Title: Mining looks very profitable - or? Post by: wingding on May 16, 2016, 08:30:02 PM From occasional reading (not a miner myself) I have been left with an impression that mining is not profitable - but:
By observing the current difficulty, 194E09, I calculate that you would need an average of 833E6TH (terrahashes) to make one bitcoin. With the current BTC price you then get 1.3E-5 USD/TH. I see that mining hardware available can produce 6TH/s with 1600W. Given an electricity cost of 0.1 USD/kWh i find that mining cost (hardware not included) with this equipment is 0.74E-5 USD/TH. This gives a profit ratio of 1.8, which to me looks very god. Or have I somehow got it wrong? Title: Re: Mining looks very profitable - or? Post by: VirosaGITS on May 16, 2016, 08:36:57 PM Yes And you're going insanely nuts on math.
It cost bout 100$ to run a S7 per month. It return 168$. Very soon the reward will halve and the difficulty constantly rise over time, diminishing returns. Title: Re: Mining looks very profitable - or? Post by: wingding on May 16, 2016, 08:49:39 PM Yes And you're going insanely nuts on math. It cost bout 100$ to run a S7 per month. It return 168$. Very soon the reward will halve and the difficulty constantly rise over time, diminishing returns. Why, when you confirm my math? Your numbers means a profit ratio of 1.7, close enough to my 1.8. I'm talking about current state. Title: Re: Mining looks very profitable - or? Post by: philipma1957 on May 16, 2016, 09:26:49 PM Yes And you're going insanely nuts on math. It cost bout 100$ to run a S7 per month. It return 168$. Very soon the reward will halve and the difficulty constantly rise over time, diminishing returns. Why, when you confirm my math? Your numbers means a profit ratio of 1.7, close enough to my 1.8. I'm talking about current state. your math is harder and disregards diff change. So the guess is what will diff do 163/65 = 2.51 x 1 jump in under 100 days or 62.5/34.6 = 1.81 x 1 jump in more then 380 days also block size drops from 25 to 12.5 so yeah if diff moves slow like the blue below mining is good. but if it moves fast like the black below mining sucks Difficulty History Date Difficulty Change Hash Rate May 11 2016 194,254,820,283 8.73% 1,390,530,167 GH/s Apr 28 2016 178,659,257,773 -0.01% 1,278,892,782 GH/s Apr 14 2016 178,678,307,672 7.09% 1,279,029,147 GH/s Apr 01 2016 166,851,513,283 0.82% 1,194,369,655 GH/s Mar 18 2016 165,496,835,118 4.46% 1,184,672,491 GH/s Mar 04 2016 158,427,203,767 -3.10% 1,134,066,098 GH/s below is : Feb 19 2016 163,491,654,909 13.44% 1,170,318,852 GH/s Feb 07 2016 144,116,447,847 20.06% 1,031,625,717 GH/s Jan 26 2016 120,033,340,651 5.89% 859,232,121 GH/s Jan 13 2016 113,354,299,801 9.12% 811,421,684 GH/s Dec 31 2015 103,880,340,815 11.16% 743,604,444 GH/s Dec 18 2015 93,448,670,796 18.14% 668,931,642 GH/s Dec 06 2015 79,102,380,900 8.77% 566,236,898 GH/s Nov 24 2015 72,722,780,643 10.44% 520,569,941 GH/s Nov 11 2015 65,848,255,180 5.77% 471,360,171 GH/s very brutal while this is good: Oct 29 2015 62,253,982,450 2.25% 445,631,364 GH/s Oct 15 2015 60,883,825,480 0.12% 435,823,399 GH/s Oct 01 2015 60,813,224,039 2.49% 435,318,014 GH/s Sep 17 2015 59,335,351,234 4.17% 424,738,988 GH/s Sep 04 2015 56,957,648,455 4.98% 407,718,729 GH/s Aug 22 2015 54,256,630,328 2.95% 388,384,088 GH/s Aug 08 2015 52,699,842,409 0.81% 377,240,166 