Quote from: EthanB on March 19, 2018, 08:18:24 PM

Quote from: _michaelJcocks_ on March 18, 2018, 03:20:26 PM

Would you mind sharing how they're making $3-$5 a day? Thanks.

Gladly. Since it seems like no matter how many times the information is crammed down people's throats they don't do what is best, or what even makes sense. Anyone that paid over $750-800 for a 1080TI did not do their due diligence and therefore deserve to be on the lower end of the mining curve. NiceHash has been consistently $2.50+ a day just allowing it to freely switch algorithms as it does. When you choose a specific coin, like Equihash, Neoscrypt or something like that you can keep it above $3.00 no problem.

Quote from: coins4commies on March 19, 2018, 04:40:50 AM

how are you guys mining USD?

I've been very confused about this as well. Grin

Check today on Nicehash, 1080ti's are only making $1.87 or so each BEFORE power consumption, and only around $1.25 or so after subtracting power costs:

https://www.nicehash.com/profitability-calculator#nvidia-gtx-1080-ti;USD;0.1;1;250;0;a5=1275;a7=71.615;a8=1.88;a14=60;a20=35;a21=4.6;a22=0.76;a23=0.47;a24=630;a25=1.76;a26=16.2;a27=2.96;a28=6.978

And to answer the other persons question about how you mine for BTC with GPUs - Easy. Instead of mining at a specific altcoin pool, start mining at nicehash.com. Their mining software will mine the most profitable coin in realtime and will automatically convert the payments to BTC rather than paying out in whatever altcoins your miner is mining. The reason for this is since Nicehash charges BTC for everyone renting the hashpower on their site. You'd be hard pressed to find profits better than nicehash since they resell the hashing power to others at a profit, which equates to higher profits for you.

Even with Nicehash, the 1080ti unfortunately makes less than $2/day at the moment before subtracting electricity costs. I'm sure you can overclock your cards and get a little more out of them but overall you'd be looking at $2 or less per 1080ti. I'm seriously considering taking a chance at solo mining over pool mining as it just doesn't seem worth the time to mine for such little profits in the end, unless you have a large mining farm thats already been running for several months. Mining has really sucked lately, regardless of the equipment. Something's gotta give eventually, either a significant amount of the new miners will need to stop mining or new hardware will need to be released for it to become even remotely as profitable as it was even 2-3 months ago. Sad but true.