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WooHoo!
No I didn't! Just the small USB connected thing. I think it was 275 or
something like that.
Entry level 5 GH/s unit is priced $275 USD.
Calculator sites say this can crank out $265.82 per month at current
price and difficulty.
Naturally will be less by the time it gets through first month. And if
and when the bear market returns in earnest, growth in difficulty /
competition for blocks may slow as a result, but will be a lagging,
especially with efficient ASICs like these still being profitable under
such conditions.
If the plan is still to donate this to the the space, one hacker project
would be to write code to dynamically hop between between bitcoin and
other sha256 coins as profitability in each jumps around
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/List_of_alternative_cryptocurrencies
(though they tend to track each other fairly well I'm told, and this
makes sense)
I still say, if it's a freebie, lets freaking solo mine and have an
amazing block party if we find a block and just sad faces and
electricity bills if we don't.
Odds of finding a block in the next year assuming constant difficulty
(wrong assumption obviously) are...
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