BTC/$ hit the 50% retracement of the recent top and bottom yesterday at 17:30 and is now back at the 480-ish lows for a re-test. If that breaks...hello 440! Thanks for all the memories... 
Topic: Most will never make a profit mining if BTC stays under $650 for long (Read 2507 times)
August 18, 2014, 08:12:22 AM
Happened exactly as predicted by using traditional chart analysis, I am myself surprised it still works (sometimes). If no big bounce off 440 = we are f....d!
August 17, 2014, 10:00:50 AM
It's called 'mining the miners'...pun intended.
Exact same thing in other areas where money floats around...like the Stock Market!
CNBC, Investment advisors, Brokerages...the list is very long. The bobbing head 'traders' on CNBC are almost comical...they never talk about their losses. Guess they never have any! Hahahahaaaaa.
They make money as long as YOU stay in the markets getting their commissions and kickbacks. If you make or lose is not their concern. But should you get lucky and make too much, then you have to deal with counter party risk...The Madoff's, the Corzine's, the EDF Man's of the world.
Exact same thing in other areas where money floats around...like the Stock Market!
CNBC, Investment advisors, Brokerages...the list is very long. The bobbing head 'traders' on CNBC are almost comical...they never talk about their losses. Guess they never have any! Hahahahaaaaa.
They make money as long as YOU stay in the markets getting their commissions and kickbacks. If you make or lose is not their concern. But should you get lucky and make too much, then you have to deal with counter party risk...The Madoff's, the Corzine's, the EDF Man's of the world.
August 16, 2014, 10:58:55 PM
As a straight up investment, the risk reward ratio of mining for profit is sooooooooooooooooooo far out of whack it isn't even funny.
The profit is in making, selling AND using the shovels, (the old trifecta)
If boiled down, you can look at mining as a gamble against difficulty increase. I don't believe many smart investors would be willing to take that bet right now.
The profit is in making, selling AND using the shovels, (the old trifecta)
If boiled down, you can look at mining as a gamble against difficulty increase. I don't believe many smart investors would be willing to take that bet right now.
August 16, 2014, 08:03:30 AM
Buying mining rig now is a bad idea as BTC is cheap, buy low sell high....
August 15, 2014, 02:42:13 PM
Now sub $500. Unfortunately I think we are headed down to major support in the $440 area. Hopefully there will be a big bounce then. If not I will be turning off my machines and see what happens....
August 15, 2014, 01:44:07 PM
I'm talking about the home user and bitcoin enthusiast who wants to actually acquire more bitcoin via mining.
Any home-sized mining rig today will generate zero blocks in a month. August 15, 2014, 06:49:39 AM
buy coins and hold.
August 15, 2014, 06:09:52 AM
just buy coins and mine for fun.
August 14, 2014, 04:25:17 PM
Common sense doesn't come into play since we're talking about investing - and most people don't know how to do that. I will give you that any mining company looking to make profits strictly in fiat does have to be concerned with the fiat price since they have to pay their investors back typically in fiat, as well as paying their operating overhead in fiat - yes that is true. But nobody on these forums cares about those guys since we are not them and they will do whatever they want regardless of what we say.
I'm talking about the home user and bitcoin enthusiast who wants to actually acquire more bitcoin via mining. In this case fiat price doesn't matter since the fiat is considered a spent asset - it's already been written off. The only expectation is to mine more BTC than the money would have bought. With the BTC dropping sub $500 today it makes a lot more sense to buy BTC than to mine for pretty much all miners. Of course if you already bought hardware nothing you can do but to mine.
The only people who care about fiat prices are the big farms. The little guys who want to see Bitcoin become widely accepted can sit and wait on our "little" investments.
I'm talking about the home user and bitcoin enthusiast who wants to actually acquire more bitcoin via mining. In this case fiat price doesn't matter since the fiat is considered a spent asset - it's already been written off. The only expectation is to mine more BTC than the money would have bought. With the BTC dropping sub $500 today it makes a lot more sense to buy BTC than to mine for pretty much all miners. Of course if you already bought hardware nothing you can do but to mine.
The only people who care about fiat prices are the big farms. The little guys who want to see Bitcoin become widely accepted can sit and wait on our "little" investments.
A good home miner would not ignore the fiat costs of running their hardware; they have operating expenses just like a big miner. The cost of electricity and the fiat price of bitcoin most definitely should factor into your buying decision.
