[DanBlake]

High risk, high reward. If you buy the average piece of real estate and rent it out, you are looking at 30+ years to cover the cost.

You can also lose it all (housing bubble) or quadruple your investment (investing in SF 10 years ago)

[creyes]

also weird analogy cause the houses value will (theoretically) appreciate... a GPU prolly not so much.

[ucho]

Buying ASICs is high risk and (probably) high reward - in event of crash you are left with worthless machines. GPUs will still have some value, even after all crypto currencies drop.

[numbsafari]

Which is why you use leverage...

[raverbashing]

Barring natural disasters and other extreme events, your real estate risks losing (let's say) 50% of value if you made a good purchase

The intrinsic value of 1 BTC is ZERO

[Zpalmtree]

But you bought the GPU not the BTC?

Even if BTC becomes worthless, you still have the GPU to sell

[raverbashing]

True, that applies for investing in mining

(there's also the electricity you used, but if you live in a cold place you saved on heating so that could be something not lost as well)