If TIPS is the 2nd most profitable coin whats the 1st?
maxcoin
How do you know that? Neither TIPS nor MAX is listed at coinwarz
NEXT cannot be "mined" in the traditional way. It's mainly a POS coin.
MAX current diff is 111564.58321428, or a ~16000 GH/S network.
TIPS current diff is 27.91, or a ~2GH/s network.
1 R9 280x can hash at 360MH/s for MAX, and ~740KH/s for TIPS.
Each day, there's 2880 blocks of 96 MAX mined, so each day, with 1 R9 280X, you're mining 2880*96*360/16000000 = ~6.2 MAX at current diff.
At current cryptsy price it's ~0,021 BTC per day, or 1 BTC in 47 days
Each day, there's 1440 blocks of 1250000 TIPS on average mined, so each day, with 1 R9 280X, you're mining 1440*1250000*740/2000000 = ~660000 TIPS at current diff.
At current cryptsy price it's ~0,008 BTC per day, or 1 BTC in 125 days
TIPS would not be the 2nd most profitable coin to mine if it were on coinwarz at the current moment, but would on average since the DOGE block reward halving.
Not being on coinwarz is an advantage in itself, there's a little less miners than for others big coins.
MAXCOIN profitability is overkill for the time being, because you have to download a specific cgminer for it. But this will not stay like this for too long, price is slowly decreasing on cryptsy and should pretty much continue until it's divided by 2 or 3, if the network hashrate stays the same.
So you can mine MAXCOIN while it's still extremely profitable, and buy TIPS with it. Then you can come back to mining TIPS.
TIPS can increase 10 folds, or even more. MAX is over hyped, and I don't believe it can increase in value. It's just 10 days old, so there's currently a 9-10% coin count inflation per day. That's too much dump for it to sustain its current value. To stay at the same current price, its market cap should double in the next 10 days, to 12 millions $.
Fedora is currently only a 1 million $ market cap.
You can do the math on which one of the two can make you rich.