A good home miner would be sitting on 500BTC from 2011 and 2012 and know that any mining done now is just for fun. Come on Mr Teal, I know where your stash is hehe.
Well it depends on what your purpose of mining is. I already have a lot of coins. I only mine to keep it distributed and help protect my investment - not to earn more coin. I find working my day job and buying the coins better for that at the moment.
For those mining for business rather than hobby I guess the nit picky penny counting matters - but then why mine when you have to watch the fiat price since mining takes 6-8 months to recoup investment. A good home miner would be a better home trader would they not?
August 14, 2014, 04:04:50 PM
Common sense doesn't come into play since we're talking about investing - and most people don't know how to do that. I will give you that any mining company looking to make profits strictly in fiat does have to be concerned with the fiat price since they have to pay their investors back typically in fiat, as well as paying their operating overhead in fiat - yes that is true. But nobody on these forums cares about those guys since we are not them and they will do whatever they want regardless of what we say.
I'm talking about the home user and bitcoin enthusiast who wants to actually acquire more bitcoin via mining. In this case fiat price doesn't matter since the fiat is considered a spent asset - it's already been written off. The only expectation is to mine more BTC than the money would have bought. With the BTC dropping sub $500 today it makes a lot more sense to buy BTC than to mine for pretty much all miners. Of course if you already bought hardware nothing you can do but to mine.
The only people who care about fiat prices are the big farms. The little guys who want to see Bitcoin become widely accepted can sit and wait on our "little" investments.
I'm talking about the home user and bitcoin enthusiast who wants to actually acquire more bitcoin via mining. In this case fiat price doesn't matter since the fiat is considered a spent asset - it's already been written off. The only expectation is to mine more BTC than the money would have bought. With the BTC dropping sub $500 today it makes a lot more sense to buy BTC than to mine for pretty much all miners. Of course if you already bought hardware nothing you can do but to mine.
The only people who care about fiat prices are the big farms. The little guys who want to see Bitcoin become widely accepted can sit and wait on our "little" investments.
A good home miner would not ignore the fiat costs of running their hardware; they have operating expenses just like a big miner. The cost of electricity and the fiat price of bitcoin most definitely should factor into your buying decision.
August 14, 2014, 03:47:48 PM
I think the whole concept of "Coins Invested - Coins Mined = ROI or Loss" that the other posters were trying to allude to, went over the OP's head.
Also, $10k isn't such a big investment for such an alpha 20 year big timer like yourself. Step it up big papa!
Also, $10k isn't such a big investment for such an alpha 20 year big timer like yourself. Step it up big papa!
Like I said, no money to be made mining at the moment, regards of how much you might sink into it...
No problemo, there are many pastures to graze on....
August 14, 2014, 03:44:57 PM
I think the whole concept of "Coins Invested - Coins Mined = ROI or Loss" that the other posters were trying to allude to, went over the OP's head.
Anytime you mention the fiat price or dollar value of Bitcoin, either investing, trading, or mining, you're doing it all wrong. Fact of the matter is, for the $10k investment a couple months ago you could've had 17 Bitcoins already. Using http://retrocalc.net/ and let's say conservatively 5TH/s(converting the Scrypt to equivalent power) shows you'd probably mined 9-10 BTC or so not figuring in variance. Break even shows never based on https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/calculator.
Basically, for someone that has 20 years + experience in the risk/trading field, it doesn't look like you did the necessary legwork calculating the risks with Bitcoin mining. Doesn't look like you factored in the high difficulty we're now, considered variance, use the right Bitcoin calculators, possibly invested in the wrong inefficient asics etc.
Only hope to recoup some of your losses, is to sell your equipment on eBay or here in the Hardware / Computer Hardware subforum for BTC's.
Good luck, either way.
Anytime you mention the fiat price or dollar value of Bitcoin, either investing, trading, or mining, you're doing it all wrong. Fact of the matter is, for the $10k investment a couple months ago you could've had 17 Bitcoins already. Using http://retrocalc.net/ and let's say conservatively 5TH/s(converting the Scrypt to equivalent power) shows you'd probably mined 9-10 BTC or so not figuring in variance. Break even shows never based on https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/calculator.
Basically, for someone that has 20 years + experience in the risk/trading field, it doesn't look like you did the necessary legwork calculating the risks with Bitcoin mining. Doesn't look like you factored in the high difficulty we're now, considered variance, use the right Bitcoin calculators, possibly invested in the wrong inefficient asics etc.
