Would this be wise? My college life (no I DO NOT LIVE IN A DORM)

[psknives]

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gfx is based on how much money i get, 1.8 btc is depended on gfx with difficulty in consideration.

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[ribuck]

(a)  I don't see an acknowledgement that the generation difficulty will increase greatly during that time, and that your projection relies on speculating that the BTC price will go up proportionally.

(b) I don't see the price of electricity in there. Oh, you get free electricity in your college dorm. For 60 computers?

(c) If you live in a hot place, even one mining PC will make the room too hot in summer.

[clonedone]

thats a little risky.
i think if you dont get your mining rigs before this winter, it might not be as profitable anymore.
you didnt calculate electricity, im guessing your not going to be paying for it? i was thinkging of dorming next semester and doing that but im not sleeping in a room with a mining rig lol.
besides, if you wanna really invest, atleast get 5970 or 6990s, they will make u more btc.
your life will be horrible stressful monitoring 10 - 60 computers, especially if ur in college.

also with 2 computers running two 6990s each is equivelent to ur 9 pc setups @$1600 to $2000 a month

and yeah i hopeyou did the calculations with double the difficulty we see now just to be on the safe side

[psknives]

(a)  I don't see an acknowledgement that the generation difficulty will increase greatly during that time, and that your projection relies on speculating that the BTC price will go up proportionally.

(b) I don't see the price of electricity in there. Oh, you get free electricity in your college dorm. For 60 computers?

(c) If you live in a hot place, even one mining PC will make the room too hot in summer.

A) Well I am speculating that I will be making $3.75 per btc and the difficulty will increase and your right. The difficulty will increase but I highly doubt Ill go from 1.8 btc to 1.4 btc in 1 year with the same hash cracking rates.

B) I have an idea for it already, and no I don't live in a college dorm. Ill be getting some space for it don't worry about it.

C) The storage area will be cold as the winter.

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@clonedone your right, i think ill add the new data to see how much profit ill be getting.

[vuce]

1.8 btc per day? This sounds a bit low for a 5870.

You're correct, it will not go from 1.8 to 1.4 in a year. It will go from 1.8 to 1.08 in 10 hours.

Anyway, I think you would lose a lot of money doing this.

[m4rkiz]

keep in mind that price may or may not rise with difficulty increases, no one can predict either price of btc or difficulty at the end of this year, so you can't assume 1.8 daily or fixed 3.75 price

and unless you have some proper space to keep those pcs that would be a problem, noise for one, and count every 5870 as 0.3kWh heater... with 10 of them it is no different than having 3kWh heater running 24/7...

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but I highly doubt Ill go from 1.8 btc to 1.4 btc in 1 year with the same hash cracking rates.

you can expect 45% increase in difficulty just today, who knows what will happen in 2 weeks not to mention 2 months or more

[ploum]

Short and simple: you are applying linear interpolations to a bunch of highly non-linear stuffs.

Which makes your prediction as reliable as a pure random guess.

[psknives]

keep in mind that price may or may not rise with difficulty increases, no one can predict either price of btc or difficulty at the end of this year, so you can't assume 1.8 daily or fixed 3.75 price

and unless you have some proper space to keep those pcs that would be a problem, noise for one, and count every 5870 as 0.3kWh heater... with 10 of them it is no different than having 3kWh heater running 24/7...

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but I highly doubt Ill go from 1.8 btc to 1.4 btc in 1 year with the same hash cracking rates.

you can expect 45% increase in difficulty just today, who knows what will happen in 2 weeks not to mention 2 months or more

Don't worry about storage too much, and I expect some difficulty. But nothing too radical.

[eof]

I expect some difficulty. But nothing too radical.

The point is that difficulty will be jumping more in the next jump, happening *today* than you predict it will in a year.

[keybaud]

Also, don't forget to take humidity into account, if you're going to put them into a cold room. A PC full of condensation won't help your MH/s.

[JJG]

As mentioned before, your difficulty estimates are way, way off. Difficulty will jump over 42% in a matter of hours, and that's after only ~10 days at the current difficulty.

Your note suggests that you don't have difficulty rising very quickly because you believe it will be offset by purchases of faster cards. You're being a bit optimistic here, as the current 'GPU to have' for the bitcoin game came out in 2009.

But the absolute biggest indication that your model isn't realistic should be this: The barrier to entry for mining bitcoin is low relative to other investments or business ventures. You don't have to get a business license, find investors, etc. You just take a computer, load a generic program, and hit go. This doesn't take special knowledge, other than the knowledge that bitcoin mining exists.

In other words: If you can do something on a shoestring budget in your basement without actually even working for it, then so can almost every other hardware enthusiast on the internet. And as they discover bitcoin mining, they certainly will try. And this will rapidly drive the absolute profitability in to the ground.

[Sukrim]

Difficulty increases (as the hashrate increases) by 2% per DAY, not per month currently.

