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Re:Avalon ASIC Bitcoin Miner – Prices for Batch #2 by stch2 on Saturday February 02, 2013 @10:54AM (#5156230)
Once they become prevalent, they'll make money at the same rate GPUs make now, or CPUs made before, or etc. etc.
Re:Avalon ASIC Bitcoin Miner – Prices for Batch #2 by sp332 on Saturday February 02, 2013 @11:48AM (#5156451)
There are a lot more miners now, so each miner makes less money. Actually the reward was cut in half a couple of months ago, so even in aggregate, they'll make money at half the rate CPU's used to.
Re:Avalon ASIC Bitcoin Miner – Prices for Batch #2 by jncraton on Saturday February 02, 2013 @12:04PM (#5156521)
It all depends how you define money. The reward halving seems to be correlated with a price spike in the Bitcoin exchange rate, so although fewer Bitcoins are being mined per block, their total value is actually about the same today as it was before the reward halving.

I do agree that there are more miners now, which lowers profits for individual miners.