My best GPU is currently an R9 270x 2GB, I suspect that card has had its day in all honesty, but if you know better please let me know :)
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My best GPU is currently an R9 270x 2GB, I suspect that card has had its day in all honesty, but if you know better please let me know :)
I think I'm earning $1 a day with an older card mining Zcoin if I have my sums right, and that's at 30c/kWh. The sudden ascension in prices has made mining profitable for now.
https://zcash.flypool.org/miners/t1W1pBsaXuSoKddGuLbPkotprsz5awAsVPH
Thank you very much, i shall certainly look into it further :)
I'd be interested to hear how you go :)
Well i threw the R9 270 into an old machine and pointed it at nicehash, seems to be earning 60k - 70k sat per day if i run it constantly, just waiting on the batteries topping off before i move it over to the solar system as it has to be using less power than the antminer s3 uses :)
Great :)
I've not heard of nice hash before, looks interesting.
Not sure what SAT is either as Google won't tell me. I've bought another one card on eBay so will see how nice hash works when it arrives.
Will it earn more than your antminer? I had a prospero x1 but it was blown up in a storm so I'm out of mining Bitcoin.
Cheers, Mike.
haha nicehash is basically a miner hiring site, you point your rig at their service and they hire it out and you get paid in bitcoin or fractions of which we call satoshi (sat) after they take a fee of course. As for earning more than the antminer, ohh yes 3x the mining income on 2 thirds of the electricity too so thats always a bonus.
Prospero x1 i still have a pile of those laying around, these days they are only really good as heaters im afraid. curious as to which card you bought though, decent cards have all been snapped up :/
AAh OK re Nicehash. Yeah I've had a play with it since your message. I was mucking around with an old Sony Vaio AIO PC with Radeon graphics - gets about 6 hashes a second. See Sony at https://zcash.flypool.org/miners/t1W1pBsaXuSoKddGuLbPkotprsz5awAsVPH
I have two full time miners at the moment
I have a third card on the way from eBay - a Radeon HD 7850. Not sure what I'll get it to do yet.
I'm actually mining for heat and fun rather than making much money - I'm in a cold climate where we get down to freezing many nights over winter with tops 7-14 degrees c; so the waste heat is useful.
Re the Prospero X1 - would you be interested in selling one? I enjoyed having it as a novelty item up and running, and was sad when it got fried. I still have my old BFL 5GHz miner which also died.
PS - Great idea with the LiIon battery packs, glad they're all fused to 3A since they seem to be in parallel - there's a heap of potential current there if one shorted internally. I'd still be nervous having them near or in my house though since they can be unstable.