Ethereum vs Monero

[Geralt]

Hey all, decided to take a break from folding and switch to mining for a few days but I'm having a bit of trouble deciding on which currency to mine with my single 980 Ti. I did some homework and I've narrowed it down to Ethereum and Monero as two of the possible candidates to mine. Which one should I mine? Keep in mind, I'm just a hobby miner and I'm eventually just going to keep the currency that I've mined for a while.

[ItsTheDuckAgain]

well since you don't depend on daily prices and such, just mine whatever you want. both are good currently.

[Geralt]

3 minutes ago, ItsTheDuckAgain said:

well since you don't depend on daily prices and such, just mine whatever you want. both are good currently.

How about difficulty? I'd expect Ethereum to be more difficult to mine considering that there's ASICs for Ethereum

[ItsTheDuckAgain]

with only one card that doesn't matter :-) you will not yield significant results other than burning money for power which hopefully someone else pays.

 

If you want to make money with it than scale freaking big, hundrets of GPUs / ASICS,  country with cheap power for power consumption and cooling. There is no way to make a reasonable profit with just one card.

 

I'm running about 622 ASICS and a crapload of GPUs (~100) in totally yolod-together systems and it, by far, doesn't make up for a living, but it reached the point where it is basically maintenance free with the occasional dead GPU in the morning when checking in, after hundrets of hours invested in it for tweaking and error search and such. and no I don't pay the power for running it, I would actually loose money with a private power contract.

[bigneo]

2 minutes ago, ItsTheDuckAgain said:

and no I don't pay the power for running it, I would actually loose money with a private power contract.

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Essentially, you are stealing the power which in this case also translates to stealing the money  

 

But fair play for making all the effort and get it going.

[ItsTheDuckAgain]

Just now, bigneo said:

Essentially, you are stealing the power which in this case also translates to stealing the money  

 

But fair play for making all the effort and get it going.

well I'm not, there are other arangements involved, but all legal and good for both parties.

[Geralt]

16 minutes ago, ItsTheDuckAgain said:

with only one card that doesn't matter :-) you will not yield significant results other than burning money for power which hopefully someone else pays.

Ah I see alright then. Guess I'll go with Monero since it isn't saturated with ASIC miners.

[Geralt]

Just as an update, I've switched over to mining ZCash and I was just wondering, would it be okay to mine on my laptop as well? I tried mining on my laptop and the temps of the GPU stayed at 75C, not sure how safe it is to do that considering that I use my laptop for work as well. My laptop is a Clevo laptop and it has a pretty loud and beastly cooler compared to my 980Ti which runs at 80C with the fans maxed out. Anyone has experience in laptop mining?