Given that there has been a 8x growth in price, miners must still be profitable at this point? If I were an ASIC supplier, I would be delaying shipping and "alpha testing" those hardware in times like this

At 500ghash/sec you can only make half a coin per day now.

I would imagine they burn in test for 24 hours but with so many units to build they would have to rotate them out.

Soon a $5000 machine like that will only make a quarter coin per day.

> * If I were an ASIC supplier, I would be delaying shipping and "alpha testing" those hardware in times like this*

I'm glad that you're not an ASIC supplier, because that's fraudulent and dishonest.

Implying the ASIC suppliers aren't?

Deja vu all over again.