Think about this.  Why would somebody go out of his/her way to host miners and have them mine so that you could make a PROFIT off of such an endeavor.  They would be dealing with the noise, heat, pollution, maintenance while you get the riches?  It is possible, but I can't really find examples of this in my life.

Having said that, I can't really find too many examples of where buying a miner earns you more than buying the coins.  BTC dropped to $560, it's even cheaper to buy now, makes more sense than 2 weeks ago to buy as opposed to mine unless you plan on solo mining.

As noted above simply take (old dif) / (new dif) to see how much less you will earn.  You shouldn't look at day to day earnings, however, because those can swing off from the expected averages quite a bit based on pool luck.  Over the 2016 block interval it should be close assuming the pool doesn't have a tremendous variability during that time.

Ahh kk.  I was thinking you were getting the RK-BOX which uses about 500W. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=648455.0

I'm trying to find the post where they have all 3 listed but can't seem to find it for some reason.

Same basic idea would apply.  Buy a good gold power supply.  Figure out how much wattage the 12V rail supplies at max.  Multiply that times 0.8 to give yourself headroom since PSUs loose their peak output as time goes by.  Then you will have the total wattage you can play with so basically just divide that total.  With the smaller R-Box's using only 40W or so you can plug a bunch of them onto a 1000W PSU - the cabling would become the main issue.

Why are you new users condoning the outright theft of other people's property?  If you are mining with somebody else's hardware (in the case above it is a gov sponsored entity so it belongs to the taxpayers) without their consent than that is theft.  It's no different than using a large botnet.

There have been several documented cases of IT people coming on these forums asking how to mine illegally and stealthily and they end up losing their job if not going to prison.

And for 15000 doge/day?  Sheesh, in March I mined 200K doge per day with just 20 video cards and you want to waste a supercomputer for 15000 doge... unbelievable.

Just as a head's up to new people here.  Always look at the join date and the activity/post-count of somebody posting like this.  Almost all new accounts that post like this are either trying to get your information to spam you or even worse, they are trying to steal your passwords and/or wallets through trojans/keyloggers/custom virii/etc.

I would advise everybody to not using the machine on which you host a wallet to ever go to any of these sites.

Please, we can't be bothered with numbers and statistical facts.  It just feels good buying a overpriced security and passing it off to another unsuspecting fool

Flutter, which miner are you talking about specifically becase they are selling 3 models and the power ratings are magnitudes different.

If you end up staying here for more than 6 months and become part of the community you will find yourself agreeing with his actions when you notice all the scammers and panhandlers coming here.  You joined less than 4 weeks ago.  Had you joined 6 months ago and been here a while you would understand.

Well just like any business.  If you open a Starbucks in some place with almost no foot traffic you will go under quickly.  You have to advertise (aka spam) the hell out of it.

Personally I think faucets are a waste of time.  I understand their functional usefulness to get people interested, teach them about transactions and how to use a wallet, get comfortable with amounts like 300 satoshi, etc, but once you're past that stage it's time to move on.

The genius who makes the faucet gets 5x what he is paying you for your money clickwork.  Basically you're becoming somebody's labor.

If you want to make money make your own faucet and advertise the hell out of it... thereby sucking in new users who come on here...... asking why they hate ads 

I love how we're giving answers to an OP who has not been on for 3 months 

For those newbies interested in mining a 7950 can be undervolted and would typically run just over 200W, so you could run 4 comfortably with scrypt.  The more energy efficient coins are even better.

One thing to consider though, every 10C of ambient air temp will pull another 10% of power form the card.  If you're running them in summer the resistance from heat and increased fan usage causes more power draw.  Hence winter rocks!

Isn't your time worth more to you?  I would make about $1 per hour hitting faucets currently.  I did them back in 2011, of course they were paying 0.01BTC per hit back then.

Time would be better spent selling clutter in your house.  You would get some work done and have $ to buy coins!

