I mine because I already have a gaming pc that can do a bit of mining. It gave me my first Bitcoin and still gives me around 40-50$ a month at current price. So in my mind depends on the case.
If you only have to spend the money to pay for the extra electricity and you mine sure things and easy (no research), like mining for Nicehash, it's really a good idea. If you want to risk mining new coins to try to get lucky getting many coins early at a super cheap price, it's more risky and requires a lot of research... Middle ground would be mining in a pool but mining safe coins...
I was interested to try out mining to see how it works, as a curiosity but in terms of $$$ it makes little economical sense to mine at this stage unless your doing it on an industrial scale.
If you could afford to mine and hold everything you mined you could get the best of both worlds. But of course for most of us the best option is to just hold.
I think that mining is safer then buying because at the end of the day you can still sell your computer and get at least some money back. (This might not be the case with ant miners as they are not useful for anything else. )
Great question...mining and then holding
Holding is defo better! But the issue is when you go and hold you will end up changing/selling early as they are there! Mining is a whale game now.
I mine because I already have a gaming pc that can do a bit of mining. It gave me my first Bitcoin and still gives me around 40-50$ a month at current price. So in my mind depends on the case.
If you only have to spend the money to pay for the extra electricity and you mine sure things and easy (no research), like mining for Nicehash, it's really a good idea. If you want to risk mining new coins to try to get lucky getting many coins early at a super cheap price, it's more risky and requires a lot of research... Middle ground would be mining in a pool but mining safe coins...
=) Hope my 2 cents help.
Math is clear here... Holding!
I'm curious as to how profitable it would be to mine Litecoin; Bitcoin is past being feasible for me I think...
I was interested to try out mining to see how it works, as a curiosity but in terms of $$$ it makes little economical sense to mine at this stage unless your doing it on an industrial scale.
it seems that bitcoin will have agreat future
THE WORLD BEST NOW ...ILOVE IT !!
If you could afford to mine and hold everything you mined you could get the best of both worlds. But of course for most of us the best option is to just hold.
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Hi Louis.. Like your passion for crytocurrency...
Good work..
faster to buy and hold than mining it
I think that mining is safer then buying because at the end of the day you can still sell your computer and get at least some money back. (This might not be the case with ant miners as they are not useful for anything else. )
LT, it's about time to read mean comments again Bro.
Screw it...sell it all and buy bitcoin!!!!