BackgroundAlready invested in traditional markets (stocks, real-estate, savings, bonds), I recently raised my interest in the cryptocurrencies.
I looked at differents aspects : blockchain theory, ICOs, bitcoin and altcoins, main currencies value and chart evolution, mining (DIY and cloud). I rapidly was excited by this new eldorado and the opportunities that could emerge.
To resume my main question was :
Should I buy/sell currencies or produce them?It seems that the currencies are at their hignest, can potentially continue their progression but you have to take position rapidly in order to buy and sell at the good moments.
It is something I am already used to with the stock market and therefore not so attractive anymore and also time consuming.
The other option is original because of the mine allegory.
Who did never dream to find a gold mine and exploit it?
Is cryptocurrency mining profitable?I began to produce altcoins with
minerGate on my MacBook Pro.
The app selects the most profitable altcoin (mostly with CryptoNight algorithm) to mine based on its hash rate and coin value : at this time it was Monero (XMR). My computer was hardly managing to mine at 100 H/s.
After one day of continous mining and maintaining the power of my Mac, here are the stats :
- 0.00727 XMR (equivalent to $0.3 at the time I made it)
- 0.96 kWh ( equivalent to $0.1)
- profit of $0.2 !!!
Wow it works, but it will take a lot of personal computers to make the difference.
The way to earn big money is to see at a bigger scale : increase the Hash rate while maintaining the costs low.
Cloud MiningSo I began to look at the well known cloud mining solutions :
Genesis Mining,
HashFlare,
ViaBTC,…
I eliminated rapidly bitcoin mining because of the low profitability and also the unknown duration of contracts.
I took a look at Genesis Mining (GM) and HashFlare (HF) offers with the only currency they have in common : Ethereum.
Both propose a duration limited contract with no additional fees (maintenance or electricity).
So I compared offers that generate the same amount of ETH (if difficulty is constant): 100 MH/s for 1 year (HF) and 50 MH/s for 2 years (GM) and computed the daily profitability (pd), ROI.
pd = ({daily generated coins}*{ETH value} / {daily cost}) - 1
Results :
- HF: pd = (0.0938 * $205.49)/(2200/365.25)-1= 220% ; ROI = 114 days, 251 pure profit days
- GM: pd = (0.0469 * $205.49)/(1450/730.5)-1= 386% ROI = 150 days, 580 pure profit days
Of course there is no guarantee that the ETH value will stay the same and that with the difficulty increasing you can generate the same amount of coins every day, but there is so much space for profit in these conditions and also the ETH has still a big potential.
Reminder : Never borrow to invest, nor invest money you can't afford to lose.