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have the costs of mining payed off? or would you have not done it if you were given another chance 

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paid off for sure.

 

paid for most of my 770, bought some new speakers, gonna buy a sub next week

 

considering I bought my cards for like 320$ for the pair shortly after debut, the hardware has well paid for itself. 

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paid off for sure.

 

paid for most of my 770, bought some new speakers, gonna buy a sub next week

 

considering I bought my cards for like 320$ for the pair shortly after debut, the hardware has well paid for itself. 

what coin? 

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In terms of an investment, not really,I haven't made much considering the time spent and initial outlay.

However, it is an excuse to build a powerful rig and it is currently paying off for itself, it's nice getting graphics cards for free.

My Personal Rig - AMD 3970X | ASUS sTRX4-Pro | RTX 2080 Super | 64GB Corsair Vengeance Pro RGB DDR4 | CoolerMaster H500P Mesh

My Wife's Rig - AMD 3900X | MSI B450I Gaming | 5500 XT 4GB | 32GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4-3200 | Silverstone SG13 White

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What is "Mining"?

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

~Abraham Lincoln

In times when we are on the brink of destruction, war, and loosing ourselves, let's remember a basic fundamental element of love, forgiveness, and understanding; God bless!

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What is "Mining"?

bit coin mining not minecraft 

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Im about 50% payed off my 270 started 2 weeks ago

|Casual Rig| CPU: i5-6600k |MoBo: ROG Gene  |GPU: Asus 670 Direct CU2 |RAM: RipJaws 2400MHz 2x8GB DDR4 |Heatsink: H100i |Boot Drive: Samsung Evo SSD 240GB|Chassis:BitFenix Prodigy |Peripherals| Keyboard:DasKeyboard, Cherry MX Blue Switches,|Mouse: Corsair M40

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Well I've made $40 in two weeks with my rig, I didn't build it for mining and 24/7 usage for a month costs $15. So I would say it is worth it. That's just the money I've made from mining, not counting what I've made from trading.

My Rig :  Case: Cooler Master HAF X ,Motherboard: Gigabyte Z87X-UD3H,PSU: Seasonic SS-750KM3,Processor: Core I7 4770k (overclocked 4.7ghz),Cooler: Corsair H100i, GPU: EVGA GTX 780 with acx cooler, RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws 16gb DDR3 1600 (overclocked to 2000mhz), HDDS  Samsung 840 EVO 250 gb SSD , Western digital  2tb 7200 rpm 64mb cache, Old 1tb laptop drive I had , 320gb for os backup daily, 80gb external for weekly backups,Drives 2x Lg Blu Ray burner WH16MS40,MISC: Tp-Link dual band wireless card, Logitech g510s, Razer Deathadder 2013, Acer G236HLBbd 23" monitor, Old tv I had 23" for secondary monitor, old 32" samsung tv third monitor

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I'm still confused 

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

~Abraham Lincoln

In times when we are on the brink of destruction, war, and loosing ourselves, let's remember a basic fundamental element of love, forgiveness, and understanding; God bless!

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Yes, I made my money back from the initial investment many times over and still going.

Main rig: i7 3770K @ 4.54, Sapphire R9 290, Sabertooth Z77, 16 GB Mushkin Redline 2133, Lian Li PC-P50R, Seasonic 860xp Platinum, Kingston Hyper X 3K 240GB

freeNAS server: AMD Athlon II 170u 20W, 5 x 3TB WD Red in raid-z1 (12 TB)

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The guys who made this video were also a bit confused. 

 

Well they didn't do a full cost analysis but the part they did do is telling. Most crypto miners ignore some of the daily costs because its too hard to integrate in their cost analysis, you can't get free energy no matter the source there is an inherent cost to all energy no matter how green it is. Getting free energy from parents or rent included energy still has a cost that is often ignored, till the day comes where they have to pay it themselves.

I roll with sigs off so I have no idea what you're advertising.

 

This is NOT the signature you are looking for.

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