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Originally Posted by Zealotry
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Originally Posted by djroof
wtf is that?
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USB miners and fans plugged into powered USB hubs.
Those devices look like erupters which have a hash rate of about 0.333GH/s each, so all up that setup does about 12GH/s.
Currently that level of hashing will net you about $6 day. Sounds like gravy, but there's two things to bear in mind:
1) Difficulty will probably continue going up, which means you make less BTC for the same amount of work. If the USD value of BTC stabilises, you are making less and less USD each time the difficulty rises.
2) That set of erupters probably would have cost $1k+ to purchase. Even if by some miracle you were able to continue making $6 a day consistently, that's an awfully long payback time.
This person is either jumping on the bandwagon without doing the sums, or they have and they're banking on the value of BTC rising significantly in the future.