These posts seem to crop up a lot for some reason, the answer is simple. If you already have equipment the answer is probably "yes," but you can easily check with a profit calculator (e.g. https://www.cryptocompare.com/mining/calculator/eth)
The question of whether it will be profitable to buy equipment is more complicated, but not by much. Find hashrates for GPUs (or ASICs/whatever) from a site like: https://whattomine.com/ Use a profit calculator to see how long it will take to ROI, and decide whether you think the market will crash in that time.
For example, if you assume Ethereum will retain value for a year (and not switch to POS), it is currently profitable to set up new rigs.
Not exactly. Your will earn the cost of your ETH equipment in 2 years. If ETH price will the be same during next two years. But difficulty will be not for sure. So you will never recoup your costs buying new equipment now except case ETH price will quick rise. The main problem - video cards now cost twice they should cost. Or may be tripple. Slow guys experienced problems with calculator dont realised yet.
My calculation is 12 months to recoup assuming no difficulty change and stable ETH price, with a 5x 1070 rig. I get free electricity, so maybe 14 months with that included. I agree that GPU prices are frustrating, though.
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BoardSpeculation (Altcoins)
Re: EtherDelta is dead, long live the ForkDelta
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sampullman
on 07/03/2018, 21:11:32 UTC
ForkDelta uses EtherDelta's contract, they just "forked" the UI and backend, and have been updating it. As always, you can interact directly with the contract if you are having difficulties with EtherDelta's UI.
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BoardMining (Altcoins)
Re: Mining , still worth it?
by
sampullman
on 07/03/2018, 21:00:08 UTC
These posts seem to crop up a lot for some reason, the answer is simple. If you already have equipment the answer is probably "yes," but you can easily check with a profit calculator (e.g. https://www.cryptocompare.com/mining/calculator/eth)
The question of whether it will be profitable to buy equipment is more complicated, but not by much. Find hashrates for GPUs (or ASICs/whatever) from a site like: https://whattomine.com/ Use a profit calculator to see how long it will take to ROI, and decide whether you think the market will crash in that time.
For example, if you assume Ethereum will retain value for a year (and not switch to POS), it is currently profitable to set up new rigs.
Under Ubuntu, I can still use my GTX 1060 3Gb without any problem. Cards are using 2.7Gb out of 3Gb available. I suppose Linux takes 300Mb, is there a way to reduce this ?
You could disable the display manager and run your mining script over ssh, that should save a bit of memory.