Quote from: philipma1957 on September 11, 2013, 03:31:28 PM

Quote from: atomriot on September 11, 2013, 04:51:13 AM

Quote from: xzempt on September 11, 2013, 04:20:30 AM

these usbs will need to be around .13 each soon to be worth messing with Sad

they are already novelty. the difficulty is too high to get anything useful out of them other than a few bit-cents a piece

a year worth of mining with starting at 10 and adding a new one as soon as you get enough coin only gives you an addition 7 units and .08 btc in your hands calculated reference

then you are left with 17 usb sticks that cant really do anything.
this calculation of course is an estimation and assumes 30% increases each time and does not factor in hub costs.

its getting harder to mine while not losing USD. better save your power and just invest in coins not miners.

your calc reference is not good. 1 year of 30 % each adjustment will never happen. just not possible. basically that is about 1.3 to the 32nd power silly to think that is what will happen.

86.9
112.9 11 days
146.8 22 days
190.9 33 days
248.1 44 days
322.6 55 days
419.4 66 days
545.2 77 days
708.8 88 days
921.5 99 days these will not continue as that speed

30% for a year may not happen but as the huge miners start dropping ,there will be higher jumps in difficulty and then it should mellow out. so over that time, it could average around 30% per jump. and from here on out, there will only be bigger miners being sold so the rise of hashing power doesnt look to be slowing anytime soon.

its just not possible to get any kind of accurate guess for that length of time.