Free electricity but no free Internet... Should I still mine?

[Wesley]

I live near a university that has a library where anyone can just enter and plug in their laptop.

However, since I'm not a student there, I don't have access to their free Internet. Now, I know that you need to be connected to the Internet in order to mine so my question is, do you think it would be worthwhile to mine in my situation? Obviously I would need to use my mobile Internet to mine which is rather expensive per GB.

Because of this, I'm guessing that the profitability of mining would depend on the amount of bandwidth that mining consumes, correct?

The library is open from about 6 o'clock morning to just before midnight, so that would be roughly 15-18 hours of non-stop mining.

The miner would have to be quiet too and not emit too much heat. A USB-powered miner or something a bit bigger but with passive cooling would be perfect.

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[serje]

I live near a university that has a library where anyone can just enter and plug in their laptop.

However, since I'm not a student there, I don't have access to their free Internet. Now, I know that you need to be connected to the Internet in order to mine so my question is, do you think it would be worthwhile to mine in my situation? Obviously I would need to use my mobile Internet to mine which is rather expensive per GB.

Because of this, I'm guessing that the profitability of mining would depend on the amount of bandwidth that mining consumes, correct?

The library is open from about 6 o'clock morning to just before midnight, so that would be roughly 15-18 hours of non-stop mining.

The miner would have to be quiet too and not emit too much heat. A USB-powered miner or something a bit bigger but with passive cooling would be perfect.

seriously now ... you want to say you have nothing better to do than just go there and waste 15-18 hours/day watching your miner mine???


get a job! Get some internet and electricity at home and mine from there!

[byt411]

I live near a university that has a library where anyone can just enter and plug in their laptop.

However, since I'm not a student there, I don't have access to their free Internet. Now, I know that you need to be connected to the Internet in order to mine so my question is, do you think it would be worthwhile to mine in my situation? Obviously I would need to use my mobile Internet to mine which is rather expensive per GB.

Because of this, I'm guessing that the profitability of mining would depend on the amount of bandwidth that mining consumes, correct?

The library is open from about 6 o'clock morning to just before midnight, so that would be roughly 15-18 hours of non-stop mining.

The miner would have to be quiet too and not emit too much heat. A USB-powered miner or something a bit bigger but with passive cooling would be perfect.

seriously now ... you want to say you have nothing better to do than just go there and waste 15-18 hours/day watching your miner mine???


get a job! Get some internet and electricity at home and mine from there!

Exactly, it's just retarded. You can get a cheap GAWMiner Fury, but unless you stupidly sit at a library for nearly the entire day for like 3 months, you won't profit.
Forget it.

[mcculum0010]

Buy a wifi antenna the longer the range the better. Some can reach up to 20 km. If buy you from some chinese in ebay they even include a cd that will enable you to automatically hack weak wifi systems and you will able to connect even it has passwords.

[serje]

Buy a wifi antenna the longer the range the better. Some can reach up to 20 km. If buy you from some chinese in ebay they even include a cd that will enable you to automatically hack weak wifi systems and you will able to connect even it has passwords.

lol .... why would you hack a wi-fi???


I never understood people who hack wi-fi's to use them!

You hack a wi-fi if you need someone else password .... not to use his wi-fi ... because if you hack a bad ass mother fucker's wi-fi then he will hack your passwords!
 

[Dogtanian]

lol, no you should not mine. It's quite clear you know very little about this. Without expensive mining equipment you will get zero. You can't just take your laptop and a usb miner you bought off ebay plonk it down in a library for a few hours and expect to get some easy coins. Please do some more research before you jump in.

[Chrithu]

If the IT guy of said library knows his job you won't be able to mine anyways, because he'll have blocked any ports except for HTTP, HTTPS and maybe the most common ports for Mail.

My advise: Just forget mining if you want to do it to "earn" money. Either safe up some Dollars and then just buy Bitcoins directly and do some trading (buy low, sell high) or do stuff that get's paid in Bitcoin, like a Signature Campaign in this forum.

[Bizmark13]

If the IT guy of said library knows his job you won't be able to mine anyways, because he'll have blocked any ports except for HTTP, HTTPS and maybe the most common ports for Mail.

