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Originally Posted by bossku69
That's kind of what I was originally thinking was a step above the younger crowd, at least now. Prior you could use a decent computer with a nice graphics card to mine, but in the last few weeks/months it's now turned into a profession pushing the "smaller guys" out.
So for example, the 16 y/o using his home PC is now squashed compared to the giant processors that the mid 20's and 30 year olds can afford to buy. My guess going forward, they will be majority owned by mid 20's to early 30's males in developed countries, only to be traded for iPhone cases an apps back to China...
Now to develop a product to over them to hoard bitcoins for myself!
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it seems to be a transition period re: mining right now right? it's all *supposed* to be seguing over to asics but very few of those have shipped. and there's talk that bfl isn't going to ever ship (to some degree) and keep their asics to themselves. one of the other asic buiders turnedout to be a faker, supposedly, and avalon has only shipped a % of their 1st batch of 3 total batches.
so maybe those builders are all cranking their asics right now???...... i don't know....and there's even more coming when and if they actually ship to the public? i can seem to get a square idea of that. but i guess my point is, whatever shovels those asic miners need will probably be revealed in the coming months.
mining pools also skew things, maybe?