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Bitcoin mining unfortunately is typically useless for sucking up spare electricity. The hardware is too expensive, unless it's running 85%+ uptime, you will not

by tfha 9y ago

Bitcoin mining unfortunately is typically useless for sucking up spare electricity. The hardware is too expensive, unless it's running 85%+ uptime, you will not make back your initial hardware purchase. We can thank Moore's law for that. Bitcoin miners go obsolete every time a new generation of silicon hits maturity. 85% uptime requirement will drop substantially after Moore's law tapers off.

nordsieck 9y ago
> We can thank Moore's law for that. Except that Moore's law has tapered off substantially. The latest 10nm process node is 3 years late[0], and the next one will probably be substantially more difficult than that. [0] https://www.anandtech.com/show/12436/intel-10nm-dualcore-cannon-lake https://www.anandtech.com/show/12436/intel-10nm-dualcore-can...