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If you can't beat them, join them. The current rates are like $4-5 per day for a gtx 1080/1080ti on nicehash. Super simple installation and you can set it to ru
by zawerf 9y ago
If you can't beat them, join them. The current rates are like $4-5 per day for a gtx 1080/1080ti on nicehash. Super simple installation and you can set it to run whenever idle.
https://www.nicehash.com/profitability-calculator https://www.nicehash.com/profitability-calculator
Just think of it like a really slow but never ending rebate. And if enough people do it, we'll even have a chance of lowering the overall profitability.
- voltagex_ 9y agoI pay ~34C/kWh, last time I tried mining for NiceHash they got robbed.
- sharemywin 9y agoyou might want to at least login back in today they announce when you get refunded. I was out $800...I mean $700...I mean $500...$300 myself.
- Retric 9y agoYou lose ~1/2 of that paying for electricity.
- mavhc 9y agoand 10x that because you caused global warming
- dvfjsdhgfv 9y agoI believe this exactly is the thin line that delineates people who make the world a better place and those who don't really care and their aim is to just live a nice life. If anybody is wondering where all this global warming and pollution came from, it's just from that: you calculate the net result, you know what using that electricity means, but you choose to ignore that. Maybe you even rationalize that you contribution is too small to mean anything. When millions have that attitude, the whole Earth suffers.
- candiodari 9y agoIt's not so simple: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons For your argument to make sense, a single farmer's decision would need to have the ability to change the outcome, and it doesn't. Otherwise not doing this makes about as much sense as cleaning a cup of coffee to save and orphan from a shark.
- Retric 9y agoPeople don't suddenly use enough more coal because you use less to make your choice meaningless. Further scale provides efficiency. If only 1/10 as many people use gas powered cars then gas stations become harder to find pushing more people to electric cars. Similarly as more people go off grid staying on grid becomes more expensive pushing ever more solar adoption.
- candiodari 9y agoYes they do. The Price mechanism makes sure the entire supply is used.
- wakkaflokka 9y agoI have a 1080 GTX. With my electricity costs, NiceHash says I'd generate $100/month in profit. Not too shabby.
- neverminder 9y agoI live in an apartment where electricity is free (bill is included), so I'm curious if mining with a single GPU is worth it. I have Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 6GB and nicehash is saying I can make £52 a month with it. If that means running the GPU at full power 247 it would probably give up the ghost sooner than it pays for itself, not to mention it would be loud as fuck with fans at 100%.
- aoeusnth1 9y agoInstall an overclocking app like MSI Afterburner. Set a power limit of around 80%. The 1060 6GB won't be worth $500 forever - in about a year, I'm guessing Nvidia and AMD will have stepped up their production and the price will have halved or less.
- lykr0n 9y agoWith ample air flow, you should be fine. Running a card at constant temperature (which is what mining would do), is better than ramping it up and down. You'd probably make closer to £70 with your CPU thrown in, but it's all a gamble.