Is there anyone here who makes a living out of mining with cuda cards only? no ASIC.
Christian?
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I dont think so, with things being so new and the development of coins and cheap but powerfull nvidia cards only recently being released. The amount of investment needed to earn enough to live with would be huge.
I think there are a few "big" Nvidia farm (not sure though if they already made a return over investment) but since the new algos are taking off together with the asic moving to scrypt . It could become profitable (if nvidia keep the price on the reasonable side... )
Look at 1gh's HVC mining power in the first week, I remembered someone had 3.4Gh/s farms there. I believe at least part of that power came from nVidia side. Look at other 'cuda coins' pool, i believe someone may have 100-200 750Ti size cards farm there.
For established coins (Bitcoin, scrypt-based coins), I do believe ASIC is the future, like it or not. I got my foot wet by purchasing a Antminer S2 batch 3 just weeks ago, and now battle with some minor hardware issue, but I think it is the right way to go....
Most of us are just geeks with the hope of rising cryptocurrencies, but unless you are a big farm owner or pool operator, it would be too risky to bid everything and make a living out of alter coin mining. I bet someone may make more from trading than mining. Or the most profitable way is releasing some scam coin and just do pump and dump. Just started mining back to Jan because of Doge ( I love that community), but I learned so much since then. Now I just follow Chris' summon on new cuda coins, and ignore all other scam coins. I think that's the "true power" of Chris, whenever he recommend something coins, followers like us will devote our hash power to at least give it a couple of days of try.
BTW, if Chris release a scam coin, I will follow.... LOL.