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I am thinking of building one and looking at parts now, so will it still be profitable in the future, will I be able to mine other currency if ether dies out or is not profitable anymore? I am willing to spend 800 dollars what am I looking at now, will Nvidia GPUs work, any suggestions?

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nope.

 

nvidia is worse at ETH than AMD, so mine zcash.

 

but if eth drops, everything drops. bitcoin isn't feasible at all. 

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3 minutes ago, themctipers said:

nope.

 

nvidia is worse at ETH than AMD, so mine zcash.

 

but if eth drops, everything drops. bitcoin isn't feasible at all. 

bitcoin is feasible its just not what people think it is its not for day to day transactions its a long term holding account. coins like dash and eth are the workhorses of the crypto world 

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nope,

 

Down goes the crypto currency yet again! 

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Just now, Alaradia said:

dash and eth are the workhorses of the crypto world 

Yeah for a few months until the currency dies out 

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1 minute ago, Alaradia said:

bitcoin is feasible its just not what people think it is its not for day to day transactions its a long term holding account. coins like dash and eth are the workhorses of the crypto world 

for mining.

you're not mining shit with bitcoin. 

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Just now, themctipers said:

for mining.

you're not mining shit with bitcoin. 

he was asking about mining eth not btc.... also you can mine for bitcoin its just the roi is 3x (150-190) days the time as eth. and you use asics not gpus/

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11 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

nope,

 

Down goes the crypto currency yet again! 

what are you on about?marketcap.PNG.02e2230a433bb6556a7f2e71a6fb6588.PNG

Sure, some are down, but that's just regular day-to-day variation in cost. The only thing that has seen a tangible drop in value is ETH after the whole blockchain debacle this week.

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I mean it really depends if you are willing to take the risk. Ethereum is moving to casper which will more or less kill mining for it. 

 

It's going to be implemented around September 1st I believe. The risk is in mining other coins afterwards or selling your rig and hoping you made enough money mining to pay back the initial cost.

Don't talk about stale memes.

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