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Topic: gpu bubble well and truly bursting - page 9. (Read 23737 times)

newbie
Activity: 36
Merit: 0
September 23, 2017, 06:30:50 AM
One mining rig in my living room keeps my whole house at 24 degrees C and costs about the same as having the central heating on.
I'll mine every winter even if I'm at a loss. This is the only time in my life that British weather has been an advantage 😁
member
Activity: 82
Merit: 13
September 23, 2017, 05:45:13 AM
The coming weeks will be quite interesting. It does not look like it right now, but if China really was to shut down exchanges permanently, this might be an interesting development for miners in general...
legendary
Activity: 1456
Merit: 1014
September 23, 2017, 05:19:55 AM
i think that with BTC and also the Altcoins declining the GPU Bubble will burst as soon as the people are not making money with it anymore, after that the market will be flooded with GPU, but could also be the case that the majority of GPU was bought by big farms, in that case we will not see that many cards hit the market, since they will mine anyway.
(They paid less for the GPU and have ridic low rates for the Power)
legendary
Activity: 3276
Merit: 2442
September 22, 2017, 01:21:18 PM
Unless you can build your own mining hardware, mining is pointless.

If there are people who mine, you don't need to mine at all. They'll be competing each other to death till they earn zero profit. That's not good.

The only ones who make real money by mining are the ones who build the hardware.

If you believe crypto has a future, just buy it. Mining is only for hobbyists/geeks now.

There is also a special occasion where you might have more than 10 PC's around with powerful CPU's. Then you might wanna run CPU miners on those PC's and mine monero as side jobs.

CPU mining > GPU mining
newbie
Activity: 38
Merit: 0
September 22, 2017, 12:10:44 PM
Given the current rumblings out of China, we might be looking at THE END of the profitability bubble by the end of the month, or more likely sometime next month.

http://fortune.com/2017/09/11/bitcoin-price-value-usd-china/ among other reports.



That could be true. The price of the bitcoin is dropping a lot now. It is less profitable to mine now.

I notice the bitcoin price drop has slowed down. It is consolidating now.
newbie
Activity: 69
Merit: 0
September 14, 2017, 08:12:55 AM
Given the current rumblings out of China, we might be looking at THE END of the profitability bubble by the end of the month, or more likely sometime next month.

http://fortune.com/2017/09/11/bitcoin-price-value-usd-china/ among other reports.



That could be true. The price of the bitcoin is dropping a lot now. It is less profitable to mine now.
legendary
Activity: 1498
Merit: 1030
September 13, 2017, 03:38:48 PM
Given the current rumblings out of China, we might be looking at THE END of the profitability bubble by the end of the month, or more likely sometime next month.

http://fortune.com/2017/09/11/bitcoin-price-value-usd-china/ among other reports.

legendary
Activity: 2366
Merit: 1408
September 13, 2017, 03:08:12 PM
I guess the way things are going, soon many miners will start committing suicide, I love the prospect of it. I mean right now, the whole world might be mining and dumping altcoins to pay their loans, soon only few miners will be left mining with $0.05 per card a day, like used to be hehe

Yes, you are right, I already commited suicide, twice, can you believe?
member
Activity: 76
Merit: 10
ALTCOM wallet: AYGDb1Zwf3vfs2xC4D1G63wwy9RLU5Kb5r
September 13, 2017, 02:48:34 PM
It will bounce back better and stronger than ever. Just need patience
member
Activity: 74
Merit: 10
September 13, 2017, 12:52:24 PM
I guess the way things are going, soon many miners will start committing suicide, I love the prospect of it. I mean right now, the whole world might be mining and dumping altcoins to pay their loans, soon only few miners will be left mining with $0.05 per card a day, like used to be hehe

It is still profitable to mine. However, the profitability is much lower.
sr. member
Activity: 2142
Merit: 353
Xtreme Monster
September 10, 2017, 01:32:42 AM
I guess the way things are going, soon many miners will start committing suicide, I love the prospect of it. I mean right now, the whole world might be mining and dumping altcoins to pay their loans, soon only few miners will be left mining with $0.05 per card a day, like used to be hehe
legendary
Activity: 1176
Merit: 1015
September 10, 2017, 01:28:43 AM
What was supposedly high profit in the Feb-Apr 2016 timeframe, even in the same BALLPARK as the last 4 months?

