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Board Mining speculation
Re: Does worth mining with used S9s?
by
kalstr
on 06/05/2019, 15:22:22 UTC
If you have free electric ANY miner is good. The question becomes how much free electricity do you have: just a few kw or more? Please do remember that miners are hot and loud. Can you deal with removing the heat from where the miners are? Please ref the 1st time/small miners guide.

I have free electricity up to 960kWh that is for 24h - 40kW running 24/7. Place when I will run miners will be in a warehouse so hot/loud it's not an issue.

As long as you have free electricity, getting a miner that is the best $/Th is what you are looking for. The things you look at when buying a miner is the cost of the miner and the price you need to pay to run the miner. If you remove the price you pay to use the miner (electricity) then you are looking at the price to acquire the miner.

960kwh would be about half of a S9, in reality 960kwh would be half of almost any machine out there right now. So that should be taken into account when figuring out what you want to get, especially if you only get 960kwh for free, this calculation of half a miner doesn't taken into any account of what your home uses.

Yes, I don't include electricity but problem is price of a miner & shipping is too high so I can't pay for a USED miner that have ROI 4-5 months. What if it's broken/lower hashes etc.

About free electricity:

1 S9 - 1.35kW
30 S9 - 40.5kW
960 kWh = 40kW