Mining to break even?

[l008com II]

I did some mining about 10 years ago. Just some light stuff with a single tower and two decent GPUs. I kept all the coins I mined and they're worth a pretty penny today. I'm not rich or anything, but its nice to have.

So I'm wondering if theres a way coin you can mine these days but with a different goal in mind: breaking even.

I'd want a coin I could mine and sell everything I mine right away for USD. No holding and investing and seeing which way the markets lean. Just in and out. And I'd like to do this with just an old tower or two or three using GPUs. So a coin like bitcoin clearly wouldn't work. A CPU only coin would be nice but I don't think thats really a thing is it?

My goal in this endeavor would just be to break even. To have my coin income match or maybe be slightly large than the electricity expense.

Is something like this a reality and today crypto world?

Why would you want to mine coins if you're just breaking even, it seems pointless? Spoken like a hypothetical person who lives in a very temperate climate. If I could load up my house with old mac pros running not so old GPUs booted into Windows 7 mining coins, i could save hundreds if not thousands of dollars on home heating oil every Winter. That heat you generate from mining coin is only wasted energy in the Summer. In the winter heat is a valuable resource!

My total cost for electricity with supply and delivery and all the misc fees is about 44¢ per kWh.

What I ended up doing 10 years ago was mining litecoin, then trading that in for bitcoin. Then once I gave up on the litecoin, I switched over to mining doge. And I mined that until it's mining merged and the blocksize shot way down. Then I parted out the machine and retired.

[Gabrics]

44c/kWh is that a typo? I mean that is horribly expensive even by EU prices.
Doing anything at that rate is pretty much out of the question IMHO.

[l008com II]

Well it's possible i was interpreting my bill wrong, maybe some of the charges were flat fees that were listed as if they were by the kwh. I'll look at a few other bills and see.

[Gabrics]

It could very well be 44c depending on the plan and place you are. Still it is a horrible price, you will need 1/10 of that to make mining viable.

[NotFuzzyWarm]

Bitcoin cannot be mined using CPU/GPU's. Once ASIC's showed up in 2014 diff has risen far too high to even think of using CPU/GPU's and now only a few altcoins can be mined using them.

That said, this area is for BTC only - no alts allowed here so please move this thread to the alts area where it belongs. If ya don't the mods will move it for you.

[philipma1957]

You know you can not directly mine BTC with a pc's cpu or gpu's

here are topics for you

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5495024.0

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5494310.0