I think we might be in for a... disappointment.
As a guy posted in another thread, max total miner revenue per 24 hours is = 144 blocks * 12.5 block reward * $180/coin = $324,000 a day
Ethereum miner revenuer per 24 hours is like $6 million.
I don't think this will be a high flier unless the price goes up substantially.
Ethereum has 104 Th Nethash... that's 3.5 million GPU's @ 30Mh/s.
So it would be the same revenue as BTG if BTG attracts 1/18th the GPU's, i.e., 200,000 GPU's.
Hopefully it attracts a few more GPU's than that
On a sidenote, I've run the calcs... If I were to build another rig using the 6-slot Onda D1800 and filling them with Vega 56's, it'd still set me back over $4000 (Thanks to UK prices and VAT...). That's (assuming today's mining profitability) about 7 months to breakeven. 2.5 months if all my rigs work together towards that goal.
Conclusion: Still undecided.
If you have a VEGA rig -- you might as well sell your hash to NH/Cryptonite.
In whattomine, NH/Cryptonite is table leader for over a week now, ahead of ETH and Equihash.
For this BTG....
I am testing a strategy to put all my rigs pointed to Nicehash Equihash (for the first few weeks) because of --
- possibility of higher premium for miners/non-miners buying additional hash to quickly mine BTG because of low difficulty
- a lot of pools are getting ready for BTG and it may take awhile to see which pools are stable and cheapest to mine
