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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Why are profits so low?
by
brooklynite1
on 18/02/2019, 02:39:17 UTC
So depressing, I used to make around $300 a day but now I'm down to like $70 a day.  Probably won't even be able to live off this anymore and I have bills to pay.


Everyone talks about electricity cost. Here in Southern California it costs amywhere from 16c in winter at night to 35c in daytime in summer. I hacve no idea how people are paying 10 cents.

But my point is even in SoCal with high electricyt cost, the equipment depreciation is much higher than the electricity:


Example:

I am mining a coin that is 5 Satoshi per coin. I get 11,000 coins per day (used to be only 2500) basically making about $2 for a 6 x 1070 rig that I bought for $4000 last year so:

Coin value is 5 Satoshi
Electricity cost is 5 Satoshi per coin mined.
Equipment depreciation cost is 12 Satoshi per coin mined.

My GPUs lose value faster than the electricity they use.