Excellent article Ashwim, I thoroughly enjoyed it. One area you don't address though is the ratio into profitability of the power consumed, performing the mining, a strong reason for the drop off in mining whilst bitcoin was in its low figures. now with the current value, this negates the power bill concerns, and possibly highly influential for the rise in mining again, given the last 12 months. If it were to have another deep drop though, AMD may find themselves with a lot of stock on the shelves :)