No such thing as mining at a loss,my advice is always mine the most profitable coin ,not is $ but in how many pieces of coins you can get ,always watch the difficulty rate ,more coins more cash when bull run occurs
exactly , its beter to mine at break even or even a small loss than buy crytpo right now becase crypto prices are going down alot, at least mining you can hedge your bets with hardware if you have to exit and sell
you gpus when the next gpu shortage happens
What...its better to mine than buy cos prices are going down....
So the coins lose value if u buy or mine, so then why is it better to mine? Makes absolutely no sense.
Next gpu shortage....not going to happen
Gpu shortage was started by guys who made a huge amount of cash, but then got worse by all the clowns coming in too late trying to play catch up....they created a ridiculous market by insisting they could make huge profits, sucking in even more clowns desperate not to miss a boat that had already sailed....
There wont be the same situation again, cos by the time you come to sell your 1080tis they will be worth so little, you'll cry, and ASICS and FPGA will have totally dominated mining.
The next shortage will be FPGAs, and once they get established gpu mining will be dead forever.
As for mining at a loss....if the coin is established, with a good market, no point whatsover....all this bull about contributing to the chain etc, total crap, so long as 2 people globally have their wallets open (full wallets) and at least 1 of them is mining, any chain will operate. If its a POS chain, then only need wallets open. So think about it, take BTC for example, the worldwide mining could drop my 1000 fold and if done in a controlled manner the chain would still work perfectly....
The only time to mine at a loss, is when new coins first come out before they have a market (therefore no other way to acquire them) or really old coins that again have no market.
Mine the crap out of the, and then hope they get listed / relisted.
Any other mining at a loss is just crazy, and shows how little grasp on reality many miners acutally have
Look around, read the forums, "
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/50-gpu-mining-farm-earns-less-than-10-a-day-voskcoin-mining-farm-profits-5016425" miners all over the globe are slowly realising that its time to turn off.
The article I've linked to, was just the first I came across today, but to give you a perspective, they are earning $10 ish off 50 gpus (no idea how true any of this is ) but I am earning $8 a day of 1 Ryzen 1700, and total power 120Watt. That's nearly max that this particular coin can generate per day ( I have 88% of global hashrate ), so I cant throw another 10 rigs at it, and make $80 a day, but it sits quietly in the background generating $8 a day, every day ($7 profit).
So cut your losses, either buy, or if you want to mine,spend weeks researching, and go find / make your own coin, remember there are nearly 12,000 coins to choose from.
Just remember when u find that nugget, much as you want to, don't tell everyone, let people put in the effort and find it the way you did.