My advise: Just forget mining if you want to do it to "earn" money. Either safe up some Dollars and then just buy Bitcoins directly and do some trading (buy low, sell high) or do stuff that get's paid in Bitcoin, like a Signature Campaign in this forum.

He won't be using their Internet anyway, so I doubt the IT guy can do anything about it.

[LightningBlade]

I live near a university that has a library where anyone can just enter and plug in their laptop.

However, since I'm not a student there, I don't have access to their free Internet. Now, I know that you need to be connected to the Internet in order to mine so my question is, do you think it would be worthwhile to mine in my situation? Obviously I would need to use my mobile Internet to mine which is rather expensive per GB.

Because of this, I'm guessing that the profitability of mining would depend on the amount of bandwidth that mining consumes, correct?

The library is open from about 6 o'clock morning to just before midnight, so that would be roughly 15-18 hours of non-stop mining.

The miner would have to be quiet too and not emit too much heat. A USB-powered miner or something a bit bigger but with passive cooling would be perfect.

Well, you can do that only if you stay very close to the library and don't mine to move your miner everyday. You can save some electricity..

[Baitty]

Get a job and invest in proper mining equipment if you want a chance in making some profit from mining its so hard to get into mining these days you need a lot of cash to begin with.

[whitefly]

Buy a wifi antenna the longer the range the better. Some can reach up to 20 km. If buy you from some chinese in ebay they even include a cd that will enable you to automatically hack weak wifi systems and you will able to connect even it has passwords.

Can you provide me a link with auction like this?
Never heard of CDs like these. That's how script kiddies are born.

[InwardContour]

Instead of mine or buying mining dedicated harware you should just buy bitcoins directly.
Mining isn't profitable and if you want to try just for fun, rent a cloud rig for a day and have fun with that.

[Chrithu]

If the IT guy of said library knows his job you won't be able to mine anyways, because he'll have blocked any ports except for HTTP, HTTPS and maybe the most common ports for Mail.

My advise: Just forget mining if you want to do it to "earn" money. Either safe up some Dollars and then just buy Bitcoins directly and do some trading (buy low, sell high) or do stuff that get's paid in Bitcoin, like a Signature Campaign in this forum.

He won't be using their Internet anyway, so I doubt the IT guy can do anything about it.

Oh I kinda misunderstood that part. Well if he's going to use mobile internet and the mobile internet package he is paying anyways isn't enough and forces him to upgrade it just for mining then that upgrade's price will eat up his income from the mining considering that he wants to use small miners like the Antminers.

[ranochigo]

You can't mine and profit at library unless you can bring in a huge machine and not get noticed. They would chase you out for your ASIC or computer making too much noise.

[leannemckim46]

You can't mine and profit at library unless you can bring in a huge machine and not get noticed. They would chase you out for your ASIC or computer making too much noise.

I believe asic noise can be lowered by doing some simple modification, heat is the biggest issue..

[Divinespark]

That ship sailed for you a long time ago, mate
You are better served by getting a job, and using $ to buy bitcoins

[Testing123]

I live near a university that has a library where anyone can just enter and plug in their laptop.

However, since I'm not a student there, I don't have access to their free Internet. Now, I know that you need to be connected to the Internet in order to mine so my question is, do you think it would be worthwhile to mine in my situation? Obviously I would need to use my mobile Internet to mine which is rather expensive per GB.

Because of this, I'm guessing that the profitability of mining would depend on the amount of bandwidth that mining consumes, correct?

The library is open from about 6 o'clock morning to just before midnight, so that would be roughly 15-18 hours of non-stop mining.

The miner would have to be quiet too and not emit too much heat. A USB-powered miner or something a bit bigger but with passive cooling would be perfect.

Even if you have free electricity, I don't think you can get profit from mining with USB ASICs.
Just forget about mining yourself and buy some bitcoin directly.

[lynn_402]

Even with a decent ASIC, like the 1.3 Mh/s GAW fury, you'd still make less than 50¢ per day. It doesn't seem worthwhile to spend your day at the library just for that.

[polynesia]

Even with a decent ASIC, like the 1.3 Mh/s GAW fury, you'd still make less than 50¢ per day. It doesn't seem worthwhile to spend your day at the library just for that.

which probably wont be sufficient to cover your hardware costs....

[srt1234]

Get a real job. That's the only thing I can say.