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Is Mining Bitcoin Profitable?

How Does Bitcoin Mining Work?

What is Bitcoin Mining?

Cryptocurrency mining is painstaking, costly Bitcoin mining machine build only sporadically rewarding. Nonetheless, mining has a magnetic appeal for many investors interested in cryptocurrency because of the fact that miners are rewarded for their work with crypto tokens. This may be because entrepreneurial types see mining as pennies from heaven, like California gold prospectors in 1849. And if you are technologically inclined, Bitcoin mining machine build not do it?

However, before you invest the time and equipment, read this explainer to see whether mining is really for you. We will focus primarily on Bitcoin (throughout, we'll use "Bitcoin" when referring to the network or the cryptocurrency as a concept, and "bitcoin" when we're referring to a quantity of individual tokens).

The primary draw for many Bitcoin miners is the prospect of being rewarded with valuable bitcoin tokens. That said, you certainly don't have Bitcoin mining machine build be a miner to own cryptocurrency tokens. You can also buy cryptocurrencies using fiat currency; you can trade it on an exchange like Bitstamp using another crypto (as an example, using Ethereum or NEO Bitcoin mining machine build buy bitcoin); you even can earn it by playing video games or by publishing blog posts on platforms that pay users in cryptocurrency. An example of the latter is Steemit, which is kind of like Medium except that users can reward bloggers Bitcoin mining machine build paying them in a proprietary cryptocurrency called STEEM. STEEM can then be traded elsewhere for bitcoin.

The bitcoin reward that miners receive is an incentive which motivates people to assist in the primary purpose of mining: to support, legitimize and monitor the Bitcoin network and its blockchain. Because these responsibilities are spread among many users all over the world, bitcoin is said to be a "decentralized" cryptocurrency, or one that does not rely on a central bank Bitcoin mining machine build government to oversee its regulation.

What Coin Miners Actually Do

Miners are getting paid for their work as auditors. They are doing the work of verifying previous bitcoin transactions. This convention is meant to keep Bitcoin users honest and was conceived by bitcoin's founder, Satoshi Nakamoto. By verifying transactions, miners are helping to prevent the "double-spending problem."

Double spending is a scenario in which a bitcoin owner illicitly spends the same bitcoin twice. With physical currency, this isn't an issue: once you hand someone a $20 bill to buy a bottle of vodka, you no longer have it, Bitcoin mining machine build there's no danger you could use that same $20 bill to buy lotto tickets next door. With Bitcoin mining machine build currency, however, as the Investopedia dictionary explains, "there is Bitcoin mining machine build risk that the holder could make a copy of the digital token and send it to a merchant or another party while retaining the original."

Let's say you had one legitimate $20 bill and one counterfeit of that same $20. If you were to try to spend both the real bill and the fake one, someone that took the trouble of looking at both of the bills' serial numbers would see that they were the same number, and thus one of them had to be false. What a bitcoin miner does is analogous to that—they check transactions to make sure that users have not illegitimately tried to spend the same bitcoin twice. This isn't a perfect analogy—we'll explain in more detail below.

Once a miner has verified 1 MB (megabyte) worth of bitcoin transactions, known as a "block," that miner is eligible to be rewarded with a quantity of bitcoin (more about the bitcoin reward below as well). The 1 MB limit was set by Satoshi Nakamoto, and is a matter of controversy, as some miners believe the block size should be increased to accommodate more data, which would effectively mean that the bitcoin network could process and verify transactions more quickly.

Note that verifying 1 MB worth of transactions makes a coin miner eligibleto earn bitcoin—not everyone who verifies transactions will get paid out.

1MB of transactions can theoretically be as small as one transaction (though this is not at all common) or several Bitcoin mining machine build. It depends on how much data the transactions take up.

"So after all that work of verifying transactions, I might still not get any bitcoin for it?"

To earn bitcoins, you need to Bitcoin mining machine build two conditions. One is a matter of effort; one is a matter of luck.

1) You have to verify ~1MB worth of transactions. This is the easy part.

2) You have to be the first miner to arrive at the right answer to a numeric problem. This process is also known as proof of work.

"What do you mean, 'the right answer to a numeric problem'?"

The good news: No advanced math or computation is involved. You may have heard that miners are solving difficult mathematical problems—that's not exactly true. What they're actually doing is trying to be the first miner to come up with a 64-digit hexadecimal number (a "hash") that is less than or equal to the target hash. It's basically guesswork.

The bad news: It's guesswork, but with the total number of possible guesses for each of these problems being on the order of trillions, it's incredibly arduous work. In order to solve a problem first, miners need a lot of computing power. To mine successfully, you need to have a high "hash rate," which is measured in terms of megahashes per second (MH/s), gigahashes per second (GH/s), and terahashes per second (TH/s).

That is a great many hashes.

If you want to estimate how much bitcoin you could mine with your mining rig's hash rate, the site Cryptocompare offers a helpful calculator.

