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Board Mining speculation
Re: Is it profitable to mine?
by
ShakyhandsBTCer
on 21/06/2014, 21:21:13 UTC
I jumped into mining with a purchase of a $15 AntMiner USB chip.  I'm not and never had any belief I'd make much of a profit on it, it was mostly for learning.  But I'm wondering if it's even possible to make any profit.  


In the short term no in the long term probably also a no but you never know what price Bitcoin will appreciate to
If you can get free electricity say at school or at a university then yes it is profitable  Cool
But you can use a mining calculator such as this one
https://tradeblock.com/mining/

In other words, no it is not profitable to mine bitcoin.

If you think that the price will increase then you should simply buy bitcoin on an exchange