GPU mining is very risky now that even scrypt has ASICs available.  It will only be a matter of time before X11/X13/N have ASICs (assuming those coins survive to warrant ASIC development).  I would say GPU mining is only a somewhat safe bet if you have free electricity.  Barring that you're better off buying/speculating.

Perhaps you guys haven't traded on this forum or other forums before.  I've been selling computer hardware online since 2000.  If a trader creates a new account, he's back to 0.  He will have no trust, no eBay feedback, no Heatware - nothing.  Not sure what you meant Harley997

If his account is stolen or sold then his recent trade history would have a pause.  Somebody with 150 trust like Canary isn't going to risk his reputation for $300 in Paypal    Some new user with 1 or 2 positive small 0.01BTC transactions would.  That's why I said look at the user's history the same you would at your friends.  You have friends you would give your house key to and friends you would lend a quarter 

We're still good on the decentralization part.  The community aspect seems to be lacking with idiots flocking to Ghash.IO

You clearly do not know what the Martingale system is if you are winning big.  You are supposed to bet small, but repetively and keep nipping away until you win, then restart at a small bet.  Perhaps you meant you went onto 10 rounds of fail and then won, in which case you actually came close to completely failing.

So sad that people can't even enjoy gambling without having a system now lol. Gonna hit the craps table again.  Last time some old geyser tossed my wife a $1k coin at Wynn for being hot roller - easiest money we ever made 

As a kid I did police ride alongs and respected LEO like it was the word of God.  Having grown up and seen the stories of what crooked LEOs do I don't feel that way anymore.  Living in Los Angeles I can see the need for some of these types of tools like Hum-Vs, heavy machines guns, etc.  When you see what gets turned in when they have the gun buyback program you would be shocked (well maybe not if you're ex-mil).  They will regularly get anti-tank weapon, anti-air guns and even got a SAM this past year.  And LA formerly being the bank robbery capitol we get this every couple of months:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2ZwIrIB1is

We're also seeing beheadings thanks to MS13 and other drug cartel gangs in the area these days.  Unfortunately, until the gangsters tone down their weaponry, SWAT (which BTW was more or less pioneered in Los Angeles thanks to all the wackos here) will always have to keep up.

I really need to get some guns and learn how to defend my house but until that happens I'm calling 911 and relying on their training to possibly keep me alive.

I think this is the final litmus test of what Americans are willing to tolerate.  The news/MSM can only handle so much backlash in this digital age.  I recognize 50% of the populace couldn't care less what happens as long as it doesn't interrupt their GTA V game, but the other 50% regardless of political affiliation has to agree that having multiple layers of government flat our lie to the American public when they've been caught with their hands in the cookie jar is grounds to revolt/impeachment/a bitch slap.

All we need is an IT guy to do the napkin math to show the chances of that much date being "lost" on the many platforms is as likely as a private key is to be brute forced.

...gets off soapbox to go play GTA V (nah, never played any of the GTA games).

Isn't Leonardo DiCaprio in there?  I won't watch it.  Hypocritical bastard promotes green energy and parties all around the world on private jets and yachts - I bet he has used 10x more fossil fuel in his partying alone than I will in my entire life.  So that would be a no.

I've donated over 6 digits of USD to charity and helped build a school in a 3rd world country.  I don't believe I am rich.  I need to wake up to an alarm clock every day (or my kids crying) and I have to decide what to eat that day based on price rather than what I think would taste the best or be best for me.

The day goverment representatives actually serve the public I might change my mind.

Look at this disgusting video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51kAw4OTlA0

Moronic Hollywood detritus.  They're pledging to the President of the US.  No you fools, he should be pledging to us.  They are our servants... somewhere along the path to democracy/republic this got lost.

I think he meant total network effect of all the AM chips that AM has sent out to different manufacturers that he listed.  Each one of those just needs to do 15PH/s which is not unreasonable if they are less than 1W per GH/s.  Not only are the assemblers of ASICs but also the chip manufacturers are making money and distributing it.  Yifu, that rat, is probably somewhere in there too.