Crypto currency mining

[ulfilias]

Hi There,

Been curious about Bitcoin/Cryptocurency a few times and have always thought I should have got into this ages ago and then do nothing about it!
Have a feeling that things are on the rise and will continue to rise. Who know's if Bitcoin will be THE currency though. Just looking at net trends, I recall when Altavista or AskJeves were the got to search engines but you'd be daft to use anything but google now, same with social media with Livejournal and Myspace with facebook dominating these days. However lots of people have gotten pretty wealthy from all of those over time and i'm guessing at some point some form of consolidation will take place and holding a few cryptocurencies could really pay off.
I'm an ex-IT sys-admin who used to build and maintain various systems. I've been running a manufacturing business for probably 15yrs, but still a tech geek at heart and am a pretty fast learner when interested. Could become a hobby, could add to the business!

Have read the whole of this thread yesterday and done some looking arround and the UK is a little lacking in sources of equpiment. Can't say i like bitmain pushing bitcoin purchases as buying bitcoin doesn't seem particularly easy atm and the price of them is sky high too (though plenty of growth potential still). Looking at Ebay there's a few things, though reading arround some of the lower purchases (few hundered) which can get you something that'll do a few TH/s (eg sp20 - 1.7Th/s) but some US forums are saying that they wouldn't even turn them on these days!!!

I've got a bit of cash to play with (having already hedged bets with Nutmeg, Property partner, ratesetter, etc) but not quite enough to justify changing my 2005 4.2 sport D3 A8 for an S8 (a little quicker and B&O, but cars loose cash and mine is still nice)....Bank rates are pathetic and i've just locked my mortgage for 5yrs, so definately on the look out for something....But quite what and how???