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Topic: Questions about miners and profitability (Read 856 times)

member
Activity: 100
Merit: 10
August 27, 2014, 08:55:28 AM
#3
Hello, i am new to the forum and have very little mining experience .... i have seen some BFL equipment for sale in my city at 150 $ ([105$]22gh/s miner + [45$]5gh/s miner) ... is this a decent price ? will running these actually yield any profit or would they at least cover the price of electricity that they consume ? Also if they are not profitable for Btc is there any other SHA-256 coins that i could mine for with 27gh/s that would yield profit ?
Thank you

Dont buy anything from BFL, go with antminer, much cheaper and no delays.
DrG
legendary
Activity: 2086
Merit: 1035
August 27, 2014, 03:43:21 AM
#2
BFL gear is obsolete since it uses more electricity than it mines as BTC.  I sold 300GH/s of BFL gear last week for $50.  It should only be used for educational/hobby purposes from this point on unless somebody sells it for a cheap price like I did.

For the 2nd question - BTC is almost always the most profitable SHA-256 coin.  On rare occasion PPC and a couple other have popped up, but not in any recent memory.
newbie
Activity: 1
Merit: 0
August 27, 2014, 03:27:34 AM
#1
Hello, i am new to the forum and have very little mining experience .... i have seen some BFL equipment for sale in my city at 150 $ ([105$]22gh/s miner + [45$]5gh/s miner) ... is this a decent price ? will running these actually yield any profit or would they at least cover the price of electricity that they consume ? Also if they are not profitable for Btc is there any other SHA-256 coins that i could mine for with 27gh/s that would yield profit ?
Thank you
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