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Your calculations are horrifically wrong.
by abritishguy 12y ago
Your calculations are horrifically wrong.
- _delirium 12y agoHave you taken a look at what CPU mining pays recently? It's a rounding error from zero. A modern Xeon does around 5-10 Mhash/core/s, while ASIC mining is measured in Ghash/s. Leave it on for a year and you'll mine an upper bound of 0.00004-0.00008 BTC/core, according to https://alloscomp.com/bitcoin/calculator https://alloscomp.com/bitcoin/calculator (that's even discounting future difficulty increases, so is an optimistic estimate). That's 2-4 cents/core/year. If you have 1000 such cores going full-stop for the year, you'll net... $20-$40.
- abritishguy 12y agoBitcoin isn't the only cryptocurrency.
- meowface 12y agoI think his calculations are off, but his general point is pretty accurate. If you're doing pure CPU mining, even $100k worth of hardware won't generate you that much money per week. As a pure guess I'm going to assume the actual return you'd see is a few hundred dollars per week.
- abritishguy 12y agoDepends on the cryptocurrency, he used bitcoin in his follow up to my comment. CPU mining of bitcoin is horrendous (you can get a cheap USB stick that can mine as much as an expensive i7 processor) but other cryptocurrencies were specifically designed to make the gap between GPU and CPU mining much smaller and make ASICs not economically viable.
- fizzbar 12y agoPlease enlighten us then, what CPU mined crypto currency is best for this?
- abritishguy 12y agoAny that use the CryptoNight algorithm