Mining with thin clients profitable?

[Bordsvatten]

Hello, i'm really new to this mining thingy but I was just woundering; Can it be profitable to mine with only thin clients? Like if you make a big "cluster" of them?

If it works, will it be super slow?

Thanks in forehand

[frankenmint]

Hello, i'm really new to this mining thingy but I was just woundering; Can it be profitable to mine with only thin clients? Like if you make a big "cluster" of them?

If it works, will it be super slow?

Thanks in forehand

That is the same as mining with the server itself - highly miniscule time wasted activity, period.

[-ck]

On year mining with 1000 thin clients would probably earn you one satoshi in total.

[frankenmint]

On year mining with 1000 thin clients would probably earn you one satoshi in total.

• spend X hours on your employers supercluster to build this
• 
• Profit!

[Dare]

Bitcoin mining on GPUs has almost zero return, though somewhat better with litecoin. The only real effect CPU mining on a server or thin clients would have is significant lag for users and increased power consumption on all of the devices.

[Bordsvatten]

Okay, thanks for the answers everyone!

Mabey it will be better with somethinge like a raspberry pie and add USB ports and go for USB-errupters? (USB hub with its own power source ofc)

[Dare]

Okay, thanks for the answers everyone!

Mabey it will be better with somethinge like a raspberry pie and add USB ports and go for USB-errupters? (USB hub with its own power source ofc)

It would be more profitable, but you'd have to mine altcoins (most likely through a multipool) in order to reach ROI on block erupters. Mining isn't currently a particularly profitable business to get into without substantial capital, AFAIK.

However, if you're looking into mining to learn more about how bitcoin works (like me), a Raspberry Pi with a block erupter or two would be a good way to get started with ASICs.

[Bordsvatten]

Okay, thanks for the answers everyone!

Mabey it will be better with somethinge like a raspberry pie and add USB ports and go for USB-errupters? (USB hub with its own power source ofc)

It would be more profitable, but you'd have to mine altcoins (most likely through a multipool) in order to reach ROI on block erupters. Mining isn't currently a particularly profitable business to get into without substantial capital, AFAIK.

However, if you're looking into mining to learn more about how bitcoin works (like me), a Raspberry Pi with a block erupter or two would be a good way to get started with ASICs.

Thank you for your answer!

Well, this seems really hard to make money through... I thought it would be as easy as just buying USB hubs with alot of erupters, join a pool and bitcoins will slowly but steadily roll in... I guess i was wrong :/