Is anyone here actually mining? I have been researching a bit this morning just to get a better understanding of everything and was just curious if anyone is using anything to mine at home like that Antminer S9. If so, how is it going and how much maintenance do you have to do? Do you just set it and forget it or is there stuff you have to regularly check/do? I was reading that these can generate like .25btc a year (obviously depending on difficulty and variables) but at the rate now, that would seem worth it.
I am, not BTC, but in 'the mining circuit' with GPUs.
It's making me enough to continue doing it. I'm .. not sure that I could recommend someone get into hardware-level mining at this point. Hell, if I could go back and tell myself to just buy BTC instead of mining gear, I would have (and would have a lot more money at this point to boot). Now, having said that, I don't know that even buying BTC is a good idea at this point, since I don't know what the hell it'll do in the future. I don't think anyone would have predicted it get this high, so there's just as valid reason at this point to think it'll crash tomorrow as think it'll double tomorrow.
I like to imagine the heads of 'traditional investors' trying to come up with futures predictions for BTC though, we've seen swings of 25% in *both directions* in a single day. How on earth do you even attempt to predict futures on that?