What I find hard to understand is e420Kush. Associating drugs and bitcoins in RL?! On the general subject of application specific processing, it's an arms race I've stayed clear of. If you've been at it from the start, fair enough. But otherwise expect to be putting down hundreds of thousands of dollars to keep ahead shortly. Things are only going to get more insane.While it was with CPUs and GPUs, there was always the fallback case of selling your equipment to cover your losses if things got bad, but that's no longer an option so I'm stepping out. Bitcoin mining will probably be exclusively done by botnets and supercomputers in the end.I think there are better ways to make money out of the bitcoin economy than mining, like offering actual services and products based upon new business models that can't easily exist in a regulated world. People should be focusing on hastening the transition of the black market economy off the dollar and onto the BTC, that's where the real money is at.