[geeks] Question: how to profit from a Web-connected server

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On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 07:46:04PM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:

> Here's a picture of my "mining rig", taken a couple of hours ago after I
> added two more ASIC sticks to the hub:
> 
> http://www.mrbill.net/mining.jpg

You really get into some interesting stuff!

> That's ~9.6Gh/sec of ASICs (and about $725 of hardware at current
> prices).  The USB sticks are 333Mh/sec each, and the black cube is a BFL
> Jalapeno (7.6Gh/sec) that I ordered nine months ago and was finally
> delivered on Monday.
> 
> I might make the equivalent of $10/day for the next couple of months
> before more waves of even faster ASIC hardware hit the market and make
> this stuff not worth the power it uses.

So is this stuff worth paying for and throwing away? Is there anything else
you can do with it after mining becomes more expensive than it's worth?