One advice to those who got plans to step into mining "business" :
There is nothing more important in your preparations than to PROPERLY evaluate and predict the growth of the mining difficulty.
If you fail to do this right - your planed (expected) profits will turn into nothing but disappointment and losses.
You can trust me, as the past owner of the first and second generation of ASIC's. (not to mention cpu, VGA and FPGA mining)
Thanks for your valuable feedback and opinion @onealfa
From your experience, generally, what is the ROI you've received and how long have they been profitable for on those previous gens of ASICs you've used? (Variables such as BTC price / elec cost obvi. have a great effect)
I do not remember all so well...been 3 or 4 years since then. But ROI was not that fantastic, in general they mined to me about ~1,5-1,7 times more BTC than I have paid for them (measured all in BTC, until it became full non-profitable, below the electricity cost). Shipping was dealyed much, and 1 month late in starting was making a huge huge reduction to ROI ( due to a very fast difficulty increase) Hence - my warnings.
Hello @noates
Experience and feedback shared by @onealfa are quite appropriate and appreciated!
WE HOPE THAT IT COMES OUT SOON TO THE MARKET THAT HAS THE REACH THAT MENTION, I HAVE BEEN INQUIRING ON THIS MACHINE AND IT SEEMS TO PROMISE GOOD EXPECTATIONS. @onealfa