[gmaxwell]

In other words: If you can do something on a shoestring budget in your basement without actually even working for it, then so can almost every other hardware enthusiast on the internet. And as they discover bitcoin mining, they certainly will try. And this will rapidly drive the absolute profitability in to the ground.

Moreover... they'll make the same kind of crap analysis we've seen from many people here (difficulty increasing linearly 2% per month‽‽ How can you read enough to know about difficulty an then completely miss its growth like that?) and they'll keep piling into it even when it's _not_ profitable for them.

[Fiyasko]

1.8 btc per day? This sounds a bit low for a 5870.

You're correct, it will not go from 1.8 to 1.4 in a year. It will go from 1.8 to 1.08 in 10 hours.

Anyway, I think you would lose a lot of money doing this.

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[MoonShadow]

In other words: If you can do something on a shoestring budget in your basement without actually even working for it, then so can almost every other hardware enthusiast on the internet. And as they discover bitcoin mining, they certainly will try. And this will rapidly drive the absolute profitability in to the ground.

Moreover... they'll make the same kind of crap analysis we've seen from many people here (difficulty increasing linearly 2% per month‽‽ How can you read enough to know about difficulty an then completely miss its growth like that?) and they'll keep piling into it even when it's _not_ profitable for them.

You can't know who it's profitable for, or it isn't.  Mining was never profitable for me, and in general I don't, but I can envision conditions that I would mine for short terms.  There are many users who mine in their winter months because the cost of electric is either the main method of heat, and therefore running a miner is just a possible bonus to paying the heat bill; or they functionally have near free electric.

[gmaxwell]

You can't know who it's profitable for, or it isn't.  Mining was never profitable for me, and in general I don't, but I can envision conditions that I would mine for short terms.  There are many users who mine in their winter months because the cost of electric is either the main method of heat, and therefore running a miner is just a possible bonus to paying the heat bill; or they functionally have near free electric.

If heating is a non-trivial part of your electric expenses then you should be using gas (much power cost per therm than electric heating),  and/or an electric heat pump (greater than 100% "efficiency").   

Because of this, even with heating as a consideration mining will never be free, unless you can make some sucker pay for it for you.

[psknives]

You can't know who it's profitable for, or it isn't.  Mining was never profitable for me, and in general I don't, but I can envision conditions that I would mine for short terms.  There are many users who mine in their winter months because the cost of electric is either the main method of heat, and therefore running a miner is just a possible bonus to paying the heat bill; or they functionally have near free electric.

If heating is a non-trivial part of your electric expenses then you should be using gas (much power cost per therm than electric heating),  and/or an electric heat pump (greater than 100% "efficiency").   

Because of this, even with heating as a consideration mining will never be free, unless you can make some sucker pay for it for you.

Generally in GTA, Ontario, Canada you can find apartments around $800 to $1400 (depending on size and rooms) with free utilities (some not all).

[allinvain]

You can't know who it's profitable for, or it isn't.  Mining was never profitable for me, and in general I don't, but I can envision conditions that I would mine for short terms.  There are many users who mine in their winter months because the cost of electric is either the main method of heat, and therefore running a miner is just a possible bonus to paying the heat bill; or they functionally have near free electric.

If heating is a non-trivial part of your electric expenses then you should be using gas (much power cost per therm than electric heating),  and/or an electric heat pump (greater than 100% "efficiency").   

Because of this, even with heating as a consideration mining will never be free, unless you can make some sucker pay for it for you.

Generally in GTA, Ontario, Canada you can find apartments around $800 to $1400 (depending on size and rooms) with free utilities (some not all).

True (I'm from Ontario too) but do you really think that free utilities means unlimited utilities. I'm sure someone would notice if you start sucking 10's of kilowatt hours.

I thought about this a few weeks back and I think what may work is if you have a lot of friends who rent places with so called "free utilities" you may be able to convince them to allow you to place one of your mining rigs at their place (reward them somehow for this). Spread these mining rigs across several apartments and you'd have a nice amount of hashing power without paying for electricity - ie free bitcoins. The moral downside is that the landlord is going to end up footing the bill :p lol

[Sukrim]

At these prices, I don't feel sorry for a landlord! 

I live nicely for half the price in western Europe!

[allinvain]

At these prices, I don't feel sorry for a landlord! 

I live nicely for half the price in western Europe!

Yep, real estate is way overpriced in the Toronto (aka GTA) area and as a result I'd say so are rents. If that landlord has the property already paid off (ie no mortgage) then that $800 is pure profit (minus expenses and other misc items) so our psknives's electricity usage may go unnoticed or maybe the landlord won't care all that much - at least not until the power bill approached the the multiple hundred dollar mark lol

I dunno, this is all pure speculation. Psknives if you have the desire to do this go for it, don't let anyone here tell you what to do even if ultimately you may end up with an unprofitable operation - at least this way you've done it your way and you learned by your own mistakes and noone can take the blame for your actions