anyone still holding the first customer batch neptune order?
I'm still long on Neptune CA!
My Saturns paid for Neptune CA.
If I never plug it in I'm still ahead
YMMV
well my last Neptune is gone I'm out on this (Neptune CA) version
with price/difficulty...mining hassles in USA now (if you mine you have to keep track of the bitcoin you mine and the price that day..ie all bitcoin will be treated as property. anything you mine is day to day "income" (ie like you'd make as a worker at your job subject to 25% in my case federal and state taxes) ..so a bitcoin mined in dec of 2013 at 900 bucks vs 500 bucks now you use that btc to buy a 900 buck TV you owe 400 bucks as capital gains income..needless to say if this sticks btc will be dead in the states..ie would be like trading property for a coffee etc one day it is 1.00 next day it is a 1.55...madness..my hopeful view is this will be just the 20% capital gains but by the time it gets thru regulatory process i figure won't know for sure till around august ....gonna suck and keep price down imho...everyone is simply gonna say at best they "bought the bitcoin at a street corner for such and such last week) and/or simply go underground with trades.....but man the price imho is gonna be weaker in next 2 months imho
hopefully this will all get figured out tweaked but if i have to pay "as income" what i mine and then 20% capital gains tax when i sell the coin..why mine ..just buy the coin at a set price to keep track of date/price then ....pay the 20% capital gains tax at end of the year...although i can run this and hopefully have miners elec and such as business expense..this prob won't effect big mining farms from what i understand they cash out in $$$ and do their gambling vs risk on btc holdings after the fact ..also easier accounting then .0000393939.for us small fry..oh and this tax info by IRS is for ALL THE BITCOIN EVER MINED IN THE STATES. or I should say if you are a USA citizen ...ie you mined a 2009 coin for .02c and it is now worth 600 bucks you 'owe' the IRS 599.88 cents on that purchase of a 600 buck TV last week with 'that' coin....in 'capital gains income" ..it is retroactive...and of course completely unenforceable...but so logically i expect change but not till the summer....so again why mine..just buy BTC at such and such a date and pay the 20% capital gains on that amount when/if you sell it? So IRS declares bitcoin as 'property' anyway I'm out for a bit gonna sit on the sidelines ..i expect 300 coin here at best with this and china bank ban at least for the next couple months flat imho or btc goes down another 1/3....
we will see
sorry digressed but I'm out no Neptune for me (maybe next fall I'll catch the next knc pre-order bus)
if i am wrong on the above I'll pick up some 1TH miners late spring or summer they should be common as dirt and much cheaper..dork with them...
again wonder what all these big farms that are built/committed are gonna do to coin price and difficulty in the next 2-3 months will likely to be ugly imho
just think about BFL as an example having to go back and find out how much $$$ they made on the date they made it for each coin they made (like buying a stock or property) then pay the taxes on that under 'gross income' then the 20% capital gains tax when they sell the coin...
will be interesting much yelling and waving of arms shall insue
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anyway....gonna just sit on BTC a bit ..it is too weird here as a miner so your welcome to those who i pop'd up a place in line on the CA batch neptune gue
anyway my bet (difficulty vs $$$ vs competing against knc's farm and delivery etc)
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