I think its funny how people have come to believe that this magic cash cow will continue to give milk.
I've been mining with my own hardware since the beginning of the year.
From what I see is that home mining will soon come to a screeching halt.
Unless you have a way to cut your electric cost dramatically or the price of BTC skyrockets ( which is not going to happen ),
home mining will be over and done by early 2015.
The difficulty is going to skyrocket in the next few months, and like it or not the numbers dont lie.
Go to any BTC mining calculator and put in your TRUE numbers for power costs and speed and you will see what I mean.
Yes some people who have very low power costs and newer hardware that is more efficient will be able to hold on a few more months but anyone buying in now is done before they start.
It's not only the difficulty increase but what a lot of people don't know is that the BLOCK REWARD is soon to be cut if half.
Once that happens it doesn't matter what hardware you have you still dont have a chance.
Ok rant is over, good luck and it was fun while it lasted.
JMHO
Bob
There's still 100 000 blocks to be found before then.