Estimated Next Difficulty: 74,079 (-1.70%)
Dont worry guys!
moron noobs that think they know it all and spread misinformation are why most people don't bother with these forums.
You will not break even on this miner. Even stealing mommy and daddy's electric, you won't get back the same amount of Bitcoin you spent on it. That you can count on. Happy mining
Using any calculator that uses a single coin is fairly inaccurate if you're interested in ROI, because why would you mine a single coin when there are several multi-pools which will pay better profits than any single coin. They acheive this through coin switching to the most profitable coin when the difficulty on the currently mined coin rises or price decreases.
The thing that really affects scrypt profitability is not LTC difficulty alone but the increase in total scrypt network hashrate across all 60+ scrypt coins as each new generation of miners comes on stream and older less efficient miners leave which affects diff across all those coins over time. When Litecoin Difficulty goes up because all the hashrate has flipped over to it, another coin's difficulty like Gamecoin is going down because the hashrate has dropped. Using a coin switching multipool allows you to mine the most profitable all the time.
As most of these pools pay out directly in BTC, its thier BTC per MH/s per day rate that you should be using for you ROI calcs. Something like 0.000032 BTC per MHs per Day.
The other factors not considered in ROI calcs are these:
Residual Value (ask a Titan or A2 owner, A4's and L3's will retain 30%-40% in 2 years).
Increase in coin value. I mine and only sell enough to pay for electricity, so I have BTC that I mined with my A2's in 2015 that have returned a 400% profit today. When do you want your ROI? Every week, or in 3 years time?
Sorry made all my real money in crypto mining LTC at 1.80 when everyone else left and then dumped at 3.80....what you get on multipools at least in the past does
not compare with above...now it looks like it is happening again with LTC thus....most times I pull the trigger on such it works out just fine....
also don't pay the 5% fee use litecoinpool (free with 3% bonus at 103%) and have titans multipools have that old pesky 2% error rate..admittedl that is not that big an issue
(maybe) with the L3 unlike my knc titans.
There are many ways to draw water from the same well...but we will see if it holds true in the future....
But yeah...raito LTC to BTC kinda sucked price wise etc..but ratio of LTC to BTC even at the pump was more or less the same between mainly 0.00407 or so and 0.004500 or so
IF LTC gets back above say 0.005 to btc and stays there I will stick with it..but again I move LTC to BTC in mass ..for those cashing out to $$$ multipool is probably the way
to go...but for just hording purposes (unless LTC goes all weird again) it works well when all the folk go to multipools..and ltc network decreases (ie more coin)
we will see ..no idea if you are correct or me..but the game I'm comfortable playing with (yet) (thou jitters this last month)
my real hope is IF we have bunch of machines hit LTC in difficulty it will act like a mess of Cheerleaders pumping LTC and crypto mining in general like in 2013..lots of noise
(hell I'll probably be multipooling as you state next week but a guy can dream)