You will never make your money back running one of these. As it sits the ROI is nearly 2 years at current prices, meaning you will be priced out by the difficulty adjustments and never break even. Then you add in the costs of a powered hub and you are just throwing money away. I just dont get it....
I hate to repeat this every couple pages, but the #1 point of these is not all about ROI. They are low cost miners anyone can afford to buy and a great way to learn about crypto and how mining works. I specifically build these in order to get new people into the ecosystem, that would have never bothered because A) they cannot afford 2-5k USD mining ASICs, or B) can't even run one because of crazy power and noise requirements. Alot of people also gift these as a way to get people that have never even heard of crypto into crypto.
I say this all the time, but new people and veteran members alike get stuck into the ROI and higher price mania and forget that the only way your going to even ROI on a 2k machine, or expect your 54 dollar litecoins to turn into 200 dollar litecoins is by getting even more people interested, buying, and using crypto. A new user is not going to buy 100 Litecoins, or buy a L3+.
Whats better? The same old 10,000 people using litecoin and about 1,000 huge mining farms mining it all in an endless cycle, or 100k new people all mining with these USB miners and all getting interested and buy/using Litecoin?
Hope you get it now
