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January 16, 2017, 02:16:14 PM |
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I didn't think it was possible, but it appears as though at least for now, directly mining BTC is turning into a bit of a suckers game for the small miner compared to Altcoin mining.
Using an arbitrary metric, the amount of hardware it takes to net $5 USD per day (this is about what a 6 card rig would do), a used S9 costs about somewhere between 1.5X to 2X of what an equivalent gpu setup does.
This is ironic, given the past constant snark and smack directed towards altcoins. Altcoin mining at least for the past year and for right now has many advantages, not the least being multiple, competitive, high quality suppliers.
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