I've been mining for a little over a year with my first S9 arriving in Jan 2017.
During this past year, no matter the price, it never dipped below an equivalent of $15 per machine per day. The last two months, however, the difficulty nearly doubled and daily profits have dipped down to around $8-9.
[Chop]
Has the profit ever been this low? I'd appreciate any insights.
I think you are confusing revenue with profit, but here is historical revenue data. I downloaded from blockchain.info two files: Miners Revenue (total value of coinbase block rewards and transaction fees paid to miners) and Hash Rate (estimated number of tera hashes per second). I divided the first by the second to get revenue per TH/s,
et voila ---
https://i.imgur.com/mjIgED9.jpgTheir 'hash rate' is an estimate based on block solution times. I also downloaded price and difficulty data and calculated expected revenue using the usual math. That gave a very similar result, but it was a lot more work.
I hope this provides some insight.
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