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Topic
Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Am I too late?
by
Starscream
on 16/03/2014, 02:43:18 UTC
My power as residential is 9.6701 cents per kilowatt hour.  I was lured by the easy money of about 6 months ago and began learning about crypto and figuring out what I could mine with.  At first it was cpu mining. The I found a hd5450 I had laying around could mine. A friend had a bushel of them he gave me and pretty soon I had mined enough to spring for a 7970.  A little while later, a 5850, then another 5850 along with a 7950 joined the fray. I had golden dreams making about $20/day on alt coins with 2gh/s.  Now, at $6-7 bucks a day I'm on the verge of unplugging the rig, selling the cards and picking up an antminer  s1, 180 GH/s at 300 watts. At current rates that's $14/day at 1/3 the power cost.  I don't see a happy end to this alt coin story.
Is this guy for real? You seriously compared BTC farming where you are guaranteed to earn 20%+/- less every 10 days? And if the difficultly increase is gonna average out to 25% (which is more than plausible) you'll never see ROI.
I like it how you causally type that you'll make 14$ a day as if it's a constant.

If you wanna unplug your rig and sell it, than by all means, but from there to buying an antminer as if it's something profitable and so much better... lol.