This is not very encouraging - Making 0.5% per day while losing 50% in less than a month sounds like a losing strategy.
While I've recently maintained that the smart move @ cex is more in the trading than mining, I came to a few theoretical conclusions:
as we see • the value of GHS goes up and down, but mostly down, so mining rewards are outweighed by the slow drop in GHS value
therefore: • a balance constantly split 50/50 between BTC and GHS will stay (approximately) stable regardless of GHS value shifts
therefore: • a bot doing just that in a cex account will retain the initial BTC investment, and any mining on top of that is pure profitIn theory, it's the "safe" way to mine. So here's a peek at the bot I built to test that theory, and wow was I right!
It's not ready for release, being only 2 days old, and I'd like to test it through much more dramatic GHS value fluctuations than we've had for the last few days before considering it reliable enough to be ready for release.
I called it
Librium. After the film Equilibrium. It seemed appropriate.
Except it won't shoot you in the face to maintain balance.I'll let
Librium do the talking in the screengrab. The pane on the left is an account that's mostly about hardware miners, and the right pane is an account that only holds GHS: no hardware, no referrals.
The thing that scares me about using tradebots is how they can make a loss a human could have avoided. It's hard to know what config to give your bot while you sleep. Librium will hopefully put an end to that - finally, because of cex's unique trading/mining nature, a tradebot can exist that's all about giving one's balance a sense of balance, making sure it doesn't slip away in value while you're not looking, and folding all those mining rewards back into the very balanced balance. It would be utterly, utterly pointless at any other exchange. @ cex, it's awesome!
I might be persuadable to let a small handful of Librium betas out into the wild soon for tech savvy users if those who want it
make a new cex account with my referral link in which to use it. That way I can still benefit from long hours of botcraft and not charge anything for it.
Donations would also make me enthusiastic to finish it, and under such circumstances, donators will of course get it first.