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Ask HN: What do to with crypto miner?
Last year at the height of the crypto craze I spent about $6,000 building an ethereum miner. Now that crypto is lower than when I built it, and the summer heat combined with the heat from the miner is making my office nearly uninhabitable, I'm wondering if I should convert the miner to a rig for ML, a gaming rig, or disassemble it and sell the parts. The miner has 6 RX-580s and 2 GTX-1070s, an i5, a decent motherboard, a 1350W power supply, and a 8GB of RAM. I'm curious if anyone in the HN community has suggestions, or stories about similar scenarios. All serious replies will be considered and are appreciated.
Thanks folks!
- savethefuture 8y agoHonestly, I would continue mining with it. ETH and a lot of other coins will recover one day. You may take a hit now, but when it spikes again...
- savethefuture 8y agoAlso out of curiosity if you don't mind, what sort of rates were you getting, how many coins had you mined and what hive were you part of?
- funfunfunction 8y agoI use ethermine and have been getting about 180Mhs. I've only mined eth, as it has been the most profitable and I have less confidence in other coins that don't require specialized hardware.
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