Mining and Bitcoin Circulation

In addition to lining the pockets of miners and supporting the bitcoin ecosystem, mining serves another vital purpose: It is the only way to release new cryptocurrency into Bitcoin mining machine build. In other words, miners are basically "minting" currency. For example, as of Nov. 2019, there were around 18 million bitcoins in circulation. Aside from the coins minted via the genesis block (the very first block, which was created by Bitcoin mining machine build Satoshi Nakamoto), every single one of those bitcoin Bitcoin mining machine build into being because of miners. In the absence of miners, Bitcoin mining machine build as a network would still exist and be usable, but there would never be any additional bitcoin. There will Bitcoin mining machine build come a time when bitcoin mining ends; per the Bitcoin Protocol, the total number of bitcoins will be capped at 21 million. However, because the rate of bitcoin "mined" is reduced over time, the final bitcoin won't be circulated until around the year 2140.

Aside from the short-term bitcoin payoff, being a coin miner can give you "voting" power when changes are proposed in the Bitcoin network protocol. In other words, a successful miner has an influence on the decision-making process on such matters as forking.

How Much a Miner Earns

The rewards for bitcoin mining are halved every four years or so. When bitcoin was first mined in 2009, mining one block would earn you 50 BTC. In 2012, this was halved to 25 BTC. By 2016, this was halved again to the Bitcoin mining machine build level of 12.5 BTC. In about 2020, the reward size will be halved again to 6.25 BTC. As of the time of writing, the reward for completing a block is 12.5 Bitcoin. In November of 2019, the price of Bitcoin was about $9,300 per bitcoin, which means you'd earn $116,250 (12.5 x 9,300) for completing a block. Not a bad incentive to solve that complex hash problem detailed above, it might seem.

If you want to keep track of precisely when these halvings will occur, you can consult the Bitcoin Clock, which updates Bitcoin mining machine build information in real time. Interestingly, the market price of bitcoin has, throughout its history, tended to correspond closely to the marginal cost of mining a bitcoin.

If you are interested in seeing how many blocks have been mined thus far, there are several sites, including Blockchain. info, that will give you that information in real time.

Equipment Needed to Mine

Although early on in bitcoin's history individuals may have Bitcoin mining machine build able to compete for blocks with a regular at-home computer, this is no longer the case. The reason for this is that the Bitcoin mining machine build of mining bitcoin changes over time. In order to ensure smooth functioning of the blockchain and its ability to process and verify transaction, the Bitcoin network aims to have one block produced every 10 minutes or so. However, if there are Bitcoin mining machine build million mining rigs competing to solve the hash Bitcoin mining machine build, they'll likely reach a solution faster than a scenario in which 10 mining rigs are working on the same problem. For that reason, Bitcoin is designed to evaluate and adjust the difficulty of mining every 2,016 blocks, or roughly every two weeks. When there is more computing power collectively working to mine for bitcoin, the difficulty level of mining increases in order to keep block production at a stable rate. Less computing Bitcoin mining machine build means the difficulty level decreases. To get a sense of just how much computing power is involved, when Bitcoin launched in 2009 the initial difficulty level was one. As of Nov. 2019, it is more than 13 trillion.

All of this is to say that, in order to mine competitively, miners must now invest in powerful computer equipment like a GPU (graphics processing unit) or, more realistically, an application-specific integrated Bitcoin mining machine build (ASIC). These can run from $500 to the tens of thousands. Some miners—particularly Ethereum miners—buy individual graphics cards (GPUs) as a low-cost way to cobble together mining operations. The photo below is a makeshift, home-made mining machine. The graphics cards are those rectangular blocks with whirring circles. Note the sandwich twist-ties holding the graphics cards to the metal pole. This is probably not the most efficient way to mine, and as you can guess, many miners are in it as much for the fun and challenge Bitcoin mining machine build for the money.

The "Explain It Like I'm Five" Version

The ins and outs of bitcoin mining can be difficult to understand as is. Consider this illustrative example for how the hash problem works: I tell three friends that I'm thinking of a number between one and 100, and I write that number on a piece of paper and seal it in an envelope. My friends don't have to guess the exact number; they just have to be the first person to guess any number that is less than or equal to the number I am thinking of. And there is no limit to how many guesses they get.

Let's say I'm thinking of the number 19. If Friend A guesses 21, they lose because of 21>19. If Friend B guesses 16 and Friend Bitcoin mining machine build guesses 12, then they've both theoretically arrived at viable answers, because of 16<19 and Bitcoin mining machine build. There is no "extra credit" for Friend B, even though B's answer was closer to the target answer of 19. Now imagine that I pose the "guess what number I'm thinking of" question, but I'm not asking just Bitcoin mining machine build friends, and I'm not thinking of a number between 1 and 100. Rather, I'm asking millions of would-be miners and I'm thinking of a 64-digit hexadecimal number. Now you see that it's going to be extremely hard to guess the right answer.

If B and C both answer simultaneously, then the ELI5 analogy breaks down.

