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Topic: Good Bye Mining, See you at 10$ and Amd 7000 (Read 5492 times)

hero member
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Your Minion
October 11, 2011, 02:29:06 AM
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WELL FOLKS, as of this evening I'm shutting down my miners. At $4, with the current difficulty + electricity ($0.091) my monthly "profit" is at ~$30......  Shocked

If I want to speculate, I'll just buy the bitcoins with fiat, because then they'd be cheaper than mining them. Perhaps with the next difficulty drop, I'll turn it back on.. but unless price goes up, I think I'm going dark for a bit.

Well for me, If my miners stop "breaking even" I still get Super Extremetly Inexpensive Heating. Like. $5/mo to heat my 10room house

What the crap do you do with a 10 room house?

Those with more capital make more capital. Welcome to capitalism.
legendary
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WELL FOLKS, as of this evening I'm shutting down my miners. At $4, with the current difficulty + electricity ($0.091) my monthly "profit" is at ~$30......  Shocked

If I want to speculate, I'll just buy the bitcoins with fiat, because then they'd be cheaper than mining them. Perhaps with the next difficulty drop, I'll turn it back on.. but unless price goes up, I think I'm going dark for a bit.

Well for me, If my miners stop "breaking even" I still get Super Extremetly Inexpensive Heating. Like. $5/mo to heat my 10room house

What the crap do you do with a 10 room house?

Brothel?HuhHuhHuhHuh Grin
hero member
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WELL FOLKS, as of this evening I'm shutting down my miners. At $4, with the current difficulty + electricity ($0.091) my monthly "profit" is at ~$30......  Shocked

If I want to speculate, I'll just buy the bitcoins with fiat, because then they'd be cheaper than mining them. Perhaps with the next difficulty drop, I'll turn it back on.. but unless price goes up, I think I'm going dark for a bit.

Well for me, If my miners stop "breaking even" I still get Super Extremetly Inexpensive Heating. Like. $5/mo to heat my 10room house

What the crap do you do with a 10 room house?
legendary
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Okey Dokey Lokey
WELL FOLKS, as of this evening I'm shutting down my miners. At $4, with the current difficulty + electricity ($0.091) my monthly "profit" is at ~$30......  Shocked

If I want to speculate, I'll just buy the bitcoins with fiat, because then they'd be cheaper than mining them. Perhaps with the next difficulty drop, I'll turn it back on.. but unless price goes up, I think I'm going dark for a bit.

Well for me, If my miners stop "breaking even" I still get Super Extremetly Inexpensive Heating. Like. $5/mo to heat my 10room house
hero member
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WELL FOLKS, as of this evening I'm shutting down my miners. At $4, with the current difficulty + electricity ($0.091) my monthly "profit" is at ~$30......  Shocked

If I want to speculate, I'll just buy the bitcoins with fiat, because then they'd be cheaper than mining them. Perhaps with the next difficulty drop, I'll turn it back on.. but unless price goes up, I think I'm going dark for a bit.
hero member
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At $3.50 I'm shutting down my rigs. Basically it'll cost me less money to buy 1 BTC per day than to mine it.
legendary
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Closed out my last rig today, ended up profitabe with some great memories so net win =)

Final numbers are 440 BTC profit, had 5.2 ghash with 5000 invested.

I'm somewhat with ya,I'll keep 1 rig running ,as I have no other use for it & it's only $20 month to run.

legendary
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Okey Dokey Lokey

Aside from that, I feel confident that the only ones mining right now are:
People that dont pay thier own elecbill
People with a large mining Farm
People who just dont want to hit Off, on their comps for the night, when they could instead hit ON on thier miners

Hell 15/7 i run at -f250, And at night i swap to -f8

Deepbit is less than 20% off of its highs.  Are you positive 80% of the mining community fits into your 4 categories?

May I present an alternative.  My power rate is 4.6 cents/kwhr.  My 2x overclocked, undervolted 5830 rig pulls 380 watts from the wall. With all the distribution fees I am at 6 c/kwhr, or 400x24/1000*.06 = 60 cents a day, or $1.80 a bitcoin.  Let's call it $20 a month to generate a bit over 8 coins, which are worth $40.  This is loosely confirmed by my power bill which is only a hair higher than same time last year (although temperatures differ by 2 degrees).

Hardware was paid off after 6-7 days in July, and being 5830s it's not very valuable now.  So even $20/month after power costs beats $0, considering it's completely effort free money.   If this persists for another 10 months it's another free video card.

now im <55% sure
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Aside from that, I feel confident that the only ones mining right now are:
People that dont pay thier own elecbill
People with a large mining Farm
People who just dont want to hit Off, on their comps for the night, when they could instead hit ON on thier miners

Hell 15/7 i run at -f250, And at night i swap to -f8

Deepbit is less than 20% off of its highs.  Are you positive 80% of the mining community fits into your 4 categories?

