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Originally Posted by Zen-
My old man mines various altcoins and makes a profit, nothing worth the time you'd spend doing it but it keeps him active and he hates paying gas bills so it heated his house for the winter ^_^
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I've been using custom private pool software to mine several obscure altcoins with a very modest hashrate (which is deliberate). Each individual coin is generally worth very little, but the balance of each builds over time, and the recent sudden rise in BTC value means it's now worth spending a couple of hours to deposit and sell them off.
Spending $20 in electricity to make $300 in Bitcoins is nice, but it's a slow and laid back process, and it doesn't scale... it's really just for geeky fun, with the occasional windfall.