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Is GPU Mining still feasible?

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Asking because I know man people at the bitcoin talk forum don't think to believe so. I getting about ~1Ghs. 
 

To me it still makes sense as if I am not mining for bitcoins then I just participate in F@H or Seti/Primegrid, So I would be wasting that electricity anyway. Plus I am installing 280W solar panels with microinverters next month, so electricity will be relatively cheap for me (I live in sunny Southern California).

 

So given the current network difficulty and the soon rise in difficulty what are your thoughts? Am I better off switching to mining Litecoins?

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Well, unless you have tons of 7990s the hope is bleak to get bitcoins. You can try other currencies though.

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Switch to litecoins if you want any chance of making any money.

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Switch to litecoins if you want any chance of making any money.

 

 

NO!

Ok, thanks for the heads up, Will just switch to Litecoin if anything .\

 

Also, I have a few Bitcoins that I had from early on, should I just cash out now in small quantities or just sit on them? (Logically I think I should just cash out).

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I'd just cash out. Maybe use the money to buy yourself something nice... like a Gucci watch or something.

Or new Rig once the refresh to 2011 comes along.

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Depending on you which GPU you have, it likely is still profitable.

You will need to switch Scrypt Mining. Where you will get around 6.5 x more profit than mining sha-256. You can increase that even higher if you're willing to hop between blockchains/coins.

 

http://coinchoose.com/

 

Because 1G/hash on sha 256 is =/= to 1M/hash on scrypt you can easily estimate earnings without much conversion.

 

 

When comparing sha-256 to scrypt you can in theory bump your 1/Ghash to 6-9G/hash by mining a different coin and converting it into bitcoin.

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Users cannot, and will not securely manage key material. Most users can't and the ones that can, wont.

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