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Other => Beginners & Help => Topic started by: boconniff40 on March 02, 2012, 07:35:01 PM



Title: Is this calculator accurate?
Post by: boconniff40 on March 02, 2012, 07:35:01 PM
http://beta.ivc.no/bitcoin/namecoin/#

According to it, Namecoin mining is actually more profitable than bitcoin.


Title: Re: Is this calculator accurate?
Post by: DeathAndTaxes on March 02, 2012, 07:38:48 PM
The computations look right but namecoin difficulty is 547,532.38 and they are worth ~ 0.004 BTC ea.

Of course you can mine BOTH namecoin and bitcoin at the same time using merged mining so mining ONLY namecoin would be silly even if it was more profitable than Bitcoin.