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I realized that worthwhile is a vague term when I wrote it. I would say that making $2.35 over 4 days is not worthwhile, but maybe $20/day (beer money) would be
by waiquoo 13y ago
I realized that worthwhile is a vague term when I wrote it. I would say that making $2.35 over 4 days is not worthwhile, but maybe $20/day (beer money) would be reasonable (considering I would not be paying for electricity). More to the point would be a rate (dollars/cpu/day) where you could calculate what the total take would be from running under different conditions. However, I realize that with the dynamic nature of bitcoins and the variety of hardware available that rate could vary quite a bit.
disclaimer This information is for educational purposes only, I want to keep my job.
- maxerickson 13y agoI am also curious about these things. It looks like you can take in ~$0.30 a day mining litecoin on a 'decent modern cpu' (meaning a high end i5). Some Xeon monstrosity gets you up towards $1. The best GPUs are more like $10 a day. There might be somewhat better scrypt coins, but I guess more and more people are watching this (so they will have roughly even mining activity). Bitcoin will be far less (because a few thousand dollars of ASICs is good for thousands of GPUs or tens/hundreds of thousands of CPUs).