Eth starting it's first run which ended to dao + dcr launch 2/2016. 20MH on eth/ 2GH on dcr made you an easy 5€/ day. Cards that didn't scale well on eth (980, 980ti) made better profits on dcr.

Also eth launch 8/2015 was really good (tahiti 10€/ day) but price tanked quite soon.

sr. member
Activity: 2142
Merit: 353
Xtreme Monster
September 09, 2017, 11:04:56 PM
X11 was always a scam and still is.
legendary
Activity: 1498
Merit: 1030
September 09, 2017, 10:26:52 PM
X11 WAS profitable - both during most of the Litecoin craze days (though usually not AS profitable as Litecoin) and for a few weeks to a month after Litecoin collapsed, as folks scrambled for something else to mine and eventually swamped the few other options or ended up dropping out of GPU mining entirely.

 It was still profitable after that - for folks with VERY CHEAP of free electric, but it quickly hit "breakeven" to a hair worse for those of us that were paying 8c/kwh or more.

legendary
Activity: 3808
Merit: 1723
September 09, 2017, 03:18:21 PM
Yes, you CAN earn good money today with crazy-high electric rates - but that is NOT the norm, and has only been the case TWICE in the history of Cryptocoin to date.

10-12/2013
2-4/2016
3-6/2017

:-)

Also

4/2013

 What was supposedly high profit in the Feb-Apr 2016 timeframe, even in the same BALLPARK as the last 4 months?
 Ditto April 2014 - X11 profitability had already collapsed by then and Scrypt collapsed a month or two before X11 did (to be fair that 10-12 2013 should be more like 10/2013-2/2014 approximately)




X11 was never profitable. I think somewhere around 4/2014 it started to become very very unprofitable for the people with 7950/7970.
legendary
Activity: 1498
Merit: 1030
September 09, 2017, 02:55:33 PM
Yes, you CAN earn good money today with crazy-high electric rates - but that is NOT the norm, and has only been the case TWICE in the history of Cryptocoin to date.

10-12/2013
2-4/2016
3-6/2017

:-)

Also

4/2013

 What was supposedly high profit in the Feb-Apr 2016 timeframe, even in the same BALLPARK as the last 4 months?
 Ditto April 2014 - X11 profitability had already collapsed by then and Scrypt collapsed a month or two before X11 did (to be fair that 10-12 2013 should be more like 10/2013-2/2014 approximately)


legendary
Activity: 3808
Merit: 1723
September 09, 2017, 02:49:35 PM
Well for anyone mining ZEC

It looks like the daily profitability is exactly what it was back in March 2017, right before the bubble.

Been a crazy ride all the way up to like $5/day with a 280X and back down to ~$1/day.


ETH pretty soon will also reach the March 2017 profitability levels in a few weeks.

newbie
Activity: 64
Merit: 0
September 09, 2017, 04:44:13 AM
Yes, you CAN earn good money today with crazy-high electric rates - but that is NOT the norm, and has only been the case TWICE in the history of Cryptocoin to date.

10-12/2013
2-4/2016
3-6/2017

:-)

Also

4/2013

For the People in Western Europe, if the difficulty of ETH doubles, it is break even to mine.
legendary
Activity: 3808
Merit: 1723
September 08, 2017, 05:35:34 PM
Yes, you CAN earn good money today with crazy-high electric rates - but that is NOT the norm, and has only been the case TWICE in the history of Cryptocoin to date.

10-12/2013
2-4/2016
3-6/2017

:-)

Also

4/2013
legendary
Activity: 1176
Merit: 1015
September 08, 2017, 03:52:31 PM
Most of the time I have been selling too cheap.

See that is the problem and today is no different

I have learned my lesson, that's why I'm only hobby miner nowadays.

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