Lodewijk andré de la porte <[email protected]> sent an interesting reply.
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 02:57:52 +0200
Subject: Re: Bitcoin mining efficiency and Botnets
From: Lodewijk andré de la porte <[email protected]>
"High end" (optimal for mining != high end per
se) GPU's have been dumped since forever in
favor of FPGAs. Some people picked them for
availability or resell value even in the FPGA era.
FPGA is now totally dead because ASICs rule the
game totally. They're totally Bitcoin exclusive
so resale value if Bitcoin goes bam is 0.
They're flooding the market at increasingly
competitive prices and there's likely no money
to be made off them soon, except where electricity is cheap.
If your profit depends on bitcoin achieving a
certain success it is usually better to buy BTC
directly, and save yourself risk and hassle with physical objects.
Note: Litecoin's mayor advantage is that it's
something that works relatively better on GPU.
There GPU is still fighting FPGA and ASIC would
be less feasible (maybe even infeasible?) bc of memory demands.