GH/s Jul 25 2015 52,278,304,846 2.35% 374,222,683 GH/s Jul 11 2015 51,076,366,303 3.39% 365,618,871 GH/s Jun 28 2015 49,402,014,931 -0.58% 353,633,397 GH/s Jun 14 2015 49,692,386,355 4.42% 355,711,957 GH/s May 31 2015 47,589,591,154 -2.50% 340,659,563 GH/s May 17 2015 48,807,487,245 2.44% 349,377,603 GH/s May 03 2015 47,643,398,018 0.07% 341,044,727 GH/s Apr 19 2015 47,610,564,513 -3.71% 340,809,696 GH/s Apr 05 2015 49,446,390,688 5.84% 353,951,052 GH/s Mar 22 2015 46,717,549,645 -1.50% 334,417,246 GH/s Mar 08 2015 47,427,554,951 1.59% 339,499,662 GH/s Feb 22 2015 46,684,376,317 5.01% 334,179,783 GH/s Feb 09 2015 44,455,415,962 7.71% 318,224,263 GH/s Jan 27 2015 41,272,873,895 -6.14% 295,442,739 GH/s Jan 12 2015 43,971,662,056 8.20% 314,761,417 GH/s Dec 30 2014 40,640,955,017 3.00% 290,919,288 GH/s Dec 17 2014 39,457,671,307 -1.37% 282,449,013 GH/s Dec 02 2014 40,007,470,271 -0.73% 286,384,627 GH/s Nov 18 2014 40,300,030,328 1.76% 288,478,854 GH/s Nov 05 2014 39,603,666,252 10.05% 283,494,086 GH/s Oct 23 2014 35,985,640,265 2.81% 257,595,247 GH/s Oct 09 2014 35,002,482,026 0.98% 250,557,526 GH/s Sep 25 2014 34,661,425,924 16.20% 248,116,151 GH/s Sep 13 2014 29,829,733,124 8.75% 213,529,547 GH/s Aug 31 2014 27,428,630,902 15.03% 196,341,788 GH/s Aug 19 2014 23,844,670,039 20.86% 170,686,797 GH/s Aug 08 2014 19,729,645,941 5.30% 141,230,307 GH/s © 2013-2014 BitcoinWisdom.com Title: Re: Mining looks very profitable - or? Post by: Newcoins2020 on May 16, 2016, 10:32:08 PM Yes And you're going insanely nuts on math. It cost bout 100$ to run a S7 per month. It return 168$. Very soon the reward will halve and the difficulty constantly rise over time, diminishing returns. Why, when you confirm my math? Your numbers means a profit ratio of 1.7, close enough to my 1.8. I'm talking about current state. The halving will be in July which means you income will be cut in half. But not just at the halving. Check here: https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty. The difficulty is increasing (over 8% the last time). You will be at loss well before the halving... Title: Re: Mining looks very profitable - or? Post by: notlist3d on May 16, 2016, 11:57:45 PM Yes And you're going insanely nuts on math. It cost bout 100$ to run a S7 per month. It return 168$. Very soon the reward will halve and the difficulty constantly rise over time, diminishing returns. Why, when you confirm my math? Your numbers means a profit ratio of 1.7, close enough to my 1.8. I'm talking about current state. The halving will be in July which means you income will be cut in half. But not just at the halving. Check here: https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty. The difficulty is increasing (over 8% the last time). You will be at loss well before the halving... So much depends on electricity cost at this point. A LOT of miners are trying ETH currently. We will see if it becomes easier and profitable. And BTC still has many options such as value going up, more efficient gear (we know it's coming). Just so many variables right now it's kinda hard to do much but watch and see what happens. Title: Re: Mining looks very profitable - or? Post by: adaseb on May 17, 2016, 01:55:09 AM Look obviously making 80% gains in a year sounds too good to be true so its common sense that something like "difficulty" and "halving" play a very important role.
