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

[Phil Stracchino]

On 08/16/13 11:57, Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 08:21:26AM +0000, microcode at zoho.com wrote:
>>> 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?
> 
> That's the bad side about ASICs - unless something else can be done with
> double-SHA256 hashes, that's the only thing this hardware is good for.

The thing I can't help but wonder is, who is actually *making money*
from bitcoin mining?  Because I can't recall ever having talked to
anyone who claimed to be actually making a net profit at it.


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