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Ask HN: Butterfly Labs BTC Mining Rigs, Too Late?

4 points by th3doubl3d ↗ HN
If I don't get one until June, will I be able to make my money back? Thoughts?

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redegg
It depends when the people in front of you get theirs.

There's a large queue for Butterfly Lab's products. You most likely will not get one in the first batch.

th3doubl3d
Right. They're saying they'd like to have them all shipped by June. After crunching the numbers I can't see how the difficulty level will go up that hard within 3 months, but who knows? I'm totally into the idea of helping the cause of cyber security, I'm just broke. Right now these machines theoretically have a ~1 week ROI. But if this takes 3 months to get here, and doesn't maintain a less than 3 week ROI...

I just wanted to poll the crowd and see if anyone else has been doing this math and if they have any insight.