Questions tagged [mining-profitability]
The economics of mining operations.
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Schedule programmatically ASIC mining
i'm looking to get into ASIC mining buying something around 1kW of power.
I have photovoltaic panels at home and during the day I have excessive power I can use to mine. I'm not set on a specific ...
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Theoretical "attack" when the difficulty decreases
After a halving, if price increase doesn't compensate the decrease of the reward for miners, some of them will become unprofitable, and they will stop mining.
With less miners, complexity decreases, ...
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Can you mine in daylight only?
Would it be possible to mine bitcoin only when the sun is up?
ie does the miner have to run continuously.
I have access to off grid solar that doesn't get used for anything else,
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Will the majority of miners quit mining next year if the price of bitcoin remains as it is today? Can it harm the network?
Below are some parameters that apply to the Bitcoin network today
Current price for producing one Bitcoin block is around ~$150,000.
Current price for one Bitcoin is ~$45,000.
Current reward for ...
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Calculating daily mined BTC
Hopefully an easy Question. I was updating some data tables and wanted to estimate monthly yield based on difficulty and known hashrate of the miner in this cash 110 TH/S.
I had it in my head the ...
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Is mining Bitcoin on costumers machine a financially viable plan?
I don't know if it is the right spot to post but my post has been removed from Reddit so...
I am currently exploring an idea on which I would like to gather your insights and opinions. The idea ...
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What is fee sniping?
What is a fee sniping attack? In several places I came across a mention of this type of attack, however, it is not clear to me what it represents.
They also say that today it is not so common and ...
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Why don't Bitcoin mining operations grow exponentially?
I went to Bitmain's home website one day when I saw the S21 Hyd. I ran calculations on that and found out it could pay for itself every 4 months (after power bills). So, how come Bitcoin mining ...
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What percentage of mined nonces fail to join the consensus blockchain?
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The PoW requires miners to find a number called a nonce (a number used just once), such that when the block content is hashed along with the nonce, the result is numerically smaller ...
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What is a lower bound for global bitcoin mining energy usage?
How can we estimate a lower bound for the electrical energy consumed by Bitcoin's Proof of Work (PoW) mechanism?
Obviously there is no hard bound, but there are some market laws at work and I think it'...
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Impact of mining technology on global bitcoin energy usage?
I often hear that improvements of mining technology (more hashes per kWh) would improve Bitcoin energy usage. Isn't that just a misunderstanding? Isn't the energy usage hardly dependent on the actual ...
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Stratum V2 incentives?
I am wondering about the prospects of resolving increasing mining pool centralization. What is the incentive for miners and pools to support Stratum V2?
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Is crypto validation and mining the same thing?
Recently I see many projects attract validators, does anybody have experience, is it profitable and how is it different from mining?
Appreciate your answers
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Is it possible to mine 1 btc in one day?
I am working in a company and my boss has ordered me to design a rig that can mine up to 1 BTC in a single day. I want to ask if is it possible. If it is then how much hash rate wil be required and ...
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Electricity bills to bitcoin earned [duplicate]
Im running an acer aspire 5 with an Intel i5 10th gen CPU with 16 gigs of memory. With only crypto tab open and mining Bitcoin, how much electricity is consumed if I run it for a week straight?
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