[ck2]

Bitcoin is about to break 1 Billion difficulty.

The leap in difficulty must mean all the 500-600Ghash/sec 28nm ASICs are coming online.

[ostikk]

Given that there has been a 8x growth in price, miners must still be profitable at this point? If I were an ASIC supplier, I would be delaying shipping and "alpha testing" those hardware in times like this

[ck2]

At 500ghash/sec you can only make half a coin per day now.

I would imagine they burn in test for 24 hours but with so many units to build they would have to rotate them out.

Soon a $5000 machine like that will only make a quarter coin per day.

[humbledrone]

> * If I were an ASIC supplier, I would be delaying shipping and "alpha testing" those hardware in times like this*

I'm glad that you're not an ASIC supplier, because that's fraudulent and dishonest.

[sliverstorm]

Implying the ASIC suppliers aren't?

[SectioAurea]

Deja vu all over again.