buy and hold coins...