The $1000 also included the local connection fee and of $2 a day and the 10 rigs had CPUs, ram, SSDs, fans, psu not 100% efficient and other house power usage so probably more like $800. But yes our power is a rip. But if you wanted to set up 256 GPUs like you say you would need all these things.
You also have the possibility that someone will beat you to Key.
And your numbers are off as you could check like 80-90% of the keys before you get the right one and in that case its like 5 years lol
6800000000(hash) * 60(secs) * 60(mins) * 24(hours) * 256(gpus) * 2000(days) = 3.0e+20
3.0e+20 with no down time, no blowen up gpus, no issues, no cleaning.
2.9e+20 all possible keys checked
After 5 years odds are half them GPUS be up in smoke too Grin
You do not have to tell me about what goes in to mining. At the height of it, I had more than triple the amount of cards you had. I never had a rig with less than 13 GPUs on it, so mine was probably a lot cheaper to set up as far as mobo, cpu, RAM, etc.
As for you telling me my numbers are way off, I will not play shoulda coulda woulda word salads with you.
I am basing my numbers off of the average. The last 2 keys found were at 52% and 57%, the average says around 50%, but I even went with the higher of the 2 previous keys found.
Why won't I play your word games lol, because the key could be found at .5%, 1%, 10%, etc. which would make it way cheaper.
So let's stick to factual numbers based off of something or we could play forum tag all day.
If I am renting, I do not care if the GPUs go up in smoke. But if they were mine, they wouldn't, or very few might. I have cards that I've owned over 6 years that still work. You actually have to take care of them, clean them, and keep them cool. I only lost one card, an AMD, because I bricked it trying to flash the BIOS. That was it. And that is also why I went all in on Team Green and got away from Red.