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January 21, 2018, 09:10:29 PM |
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I moved a big portion of my portfolio into hashflare (which is sort of regret but not too much). Here are the downsides and things you should know.
Don't expect to make what a calculator tells you, difficulty will go up and your investments payouts will slow down with time. If the calculator said you will ROI in 100 days for example, I would guess a more realistic one to be 130-140 days. Which is quite a bit of time. So lets say I put in 100 Dollars worth of BTC into it, in the 130 days I would probably have at least been able to turn that into at least 200 if I moved it to good projects and ICO's, yet with cloud mining I don't get my initial investment back and with Hashflare it is a 1 year contract.
My payouts will eventually slow down with time unless I reinvest some of my earnings to get more hashpower, but that will put my ROI further on and I need to wait longer to be profitable. I am prioritizing first to get the amount of BTC I put in out first.
Also if you are going to do any cloud mining you need to take into account the minimum withdrawl amount. If you cannot liquidate your earnings quickly then thats a big problem. In my case I don't have spare fiat to put into crypto every month, so I did this to have a constant stream of income in BTC to buy tokens and coins I want for the next year. Speaking for hashflare I would say don't do it unless you can put in at least 2000 USD worth to kick it off, else you will have zero liquidity.
Its not a bad investment still, but its not as good as I expected it to be.
I do take some solace in the fact that I can see they make profit from me, which helps convince me its not some kind of scam (most likely). If you are going to look at alternatives always do the math for them, look at what they charge you per GH/sec, look at the cost of an Antminer and look at their maintenance fees etc. If you do not see a very profitable business behind that then I would suggest you move on. The cheapest cloud mining isn't always the best.
Overall its not too bad though, they pushed up the minimum withdrawl right after I joined, which limited me on some ICOs I wanted to get into but its not too bad. I had quite a few dollars worth of BTC to kick it off with so it's okay for me.
Investing into a rock solid ICO is a better option though, or going into a good existing coin.
Hope this helped you mate, shout if you want to know anything else specific.
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