Timeline for Should we still mine nowadays with CPU/GPU? [duplicate]
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| Jan 26, 2018 at 11:19 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Jun 8, 2017 at 5:38 | history | duplicates list edited | Murch♦ | duplicates list edited from Lottery Mining?, Is Gpu mining still an option?, In the ASIC-age, is it worth starting mining Bitcoin at home? to How much Bitcoin will I mine right now with hardware X?, Lottery Mining?, Is Gpu mining still an option?, In the ASIC-age, is it worth starting mining Bitcoin at home?, How much time in average does it take for an simple PC to create block? | |
| Jun 8, 2017 at 5:37 | history | duplicates list edited | Murch♦ | duplicates list edited from In the ASIC-age, is it worth starting mining Bitcoin at home? to Lottery Mining?, Is Gpu mining still an option?, In the ASIC-age, is it worth starting mining Bitcoin at home? | |
| Jun 8, 2017 at 5:36 | history | closed |
Nate Eldredge Murch♦ |
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| Jun 7, 2017 at 21:18 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | @abelenky: Indeed, you are several thousand times better off playing the lottery. With a lottery ticket you can expect to get maybe 50% of your stake back on average. For CPU mining it's around 0.01%, if I did my calculation right. | |
| Jun 7, 2017 at 19:37 | comment | added | abelenky | The "jackpot" is currently 12.5 BTC. And remember that you pay for electricity (generally around $0.10 per KwH). The cost of electricity to run your CPU/GPU will be much greater than your chance of making money. I've never said this before, but you are literally better off playing the lottery than GPU mining. | |
| Jun 7, 2017 at 19:33 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jun 7, 2017 at 19:19 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | Yes, there is a chance of mining a block with a CPU. It's very small. The calculation is pretty simple and you can see an example here. | |
| Jun 7, 2017 at 19:15 | answer | added | Badr Bellaj | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 7, 2017 at 18:43 | history | asked | PedroD | CC BY-SA 3.0 |