Funny thing is im working with a few pools to see who Im going to go with to solve the payout issue for small miners, and you were on my list to contact. Guess the 100PH worth of shitty miners I could bring to your pool and 10x your hashrate is not worth it then huh?
Kano has the small miner payout solution, just don't pay out dust and keep telling people it will be done "soon"
Yea most pools offer at least a .0005 min BTC payout, but that would still take nearly a year with one hashboard. Solution to get that down to .0001 or lower is pretty simple and already in some talks to make it happen. But yes the minimum time horizon anyone should expect a payout is at least month, which obviously halves with each hashboard you add.
According to my math 2.7 TH with todays difficulty you are looking at about ~85 days to get to .001 which is the minimum payout of some pools
BTC.
There might be some that do .0005 but I have not looked in a while.
https://www.cryptocompare.com/mining/calculator/btc?HashingPower=2.7&HashingUnit=TH%2Fs&PowerConsumption=250&CostPerkWh=0.12&MiningPoolFee=1As for the cost, yet again just ignore Kano. Yeah, it's an inefficient miner. But you know what, it does not LOOK like a miner. That matters.
I took an old BFL Monarch, (the liquid cooled ones) put it in a PC mid-tower case with a 750W PS, added a RPi and have a 675 GH/s DEAD SILENT space heater.
Is it as efficient as a 1 board S9 or S17 or an R4 or..... no it is not
But it also just looks like a PC in the corner of the room.
Oh, and since the RPi has wifi there is no network cable just a power cable.
If you built something like that, no matter HOW inefficient it is, it would sell.
Think about it, a black silent box about the size of mid sized PC doing about 10TH @ 750w just heating the room. In almost silence.
If you can figure out a way to use off the shelf water blocks instead of an air-cooled heatsink all the better.
-Dave