nice FUD, but you're incorrect @ burst being long gone. Just because people expect to get rich overnight, doesn't mean a coin is gone. HDD mining takes almost no power, unlike all of the power-hungry algorithms, and thus is almost always profitable, even if it doesn't make you a millionaire overnight (but what coin does? Do any of you mining with ASICS or GPUs even make much of anything after the power bill?)
not to mention, it has been proven to barely work the drives at all, never damaging any drive. It actually works them less than just normal HDD use. So mining can continue for a very long time.
ETH may never accomplish anything fully. BURST already accomplished a cross-chain transfer (
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4vYMJwBtRGLLVQ0OElQRzJackE/edit) with their Automated Transactions.
Not to mention, with the new GUI, it is now very easy for anyone to start mining.
So please, quit shilling for ETH, and stop slandering BURST.
edit: oh, did I mention that BURST did all of this with NO FUNDING? Yea.
I'm not shilling for Ethereum or trying to slander BURST, I was just mentioning that "
if you have a couple spare GPU's (Ethereum) might be worth looking into" and that I didn't think BURST was a very profitable coin to mine. Take a look at my post history, I've never mentioned Ethereum before either, I was just saying that I've heard Ethereum is a profitable coin to mine.
Also, I'm not sure how you figure BURST mining is profitable either.
According to this calculator, you'd be making about 0.011 BTC per
month if you used a 3 TB hard drive (so your initial cost would be ~ $85 USD, and that's a very conservative estimate as well). 0.011 BTC per month would barely cover the power cost of running an efficient BURST mining setup (let's say an RPi + HDD, that would take about 10 watts), but just for fun let's say that you aren't paying power costs. With an income of 0.011 BTC per month ($2.55 USD) it would take you 33 months to pay off your investment of just the hard drive. Keep in mind that this would be on a super efficient setup as well. If you pay power, and run the hard drive for BURST mining in a desktop, you wouldn't make any money because of power costs. A desktop would take ~ 40W (conservative estimate again), which would cost more than $2.55 USD to run for a month in most areas in North America. Please correct me if any of my numbers are off, but they should be fairly accurate.
It's great that BURST completed a cross-chain transfer, did everything without funding, and barely uses hard drives, etc, etc but I wasn't talking about what the coins accomplished, I was talking about
what coins are profitable for mining.