Its a gamble just like a stock investment. Title: Re: Mining looks very profitable - or? Post by: philipma1957 on May 17, 2016, 01:59:26 AM Yes And you're going insanely nuts on math. It cost bout 100$ to run a S7 per month. It return 168$. Very soon the reward will halve and the difficulty constantly rise over time, diminishing returns. Why, when you confirm my math? Your numbers means a profit ratio of 1.7, close enough to my 1.8. I'm talking about current state. The halving will be in July which means you income will be cut in half. But not just at the halving. Check here: https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty. The difficulty is increasing (over 8% the last time). You will be at loss well before the halving... So much depends on electricity cost at this point. A LOT of miners are trying ETH currently. We will see if it becomes easier and profitable. And BTC still has many options such as value going up, more efficient gear (we know it's coming). Just so many variables right now it's kinda hard to do much but watch and see what happens. The game is 80% power cost. 15% decent gear 5% common sense. Did not used to be this way but it is. Basically bitmain ,avalon ,BW and even bitfury have push it that direction. Which is fine with me as I can get some cheap power not as much as I want, but still by the end of the year maybe 13.5 kwatts from the current solar array. The problem is how do I expand it. $$$ that I do not have. I also don't know if the bigger array will ever get built. Would be nice if it does. Title: Re: Mining looks very profitable - or? Post by: Winoc on May 17, 2016, 03:20:48 AM Difficulty will increase over time.It will not remain same everytime.So your earning will reduce constantly when difficulty increases.
Title: Re: Mining looks very profitable - or? Post by: notlist3d on May 17, 2016, 03:33:32 AM Yes And you're going insanely nuts on math. It cost bout 100$ to run a S7 per month. It return 168$. Very soon the reward will halve and the difficulty constantly rise over time, diminishing returns. Why, when you confirm my math? Your numbers means a profit ratio of 1.7, close enough to my 1.8. I'm talking about current state. The halving will be in July which means you income will be cut in half. But not just at the halving. Check here: https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty. The difficulty is increasing (over 8% the last time). You will be at loss well before the halving... So much depends on electricity cost at this point. A LOT of miners are trying ETH currently. We will see if it becomes easier and profitable. And BTC still has many options such as value going up, more efficient gear (we know it's coming). Just so many variables right now it's kinda hard to do much but watch and see what happens. The game is 80% power cost. 15% decent gear 5% common sense. Did not used to be this way but it is. Basically bitmain ,avalon ,BW and even bitfury have push it that direction. Which is fine with me as I can get some cheap power not as much as I want, but still by the end of the year maybe 13.5 kwatts from the current solar array. The problem is how do I expand it. $$$ that I do not have. I also don't know if the bigger array will ever get built. Would be nice if it does. And you hit the nail on the head about power costs. S7's and A6's are still going to be great miners with right electricity even after having. So for those with the "mega" mines with super cheap power.... I think they still look profitable for quite a while. Expanding is kinda one of those scary things I know when going from mining in house to mining area... that was a scary time investing. It worked out good last summer for me. This summer I'm a little more cautious. I also am cautious on ETH to. I just am afraid of a lot of these miners who became unprofitable going GPU's. And it's totally banking on ETH. Time will tell how many jump over and what difficulty vs price goes. I see this as the summer off BTC and ETH as far as coins. Value... we will see. Title: Re: Mining looks very profitable - or? Post by: Amph on May 17, 2016, 05:59:58 AM the halving alone will make it unprofitable, based on your ratio, so i would avoid this scenario you are describing
i still believe it's better to wait for the next gen before investing again in the asic department Title: Re: Mining looks very profitable - or? Post by: Syke on May 17, 2016, 02:29:17 PM Given an electricity cost of 0.1 USD/kWh A reasonable assumption for a home miner, but miners aren't in homes anymore. Big farms pay much less than that. Title: Re: Mining looks very profitable - or? Post by: digaran on May 17, 2016, 02:32:57 PM While mining always remain profitable, since the whole idea of mining is to profit. But you could hit a loss of funds if you don't adapt and evolve.
