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Board Mining speculation
Re: Has Bitcoin mining ever been so unprofitable?
by
QuintLeo
on 16/03/2018, 21:43:09 UTC
Indeed.  I've been looking at mineral oil, but it has a lot of up front expenses. If done right, and at scale, it could provide an edge by consuming about half the electricity.  Though I see the next big area of profit being a big jump in hashpower.  If somebody would make a 50 TH/s miner, that'd surely be profitable for a while.  However, I'm not sure I see that playing out due to high up front costs.

How in the world would mineral oil cut your power consumption by half?!?!? 


El Salvador - TROPICAL climate.
Wouldn't drop the actual miner consumption much - but might drop the AIR CONDITIONING requirement a ton - which is what I think they were claiming.