Easy, why not just feed in the cost from NiceHash to rent?
Massive fluctuation when new scrypt coins launch? Do you feel it is a good representative value?
It is a good idea to feed it in, perhaps we could take the average cost over different leasing providers, and also for some common and new rigs, then average it out?
Yeah, I think it's solid. Spikes won't be more than a few hours with how short mining is on some of those coins.
However, I agree if you could feed in another source:
LeaseRig.net has a ticker and is closer to your value:
Avg. For Last 20 rentals: 0.00103203 BTC/MH/day
Also:
www.miningrigrentals.comscryptery.com
Another way would be to determine the cost based on power rate at 0.082 + average hardware cost for that hash rate, averaged over X months (not sure what would be appropriate).
Nice response!
If somebody would like to buy a domain and host it, say 'miningcosts.com' or something, I would be happy to make the foundation of a website where people could view and add their hashing costs for each algorithm. It would be interesting to see, and also useful data.
Production cost is very important, if a currency strays too far above it too quickly we know what happens, it also stops people paying over the odds in 'pump and dumps'.
For Bitmark, it would improve the quality of data we receive and give, in this instance to miners/traders/investors, and most pertinently the original question, how to provide a fair average price for businesses/users/services to use on a daily basis. This one
User Price = (5 Day Average Production Cost + 3 Day Average Market Price) / 2
another discussion topic I was thinking about invoices, I saw a QR code on a bill last week...