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Board Mining
Re: Hobbyist miners forced out today?
by
foo
on 27/05/2011, 08:22:40 UTC
No.

300MH/s = .67BTC/day
= $5.70/day
= $171/month

And anyone with that kind of MH/s is probably using no more than 250w of electricity, so 180kwh/month, or about $18 more in electricity per month.  Well, if you get decent rates on electricity, anyway.  $72/month at most though.

Mining is far from being unprofitable.  When difficulty hits 4M, then we'll talk about it being unprofitable for a good portion of hobbyist miners.

At the rate things are going that may happen by November.
The difficulty will pass 4M:

Conservative estimate:
in late August. (30% increase for each adjustment and 10 days per round)

"Holy cow, look at that" estimate:
in one month. (75%, 8 days)