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Title: Mining with thin clients profitable? Post by: Bordsvatten on April 03, 2014, 10:51:13 PM Hello, i'm really new to this mining thingy but I was just woundering; Can it be profitable to mine with only thin clients? Like if you make a big "cluster" of them?
If it works, will it be super slow? Thanks in forehand :) Title: Re: Mining with thin clients profitable? Post by: frankenmint on April 03, 2014, 10:56:07 PM Hello, i'm really new to this mining thingy but I was just woundering; Can it be profitable to mine with only thin clients? Like if you make a big "cluster" of them? If it works, will it be super slow? Thanks in forehand :) That is the same as mining with the server itself - highly miniscule time wasted activity, period. Title: Re: Mining with thin clients profitable? Post by: -ck on April 03, 2014, 11:06:52 PM On year mining with 1000 thin clients would probably earn you one satoshi in total.
Title: Re: Mining with thin clients profitable? Post by: frankenmint on April 03, 2014, 11:25:21 PM On year mining with 1000 thin clients would probably earn you one satoshi in total.
http://www.trueventurestec.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/haha-business.jpg Title: Re: Mining with thin clients profitable? Post by: Dare on April 03, 2014, 11:30:53 PM Bitcoin mining on GPUs has almost zero return, though somewhat better with litecoin. The only real effect CPU mining on a server or thin clients would have is significant lag for users and increased power consumption on all of the devices.
Title: Re: Mining with thin clients profitable? Post by: Bordsvatten on April 04, 2014, 12:04:51 AM Okay, thanks for the answers everyone!
Mabey it will be better with somethinge like a raspberry pie and add USB ports and go for USB-errupters? (USB hub with its own power source ofc) Title: Re: Mining with thin clients profitable? Post by: Dare on April 04, 2014, 04:16:32 AM Okay, thanks for the answers everyone! Mabey it will be better with somethinge like a raspberry pie and add USB ports and go for USB-errupters? (USB hub with its own power source ofc) It would be more profitable, but you'd have to mine altcoins (most likely through a multipool) in order to reach ROI on block erupters. Mining isn't currently a particularly profitable business to get into without substantial capital, AFAIK. However, if you're looking into mining to learn more about how bitcoin works (like me), a Raspberry Pi with a block erupter or two would be a good way to get started with ASICs. Title: Re: Mining with thin clients profitable? Post by: Bordsvatten on April 04, 2014, 10:50:45 AM Okay, thanks for the answers everyone! Mabey it will be better with somethinge like a raspberry pie and add USB ports and go for USB-errupters? (USB hub with its own power source ofc) It would be more profitable, but you'd have to mine altcoins (most likely through a multipool) in order to reach ROI on block erupters. Mining isn't currently a particularly profitable business to get into without substantial capital, AFAIK. However, if you're looking into mining to learn more about how bitcoin works (like me), a Raspberry Pi with a block erupter or two would be a good way to get started with ASICs. Thank you for your answer! Well, this seems really hard to make money through... I thought it would be as easy as just buying USB hubs with alot of erupters, join a pool and bitcoins will slowly but steadily roll in... I guess i was wrong :/ |
