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Re: GPUs vs Block Erupter USBs?
by
laserray
on 06/06/2013, 05:08:43 UTC

i think imma just buy 1 of the usb things and a rasberry pi, leave it and forget it. lol check back once a month and order pizza with the winnings Tongue

Thats a good way to look at it ...but even then you might not have enough for a pizza lol

Here's some more food for thought...

Assuming the difficulty doesn't increase too much (it's already climbing pretty fast) and that you're part of a fairly lucky pool (a lot of ifs), at ~300 MH you should see something like 0.01 BTC a day.

That fastest way to get pizza is to use a service that takes BTC (and charges a fee) to buy pizza because you'll have to wait a long time to hit minimum amounts to do money conversion at most exchanges.  Now let's say the pizza costs $10 and the fee is $2 @ a rate of $100 per BTC (for simplicity), you'll need 0.12 BTC.  That's 12 days at the previous rate to be able to get pizza, so 2 pizzas a month which is not bad.

However, considering that you spent 2 BTC on the hardware you could just buy yourself 16 pizzas to begin with.  That's 2 pizzas for the next 8 months.