About 1 PTS per day.
I do not recommend buying dedicated mining hardware. The block reward, difficulty, and appreciation of PTS will never allow you to recover your capital costs. It will take you 30 days to break even on capital of $400 and end up with 20 PTS (assuming difficulty does not go up). If you purchased 20 PTS today you will likely be further ahead in 3 months than investing in a dedicated mining rig.
Isn't each future DAC going to require the same hashing algorithms and thus have the potential to be mined by the very same machines that mined protoshares? Or am I missing something?
If that IS the case, you are more than able to profit off of it...imo.
Of course, there is also the matter of the CryptoCurrency Economy and its ability to turn work (mining) into a vote in a complex information market. Mining gives you a vote toward helping something of value move forward.
Just looking at the Seti project-- (
http://seti.berkeley.edu/) makes this pretty obvious. Millions of people help or have helped "mine" for this project...and thus voted it into existence. Direct Democracy...
So really we are not so far from past endeavors--though we certainly are pushing that envelope here and in a few other places on the net. This is an extension of these trends to a logical conclusion (given the state of corruption and banking cartels worldwide).
Maybe we should try to redefine the word "profit" or speak about this in terms of Kinds of Profit?