My apologies if this has been asked and answered before..but I'm more then a bit confused..looking at the Hashnet site I see
$15.99/MH so using say a KNC Titan as an example 400mh that comes out to be $6396.00 usd....now folks say there is a
monthly FEE
can't seem to find such a monthly fee if it exists for Hashnet? So what is the monthly or other hidden fees.....per month ..if any
thanks just a link is fine if I missed it or just plain apply such a fee to the above hypothetical 400mh unit above and post results here
(there kinda has to be a monthly fee that is the only place I can see them making the $$$)
thanks
Searing
There is a daily fee $0.08 per MH/s. So for 400 MH/s you would be paying 0.08 * 400 * 31 (or 30) = $992 (or $960) per month.
The fee is well hidden:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.8407197OK just for my use here (I have a KNC Titan on order (no refunds) ok stop the booing already!...Anyway say 400mh at 1250 watts
and it cost me (I'm booing now) $10,131.80 w/shipping
well...hmmmm...well lets walk through this $992-$135 elec (at 0.15kwh where I'm at) is a savings of 860 at 31 days as an example
for the first month and that $135 elec per month by me doing it a home stays at that flat rate.
Going Further $15.99 * 400mh is $6396.00 cost on the Hashnet w/o hosting.....so lets say it is 1k first month and drops 20% a month
so $1000 to 800 to 640 to $512 to $409.60 to $327.68 ..so 6 month plan? so total of $3689.28 hosting add that to the $6396 for the
actual Hashnet MH purchase so total in for Hashnet on the above guess (6 month hosting) is $10085.28
So my costs for those same 6 months for the KNC titan including electric is $135*6 months = $810 plus the miner $10,131.80 is
my total for the at home at 0.15kwh equip again at home is $10941.8
Again as we knew already I have the worse deal on the KNC Titan. so... $10,941.80 minus 10,085.28 is a diff between Hashnet and a Titan 400mh
batch one pre-order of $856.52 more cost to me
BUT
I have a physical miner (that I can sell ...potentially someday to recoup most of this) ..I have a physical miner I can pick the pools I want (unlimited choice)
and or alts/combo or any other thing I may want to point the beast at...and of course it further depends on what kind of $$$ Hashnet will charge you month to month
in the 6 months (example above) of your Hashnet contract and of course if they really will give you 20% off costs as months go by or
more maybe ..or less maybe ...uncertain
Actually with 20/20 hindsight I should never have gotten the KNC Titan (esp with bitcoin and alts tanking NOW) but as of right now it don't
look like that great a deal either to do the HashNet ..my KNC Titan purchase was a hope/prayer/guess last March...in that Hashnet is NOW I can say it likely
is not that much better a deal then buying a Titan 1st batch for the prices listed above etc NOW at the orig price (kinda silly to do that imho)
We all probably should just buy coin if we are into alts or bitcoin or whatever..but would be hard imho at this point in time to get either
product the KNC Titans at their current price and expected pre-order ship date or any Hashnet in equiv MH NOW with hosting fees.
both choices seem pretty weak ...but anyway I feel better on being stuck with the Titan now....bit behind the curve..but not as far
back as I thought.with the proper sale (used) of the KNC Titan Physical miner I could even be ahead (not likely) but still..
(although with the Vaultminers being able to hash at the end of this month till shipping likely still 'screwed' from a different direction
)
so it goes .you make your bets .win some/lose some.. but we all knew their had to be a catch on HashNet the above seems to show it.
Searing