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Title: Intersting statistics on mining and profitability Post by: vm_mpn on November 09, 2014, 12:06:38 AM This is a bit raw as statistics but should be close enough as a historical reference:
October 2013 KnC Jupiters started to ship: As you can see difficulty was still low enough for 580 GH/s+ miners to mint over 1.5 BTC / day Bitcoin price was heading from $200 to over $1200 (would get there in less than 2 month): https://i.imgur.com/g1oA34m.png Around a month later, November 2013 difficulty jumped up x3 with Bitcoin price hovering around $340 :) where 1TH/s miner would still yield you close to one coin a day. Those early KnC Jupiters would pay for themselves by now and were becoming money printing machines. https://i.imgur.com/RffYH56.png Today, a year later, you would need around 80TH/s miner to mint 1 BTC and consuming over 40KW of electricity per day with over $20,000 invested in hardware. https://i.imgur.com/VreFjTb.png NOTE: A Big Thanks to https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty (https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty) and their wonderful stats and graphs. Title: Re: Intersting statistics on mining and profitability Post by: johny08 on November 10, 2014, 12:27:45 PM nov 2013 was a very special time to get rich. profitability is now down and difficulty will decrease slightly until next Asics generation coming out middle 2015. Then its again time to reinvest.
Title: Re: Intersting statistics on mining and profitability Post by: puzzel.me on November 10, 2014, 01:46:43 PM nov 2013 was a very special time to get rich. profitability is now down and difficulty will decrease slightly until next Asics generation coming out middle 2015. Then its again time to reinvest. mining depends a lot on price of bitcoin, and so mining can still be profitable if btc orice goes up. Be optimistic, mining can also be profitable if you have free electricity(yes, some people do).Title: Re: Intersting statistics on mining and profitability Post by: Etanllah on November 11, 2014, 04:45:45 PM These are some pretty cool stats. We will need the bitcoin price to get back to the $500+ range. Things were much better back then :)
Title: Re: Intersting statistics on mining and profitability Post by: mavericklm on November 12, 2014, 09:55:26 AM no we dont! the difficulty will go up to much!
Title: Re: Intersting statistics on mining and profitability Post by: jdany on November 12, 2014, 12:36:30 PM Since July, I think the low price of BTC helped squeeze another month or two out of mining.
Miners should be thankful for the BTC price. Title: Re: Intersting statistics on mining and profitability Post by: goozman96 on November 13, 2014, 05:45:37 PM Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the price of Bitcoin was hovering in the ~$1000 region in November 2013, not $340 ???
Title: Re: Intersting statistics on mining and profitability Post by: vm_mpn on November 13, 2014, 07:51:21 PM Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the price of Bitcoin was hovering in the ~$1000 region in November 2013, not $340 ??? Yes, closer to the end of November... Would you believe that BTC price closed at $421.25 November 13, 2013, exactly one year ago? It would take another two weeks to reach $1k mark. Title: Re: Intersting statistics on mining and profitability Post by: jdany on November 14, 2014, 11:40:45 AM If it should repeat, I'll be thoroughly convinced that I don't know enough about this industry to play here.
Title: Re: Intersting statistics on mining and profitability Post by: picolo on November 14, 2014, 08:28:34 PM nov 2013 was a very special time to get rich. profitability is now down and difficulty will decrease slightly until next Asics generation coming out middle 2015. Then its again time to reinvest. mining depends a lot on price of bitcoin, and so mining can still be profitable if btc orice goes up. Be optimistic, mining can also be profitable if you have free electricity(yes, some people do).You need to have the hardware at a cheap price and cheap or free electricity but you want to make a BTC profit not only a USD profit that is smaller that the USD profit you would have made if you bought bitcoins |