As to use solar and wind energy or any renewable source of energy. otherwise big or small you can count on money loss. :) Title: Re: Mining looks very profitable - or? Post by: paradoxum on May 18, 2016, 07:23:47 AM At halving your "profit" doesn't get cut in half. Your Gross income (barring changes in fees) gets cut in half. The difficulty will drop some as negative/marginal players drop out - but ultimately only the leanest players will remain.
Title: Re: Mining looks very profitable - or? Post by: CryptoBjorn on May 19, 2016, 09:48:50 AM At halving your "profit" doesn't get cut in half. Your Gross income (barring changes in fees) gets cut in half. The difficulty will drop some as negative/marginal players drop out - but ultimately only the leanest players will remain. Which is why it don't make sense to buy miners before the halving. You are taking a big risk, since there is no solid information what will happen. Price drop, less diff. etc. But when it comes down to mining in general I don't think it's profitable for the small miner in a year now. Just look at the stats: https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty Today: 194,254,820,283 1 year ago: 48,807,487,245 That's 4 times more!!! Title: Re: Mining looks very profitable - or? Post by: philipma1957 on May 20, 2016, 07:43:58 PM At halving your "profit" doesn't get cut in half. Your Gross income (barring changes in fees) gets cut in half. The difficulty will drop some as negative/marginal players drop out - but ultimately only the leanest players will remain. Which is why it don't make sense to buy miners before the halving. You are taking a big risk, since there is no solid information what will happen. Price drop, less diff. etc. But when it comes down to mining in general I don't think it's profitable for the small miner in a year now. Just look at the stats: https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty Today: 194,254,820,283 1 year ago: 48,807,487,245 That's 4 times more!!! Well a lot more on the plate at this ½ ing of btc then the one in 2012. on dec 2012 we were close to 11m diff the entire network was 21or 22 th. almost all gpus some fpga's no asics. a top card was 35 to 40 percent of a gh so 3 hd7970's were 1 gh to 1.3 gh this would mean 22,000 x 3 or 60,000-70,000 gpus were the whole network. I now mine 28th which would have been 1.25 x the whole network at the last ½ ing. we have more hear now mining eth coin I figure about 100,000 r9 390's is the eth network. we have about 300,000 s-7's mining the btc network now. A lot can happen different. including a big retreat to eth coin. look at the market cap https://coinmarketcap.com/ 6.8 bill = bitcoin 1.1 billion = eth coin I am juggling the two coins at the moment. basically while anything can happen I fail to see a 3000 usd btc price in the next 7 months. while I could see a 100 usd eth price in the next 7 months note 3000/445 = 6.74 x 1 this would be future btc price vs current btc price jan 1 2017 100 /14.4 = 6.94 x 1 this would be future eth price vs current btc price jan 1 2017 I could see Eth coin doing that jump but not btc. Title: Re: Mining looks very profitable - or? Post by: Gaugh on May 21, 2016, 07:42:06 AM Yes And you're going insanely nuts on math. It cost bout 100$ to run a S7 per month. It return 168$. Very soon the reward will halve and the difficulty constantly rise over time, diminishing returns. Then miners will make the bulk of their money from transaction fees. Title: Re: Mining looks very profitable - or? Post by: VirosaGITS on May 21, 2016, 07:30:39 PM Yes And you're going insanely nuts on math. It cost bout 100$ to run a S7 per month. It return 168$. Very soon the reward will halve and the difficulty constantly rise over time, diminishing returns. Then miners will make the bulk of their money from transaction fees. Erm. Not really, its like 1-4% at the moment. So at the halving, assuming same fees, it would be 2-8%. Maybe it got up since i last checked, but i still think for a couple more halving, before the TX fee being the mainstay. In short, if you pay 100$ per month for your S7, high fees or no fees, you will not profit afterward by mining with it. |