May I present an alternative.  My power rate is 4.6 cents/kwhr.  My 2x overclocked, undervolted 5830 rig pulls 380 watts from the wall. With all the distribution fees I am at 6 c/kwhr, or 400x24/1000*.06 = 60 cents a day, or $1.80 a bitcoin.  Let's call it $20 a month to generate a bit over 8 coins, which are worth $40.  This is loosely confirmed by my power bill which is only a hair higher than same time last year (although temperatures differ by 2 degrees).

Hardware was paid off after 6-7 days in July, and being 5830s it's not very valuable now.  So even $20/month after power costs beats $0, considering it's completely effort free money.   If this persists for another 10 months it's another free video card.
legendary
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Okey Dokey Lokey
I don't know; I think some people mention it as if they get "free electricity" due to their own cunning, intelligence, or courage. It's ridiculous when you think about it.

Either they live with mom & dad, they're renting, or they happen to be in college.

They half imply that they're somehow more awesome because they had enough confidence in themselves to go ahead and call the electric company and insist on being switched to the "free plan", which most of us have insufficient manhood to do  Cheesy




I can say i have free energy, I bought soloar panels, Then the panels payed themselves off, Now the sun is giving me free energy!

Lol yes? no?

Aside from that, I feel confident that the only ones mining right now are:
People that dont pay thier own elecbill
People with a large mining Farm
People who just dont want to hit Off, on their comps for the night, when they could instead hit ON on thier miners

Hell 15/7 i run at -f250, And at night i swap to -f8
sr. member
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I don't know; I think some people mention it as if they get "free electricity" due to their own cunning, intelligence, or courage. It's ridiculous when you think about it.

Either they live with mom & dad, they're renting, or they happen to be in college.

They half imply that they're somehow more awesome because they had enough confidence in themselves to go ahead and call the electric company and insist on being switched to the "free plan", which most of us have insufficient manhood to do  Cheesy


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Free electricity has made it a lot easier staying with mining BTC.. if it wasnt for that I am sure a lot more people would be joining ya.

Unless you have power generating devices, electricity is never free. Someone pays for it somewhere. Just saying Wink

I think people need to start qualifying what they are saying, even though for most of us the implication is obvious, free to the miner.

full member
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Free electricity has made it a lot easier staying with mining BTC.. if it wasnt for that I am sure a lot more people would be joining ya.

Unless you have power generating devices, electricity is never free. Someone pays for it somewhere. Just saying Wink
hero member
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You are still mining at 560.9mhash at deepbit Smiley
legendary
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Bitcoin calls me an Orphan
Free electricity has made it a lot easier staying with mining BTC.. if it wasnt for that I am sure a lot more people would be joining ya.
legendary
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Okey Dokey Lokey
I mined for about a week on my gaming pc (single 6950) before I realized I wasn't making any money at current prices, at that point I bought $200 worth of bitcoins, exchanged half of them to i0coins, and woke up today to realize that investment lost half its value in less than 24 hours.  Fun times, but nothing to do right now except tough it out, leave my money in there, and hope things turn around.  Oh, and buy more cheap i0coins

EDIT: I might buy your 6990 for a reasonable price when the 7000s come out.  I am more interested in gaming than mining, and for that it will be fine.

Indeed, and my target market is majority gamers rather than miners
hero member
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I mined for about a week on my gaming pc (single 6950) before I realized I wasn't making any money at current prices, at that point I bought $200 worth of bitcoins, exchanged half of them to i0coins, and woke up today to realize that investment lost half its value in less than 24 hours.  Fun times, but nothing to do right now except tough it out, leave my money in there, and hope things turn around.  Oh, and buy more cheap i0coins

EDIT: I might buy your 6990 for a reasonable price when the 7000s come out.  I am more interested in gaming than mining, and for that it will be fine.

lol forks...what were you expecting
newbie
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I mined for about a week on my gaming pc (single 6950) before I realized I wasn't making any money at current prices, at that point I bought $200 worth of bitcoins, exchanged half of them to i0coins, and woke up today to realize that investment lost half its value in less than 24 hours.  Fun times, but nothing to do right now except tough it out, leave my money in there, and hope things turn around.  Oh, and buy more cheap i0coins

EDIT: I might buy your 6990 for a reasonable price when the 7000s come out.  I am more interested in gaming than mining, and for that it will be fine.
legendary
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Okey Dokey Lokey
As soon as the 7000's Actually "hit the market" It's gonna be SOOO hard to sell a 6990...

Anyone wanna buy a 6990 when the 7000series comes out? Lemme know.

I plan to sell my MSI6990 413mhash/core@925core once the 7000's come out, So. When they come out, PM me, And i'll most likely sell you my 6990
hero member
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September 30, 2011, 08:15:00 PM
#10
Nice to see someone in the green with bitcoin mining and hope to see you soon!  Sure hope bitcoin will be $10 soon enough
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