Only hope to recoup some of your losses, is to sell your equipment on eBay or here in the Hardware / Computer Hardware subforum for BTC's.
Good luck, either way.
OK buddy, you keep doing it your way and we do it ours (as we trade another 1000+ futures contracts today...). Some miners think they have it figured all out... good luck with that too.
PS And you really think that RetroCalc tell you what one 'actually' makes/made...hahaha. You just disqualified yourself totally. That's like guys who approach us on a daily basis with their
trading systems which have only been paper traded, not with an actual account. We do not even look at those.
Must've touched a nerve with you, if you're getting so defensive. Guess the truth hurts sometimes. ...
Also, $10k isn't such a big investment for such an alpha 20 year big timer like yourself. Step it up big papa!
August 14, 2014, 03:16:33 PM
I think the whole concept of "Coins Invested - Coins Mined = ROI or Loss" that the other posters were trying to allude to, went over the OP's head.
Anytime you mention the fiat price or dollar value of Bitcoin, either investing, trading, or mining, you're doing it all wrong. Fact of the matter is, for the $10k investment a couple months ago you could've had 17 Bitcoins already. Using http://retrocalc.net/ and let's say conservatively 5TH/s(converting the Scrypt to equivalent power) shows you'd probably mined 9-10 BTC or so not figuring in variance. Break even shows never based on https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/calculator.
Basically, for someone that has 20 years + experience in the risk/trading field, it doesn't look like you did the necessary legwork calculating the risks with Bitcoin mining. Doesn't look like you factored in the high difficulty we're now, considered variance, use the right Bitcoin calculators, possibly invested in the wrong inefficient asics etc.
Only hope to recoup some of your losses, is to sell your equipment on eBay or here in the Hardware / Computer Hardware subforum for BTC's.
Good luck, either way.
Anytime you mention the fiat price or dollar value of Bitcoin, either investing, trading, or mining, you're doing it all wrong. Fact of the matter is, for the $10k investment a couple months ago you could've had 17 Bitcoins already. Using http://retrocalc.net/ and let's say conservatively 5TH/s(converting the Scrypt to equivalent power) shows you'd probably mined 9-10 BTC or so not figuring in variance. Break even shows never based on https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/calculator.
Basically, for someone that has 20 years + experience in the risk/trading field, it doesn't look like you did the necessary legwork calculating the risks with Bitcoin mining. Doesn't look like you factored in the high difficulty we're now, considered variance, use the right Bitcoin calculators, possibly invested in the wrong inefficient asics etc.
Only hope to recoup some of your losses, is to sell your equipment on eBay or here in the Hardware / Computer Hardware subforum for BTC's.
Good luck, either way.
OK buddy, you keep doing it your way and we do it ours (as we trade another 1000+ futures contracts today...). Some miners think they have it figured all out... good luck with that too.
PS And you really think that RetroCalc tell you what one 'actually' makes/made...hahaha. You just disqualified yourself totally. That's like guys who approach us on a daily basis with their
trading systems which have only been paper traded, not with an actual account. We do not even look at those.
August 14, 2014, 02:49:23 PM
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The fiat price of Bitcoin really doesn't matter much.
I suggest you spend some time in the economics forum and speculation subthread.
Only newbies are looking to make more in fiat by mining.
If you think the price of bitcoin will raise so dont buy miners, buy bitcoins itself.. the point fo mining is that you will make more coins than if you just buy them, as someone said above me.
I suggest you spend some time in the economics forum and speculation subthread.
Only newbies are looking to make more in fiat by mining.
If you think the price of bitcoin will raise so dont buy miners, buy bitcoins itself.. the point fo mining is that you will make more coins than if you just buy them, as someone said above me.
Guys, thrown common sense overboard? Obviously most on the forums do not understand two very important issues... Risk and Money Management. I have 20 years experience in a algo trading outfit. Again, I am talking BTC mining as a business not a hobby / way to stick it to the man.
Those just taking their brand spanking new SP30 online right now are having a bad surprise...BTC around $500 and a big difficulty increase looming. Even at 7 cents per KWh no way to make money..
Common sense doesn't come into play since we're talking about investing - and most people don't know how to do that. I will give you that any mining company looking to make profits strictly in fiat does have to be concerned with the fiat price since they have to pay their investors back typically in fiat, as well as paying their operating overhead in fiat - yes that is true. But nobody on these forums cares about those guys since we are not them and they will do whatever they want regardless of what we say.
