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Topic: Mining with thin clients profitable? (Read 1173 times)

newbie
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April 04, 2014, 05:50:45 AM
#8
Okay, thanks for the answers everyone!

Mabey it will be better with somethinge like a raspberry pie and add USB ports and go for USB-errupters? (USB hub with its own power source ofc)

It would be more profitable, but you'd have to mine altcoins (most likely through a multipool) in order to reach ROI on block erupters. Mining isn't currently a particularly profitable business to get into without substantial capital, AFAIK.

However, if you're looking into mining to learn more about how bitcoin works (like me), a Raspberry Pi with a block erupter or two would be a good way to get started with ASICs.

Thank you for your answer!

Well, this seems really hard to make money through... I thought it would be as easy as just buying USB hubs with alot of erupters, join a pool and bitcoins will slowly but steadily roll in... I guess i was wrong :/
hero member
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Techwolf on #bitcoin and Reddit
April 03, 2014, 11:16:32 PM
#7
Okay, thanks for the answers everyone!

Mabey it will be better with somethinge like a raspberry pie and add USB ports and go for USB-errupters? (USB hub with its own power source ofc)

It would be more profitable, but you'd have to mine altcoins (most likely through a multipool) in order to reach ROI on block erupters. Mining isn't currently a particularly profitable business to get into without substantial capital, AFAIK.

However, if you're looking into mining to learn more about how bitcoin works (like me), a Raspberry Pi with a block erupter or two would be a good way to get started with ASICs.
newbie
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April 03, 2014, 07:04:51 PM
#6
Okay, thanks for the answers everyone!

Mabey it will be better with somethinge like a raspberry pie and add USB ports and go for USB-errupters? (USB hub with its own power source ofc)
hero member
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Techwolf on #bitcoin and Reddit
April 03, 2014, 06:30:53 PM
#5
Bitcoin mining on GPUs has almost zero return, though somewhat better with litecoin. The only real effect CPU mining on a server or thin clients would have is significant lag for users and increased power consumption on all of the devices.
legendary
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HoneybadgerOfMoney.com Weed4bitcoin.com
April 03, 2014, 06:25:21 PM
#4
On year mining with 1000 thin clients would probably earn you one satoshi in total.

  • spend X hours on your employers supercluster to build this
  • HuhHuh
  • Profit!

-ck
legendary
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Ruu \o/
April 03, 2014, 06:06:52 PM
#3
On year mining with 1000 thin clients would probably earn you one satoshi in total.
legendary
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HoneybadgerOfMoney.com Weed4bitcoin.com
April 03, 2014, 05:56:07 PM
#2
Hello, i'm really new to this mining thingy but I was just woundering; Can it be profitable to mine with only thin clients? Like if you make a big "cluster" of them?

If it works, will it be super slow?

Thanks in forehand Smiley

That is the same as mining with the server itself - highly miniscule time wasted activity, period.
newbie
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April 03, 2014, 05:51:13 PM
#1
Hello, i'm really new to this mining thingy but I was just woundering; Can it be profitable to mine with only thin clients? Like if you make a big "cluster" of them?

If it works, will it be super slow?

Thanks in forehand Smiley
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