I am just curious, what is the most profitable device to mine darkcoin at the moment?
Master NodeHow many DRK would I make per day ATM (just to get a feeling)... should be around 4-5 DRK, but I make that already by mining profitable SHA-256 coins and selling for DRK.
All this is fine and good, but I am really looking for a way to mine DRK directly.
Not with masternode, and not by selling my hashpower to someone for DRK in return.
xpool.ca currently doesn't mine several of the more profitable SHA256/DR coins because it doesn't have the hashpower to actually trap blocks. I've talked to the operator about it and there are some coins that would be quite a bit more profitable if there were more hashpower to justify chasing them. I'll be tossing another Neptune or two at it in the near future.
Right now, I average 60% of the entire pool's hashing power, so you can see that even 1.6TH/s could bump it up to more profitable coins, so by all means, come along. You'd probably get ~3 DRK/day.
You're not mining directly, but you are reducing a portion of the daily mined influx, and that is essentially the same thing when it comes to "supporting the network." Essentially, DRK ASICs already exist, you just can't see their hashpower in the grid, nor would it earn you anything if it did... You can also throw all the hashpower you want at a single pool and there's no change of 51% on the coin you actually care about...
While it has some obvious cons, it has pluses.
1) SHA256/DR isn't useful for mining any SHA256/DR coin directly anymore, so it extends the profitable life of your equipment. Neptunes are still being delivered, and mining BTC, they cannot possibly pay for themselves, much less the electricity they use. All other SHA256/DR mining ASICs are inferior to the Neptune, so they're in an even worse situation. My son runs my old BFL 30GH on free electrons... He may pull .1DRK/2days, but how much is .1BTC worth now? That machine hasn't been worth plugging in for almost a year now, but he gets a few DRK a month out of it, for now... What would you give for a handful of BTC that cost you $2.50ea 6 years ago?
2) Can't 51% the coin you actually care about. This actually happened to DRK when a multipool was flashing it with heavy hash power a while back... Sucks for the coins being cycled, but they're not DRK, therefore, do not matter.
3) Takes DRK out of the supply as it's mined. Not a lot, but some. DRK is still hammered to the 5DRK/block floor. Mining it directly is not anywhere close to profitable. Mining DRK is 100% futures/speculative, just like buying.
