Mining an Altcoin for Bitcoin

[super3]

I was just curious if anyone mined altcoins, and then immediately converted them to Bitcoin. According to Dustcoin on my my rig's specs I get would make an extra $10 a month mining Terracoins instead.

[mhill12]

The problem is that the altcoin prices are more volatile than bitcoin, some coins (like Terracoin) will fluxuate from between profitable/not profitable a couple times a day. That being said, I made a nice bit of money mining feathercoin and freicoin the past few days.

Check out coinchoose.com, they have historical profitability data for most of the coins that Duscoin supports.

[mhill12]

Also, clock your scrypt mining rates, Litecoin is literally at 150% right now, much better than BTC or TRC.

[super3]

Also, clock your scrypt mining rates, Litecoin is literally at 150% right now, much better than BTC or TRC.

I had trouble setting up Litecoin mining, but I might try again (I didn't spend that much time troubleshooting). From what I have seen TRC has been consistently more profitable.

That might be able to be fixed though. It would be conceivable to setup a program on a pool that does multiple alt coins, like Coinotron. Just check check the difficultly every few minutes, and just mine the most profitable one. Even with fees you would get about double your mining worth, and be unaffected by fluctuations in a single altcoin.

[Jazkal]

That might be able to be fixed though. It would be conceivable to setup a program on a pool that does multiple alt coins, like Coinotron. Just check check the difficultly every few minutes, and just mine the most profitable one. Even with fees you would get about double your mining worth, and be unaffected by fluctuations in a single altcoin.

That is what CryptoSwitcher does: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=172121.0

[iwantcoins]

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[altcoinplex]

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