I'm talking about the home user and bitcoin enthusiast who wants to actually acquire more bitcoin via mining. In this case fiat price doesn't matter since the fiat is considered a spent asset - it's already been written off. The only expectation is to mine more BTC than the money would have bought. With the BTC dropping sub $500 today it makes a lot more sense to buy BTC than to mine for pretty much all miners. Of course if you already bought hardware nothing you can do but to mine.
The only people who care about fiat prices are the big farms. The little guys who want to see Bitcoin become widely accepted can sit and wait on our "little" investments.
August 14, 2014, 01:56:55 PM
I think the whole concept of "Coins Invested - Coins Mined = ROI or Loss" that the other posters were trying to allude to, went over the OP's head.
Anytime you mention the fiat price or dollar value of Bitcoin, either investing, trading, or mining, you're doing it all wrong. Fact of the matter is, for the $10k investment a couple months ago you could've had 17 Bitcoins already. Using http://retrocalc.net/ and let's say conservatively 5TH/s(converting the Scrypt to equivalent power) shows you'd probably mined 9-10 BTC or so not figuring in variance. Break even shows never based on https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/calculator.
Basically, for someone that has 20 years + experience in the risk/trading field, it doesn't look like you did the necessary legwork calculating the risks with Bitcoin mining. Doesn't look like you factored in the high difficulty we're now, considered variance, use the right Bitcoin calculators, possibly invested in the wrong inefficient asics etc.
Only hope to recoup some of your losses, is to sell your equipment on eBay or here in the Hardware / Computer Hardware subforum for BTC's.
Good luck, either way.
Anytime you mention the fiat price or dollar value of Bitcoin, either investing, trading, or mining, you're doing it all wrong. Fact of the matter is, for the $10k investment a couple months ago you could've had 17 Bitcoins already. Using http://retrocalc.net/ and let's say conservatively 5TH/s(converting the Scrypt to equivalent power) shows you'd probably mined 9-10 BTC or so not figuring in variance. Break even shows never based on https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/calculator.
Basically, for someone that has 20 years + experience in the risk/trading field, it doesn't look like you did the necessary legwork calculating the risks with Bitcoin mining. Doesn't look like you factored in the high difficulty we're now, considered variance, use the right Bitcoin calculators, possibly invested in the wrong inefficient asics etc.
Only hope to recoup some of your losses, is to sell your equipment on eBay or here in the Hardware / Computer Hardware subforum for BTC's.
Good luck, either way.
August 14, 2014, 09:09:39 AM
The price of btc is at $500 right now.
August 14, 2014, 08:14:19 AM
My question: Do these massive mining farms hedge against Bitcoin price drops somehow?
Since I am advising my fund to stay out of BTC mining for the moment I did not really look into this but that would be hard as you cannot buy or write BTC options and Scypt coins are too correlated.
August 14, 2014, 08:03:23 AM
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The fiat price of Bitcoin really doesn't matter much.
I suggest you spend some time in the economics forum and speculation subthread.
Only newbies are looking to make more in fiat by mining.
If you think the price of bitcoin will raise so dont buy miners, buy bitcoins itself.. the point fo mining is that you will make more coins than if you just buy them, as someone said above me.
I suggest you spend some time in the economics forum and speculation subthread.
Only newbies are looking to make more in fiat by mining.
If you think the price of bitcoin will raise so dont buy miners, buy bitcoins itself.. the point fo mining is that you will make more coins than if you just buy them, as someone said above me.
Guys, thrown common sense overboard? Obviously most on the forums do not understand two very important issues... Risk and Money Management. I have 20 years experience in a algo trading outfit. Again, I am talking BTC mining as a business not a hobby / way to stick it to the man.
Those just taking their brand spanking new SP30 online right now are having a bad surprise...BTC around $500 and a big difficulty increase looming. Even at 7 cents per KWh no way to make money..
August 14, 2014, 06:16:10 AM
My question: Do these massive mining farms hedge against Bitcoin price drops somehow?
August 14, 2014, 01:54:09 AM
yep. I've run a ton of calcs. 0.10/KWH does not work for now - if ever again.
So many people ordered so much mining capacity that the whole mining industry may go into negative ROI.
That's often happened in real-world mining and agriculture. Especially agriculture, which has a history of doing that.
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