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Title: Are ASICs the only profitable way to mine bitcoins? Post by: CryptoKeeper98 on September 12, 2017, 07:32:59 AM Is it ever possible to be profitable with GPUs?
Title: Re: Are ASICs the only profitable way to mine bitcoins? Post by: -ck on September 12, 2017, 08:06:04 AM Is it ever possible to be profitable with GPUs? If the GPUs are free and the electricity is free... even then you can't even earn small change with a year of mining with the highest end GPU.Title: Re: Are ASICs the only profitable way to mine bitcoins? Post by: User365 on September 12, 2017, 08:06:26 AM Is it ever possible to be profitable with GPUs? NO ! But there is a workaround ;) If you donīt have ASICīs but GPUīs (maby a few rigs ?) you can sell your hashpower via nicehash and you get paid in BTC. (https://www.nicehash.com/) Title: Re: Are ASICs the only profitable way to mine bitcoins? Post by: fanatic26 on September 12, 2017, 03:15:19 PM If you donīt have ASICīs but GPUīs (maby a few rigs ?) you can sell your hashpower via nicehash and you get paid in BTC. (https://www.nicehash.com/) You will lose money this way. Nicehash takes advantage of people too lazy to handle their own mining revenue and manually convert it into other currencies. Title: Re: Are ASICs the only profitable way to mine bitcoins? Post by: reflector on September 12, 2017, 06:17:33 PM Is it ever possible to be profitable with GPUs? GPU and cloud mining will never give you profit as of seeing the current situation. If you get the free electricity then earnings will be your profit. I will suggest to try ASIC hardware miners like antminer or avalon series miners. You have to pick the higher end miner. If you wish to get high profit go with S9. Title: Re: Are ASICs the only profitable way to mine bitcoins? Post by: QuintLeo on September 12, 2017, 07:28:40 PM ASIC-based miners took over Bitcoin (and all other SHA256 based coins) several years back.
They are SO MUCH MORE EFFICIENT than GPUs that a GPU would be LUCKY to ever earn dust, and WOULD die before it could earn back it's own cost even on free electric. Current top-end GPUs might get to a hashrate in the 2 Gigahash/sec ballpark - LOW END current ASIC models manage 3000 TIMES that on ballpark 5-6 times the power use. It's like trying to compete in Formula One or NASCAR racing with a foot-pedal type kiddie go-kart. Title: Re: Are ASICs the only profitable way to mine bitcoins? Post by: sikkan on September 14, 2017, 08:43:41 AM as ppl already said. You cannot mine BTC directly with GPUs.. but, you can mine altcoins with GPU and trade it for BTC. Or hold the altcoin and hope for a swing up in price :)
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