is there a calculator for mining for the past ?

[Mahmoud70]

 see here https://cryptomining.tools/calculator i can  calculate the the mining profit based on what  the price and the diff and the halving for bitcoin , is there something like it for eth

[batsonxl]

Yes there is go to whattomine and click on eth then you can write diff reward electric price.

[adaseb]

The best site to find out what the mining profitability was in the past is to go to,
https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/ethereum-mining_profitability.html

That chart shows the amount of profit made per day per 1MH/s. So as you can tell ETH was most profitable actually in early 2016 because back then the difficulty was much lower than it is today. And it was also much earlier to source GPUs.

You could of bought a second hand R9 280X for like $100 and that hashed at like 22MH/s and pulled 200 Watts. Now cards are more expensive, but only slightly faster and consume maybe half. However the profitability was much better back then that it is today.

[HashingTower]

I'm very certain that you are talking about Ethereum mining right? All I can say is most online mining calculators don't keep record of the past, also I remember clearly that in 2019 a rx580 that gives 30-32mh goes down to 0.50$ per day

[anu1908]

as mentioned above, you can use whattomine to calculate it, but you have to manually input the difficulty etc. i think you can grab the data from blockchain explorers or something similar. is there a reason for doing this btw? are you doing a research?

[FloridaKid]

The best site to find out what the mining profitability was in the past is to go to,
https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/ethereum-mining_profitability.html

That chart shows the amount of profit made per day per 1MH/s. So as you can tell ETH was most profitable actually in early 2016 because back then the difficulty was much lower than it is today. And it was also much earlier to source GPUs.

You could of bought a second hand R9 280X for like $100 and that hashed at like 22MH/s and pulled 200 Watts. Now cards are more expensive, but only slightly faster and consume maybe half. However the profitability was much better back then that it is today.

22MH @200watt sucks mate, I will never invest money on such cards, why not gtx1060? This card can do 22MH @ 80watts which is still fair enough than that R9 280X, even if your electricity bill is cheap build reasonable rigs

[batsonxl]

The best site to find out what the mining profitability was in the past is to go to,
https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/ethereum-mining_profitability.html

That chart shows the amount of profit made per day per 1MH/s. So as you can tell ETH was most profitable actually in early 2016 because back then the difficulty was much lower than it is today. And it was also much earlier to source GPUs.

You could of bought a second hand R9 280X for like $100 and that hashed at like 22MH/s and pulled 200 Watts. Now cards are more expensive, but only slightly faster and consume maybe half. However the profitability was much better back then that it is today.

22MH @200watt sucks mate, I will never invest money on such cards, why not gtx1060? This card can do 22MH @ 80watts which is still fair enough than that R9 280X, even if your electricity bill is cheap build reasonable rigs

He is talking about 5 years ago. 22mhs-30mhs was very good hashrate for cards at that time. Imagine it is like 3080-3090 right now

[adaseb]

First of all you can't even mine ETH with an R9 280X because the DAG is way over 4GB and those GPUs were 3GB. When the DAG was 2.5GB or so there was something called DAG thrashing which made the 280X hash at like 15MH/s. SO its beens years since people have mined with a 280X.

However, looking at that chart you can see how much easier mining was back in early 2016 compared to today. Back then you could of built a 5 GPU rig for less than $750 or so. How much does it cost today to build a 5 GPU compatible rig? Probably not even close. Back then there was less competition, the difficulty went up but not as fast as it does today. It was the golden days of mining ETH I would say. Now its difficult for a beginner to start unless they got at least 5 figures worth of savings.