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Note that most of the ASIC makers are selling them, not operating data centers; this supports mrb's point.

Actually there are rather vicious allegations that some of the ASIC manufacturers do mine with their own designs for some time before shipping them to customers and moving onto hardware rev+1.

Allegations which are just that. They're unsubstantiated, not even supported by the hashrate visible on the network. People are trying to rationalize out how someone they though was trustworthy would be so overdue in delivering.

People actually went as far as to sneak into Butterfly Labs' facilities and found no evidence of it.

Thanks for the follow-up!

Steady income (as an ASCI manufacturer) vs a gamble (as the consumer).

Do you want to be the punter or the house?

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