In Bitcoin terms, simultaneous answers occur frequently, but at the end of the day, there can only be one winning answer. When multiple simultaneous answers are presented that are equal to or less than the target number, the Bitcoin network will decide by a simple majority—51%—which miner to honor. Typically, it is the miner who has done the most work, that s, the one that verifies the most transactions. The losing block then becomes an "orphan block." Orphan blocks are those that are not added to the blockchain. Miners Bitcoin mining machine build successfully solve the hash problem but who haven't verified the most transactions are not rewarded with bitcoin.

What Is a "64-Digit Hexadecimal Number"?

Well, here is an example of such a number:

0000000000000000057fcc708cf0130d95e27c5819203e9f967ac56e4df598ee

The number above has 64 digits. Easy enough to understand so far. As you probably noticed, that number consists not just of numbers, but also letters of the alphabet. Why is that?

To understand what these letters are doing in the middle of numbers, let's unpack the word "hexadecimal."

As you know, we use the "decimal" system, which means it is base 10. This, in turn, means that every digit of a Bitcoin mining machine build number has 10 possibilities, zero through nine.

"Hexadecimal," on the other hand, means base 16, as "hex" is derived from the Greek word for six and "deca" is derived from the Greek word for 10. In a hexadecimal system, each digit has 16 possibilities. But our numeric system only offers 10 ways of representing numbers (zero through nine). That's why you have to stick letters in, specifically letters a, b, c, d, e and f.

If you are mining bitcoin, Bitcoin mining machine build do not need to calculate the total value of that 64-digit number (the hash). I repeat: You do not need to calculate the total value of a hash.

So, what do "64-digit hexadecimal numbers" have to do with bitcoin mining?

Remember that ELI5 analogy, where I wrote the number 19 on a piece of paper and put it in a sealed envelope?

In bitcoin mining terms, that metaphorical undisclosed number in the envelope is called the target hash.

What miners are doing with those huge computers and dozens of cooling fans is guessing at the target hash. Miners make these guesses by randomly generating as many "nonces" as possible, as fast as possible. A nonce is short for "number only used once," and the nonce is the key to generating these 64-bit hexadecimal numbers I keep talking about. In Bitcoin mining, a nonce is 32 bits in size—much smaller than the hash, which is 256 bits. The first miner whose nonce generates a hash that is less than or equal to the target hash is awarded credit for completing that block and is awarded the spoils of 12.5 BTC.

In theory, you could achieve the same goal by rolling a 16-sided die 64 times to arrive at random numbers, but why on earth would you want to do that?

The screenshot below, taken from the site Blockchain. info, might help you put all this information together at a glance. You are looking at a summary of Bitcoin mining machine build that happened when block #490163 was mined. The nonce that generated the "winning" hash was 731511405. The target hash is shown on top. The term "Relayed by Antpool" refers to the fact that this particular block was completed by AntPool, one of the more successful mining pools (more about mining pools below). As you see here, their contribution to the Bitcoin community is that they confirmed 1768 transactions for this block. If you really want to see all 1768 Bitcoin mining machine build those transactions for this block, go to this page and scroll down to the heading "Transactions."

(source: Blockchain. info)

"So how do I guess at the target hash?"

All target Bitcoin mining machine build begin with zeros—at least eight zeros and up to 63 zeros.

There is no minimum target, but there is a maximum target set by the Bitcoin Protocol. No target can be greater than this number:

00000000ffff0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Here are some examples of randomized hashes and the criteria for whether they will lead to success for the miner:

(Note: These are made-up hashes)

"How do I maximize my chances of guessing the target hash before anyone else does?"

You'd have to get a fast mining rig, or, more realistically, join a mining pool—a group of coin miners who combine their computing power and split the mined bitcoin. Mining pools are comparable to those Powerball clubs whose members buy lottery tickets en masse and agree to share any winnings. A disproportionately large number of blocks are mined by pools rather than by individual miners.

In other words, it's literally just a numbers game. You cannot guess the pattern or make a Bitcoin mining machine build based on previous target hashes. The difficulty level of the most recent block at the time of writing is about 13.69 trillion, Bitcoin mining machine build that the chance of any given nonce producing a hash below the target is one in Bitcoin mining machine build trillion. Not great odds if you're working on your own, even with a Bitcoin mining machine build powerful mining rig.

"How do I decide Bitcoin mining machine build bitcoin will be profitable for me?"

Not only do miners have to factor in the costs associated with expensive equipment necessary to stand a chance of solving a hash problem. They must also consider the significant amount of electrical power mining rigs utilize in generating vast quantities of nonces in search of the solution. All told, bitcoin mining is largely unprofitable for most individual miners as of this writing. The site Cryptocompare offers a helpful calculator that Bitcoin mining machine build you to plug in numbers such as your hash Bitcoin mining machine build and electricity costs to estimate the costs and Bitcoin mining machine build What Are Coin Mining Pools?

Mining rewards are paid to the miner who discovers a solution to the puzzle first, and the probability that a participant will be the one to discover the solution is equal to the portion of the total mining power on the Bitcoin mining machine build with a small percentage of the mining power stand a very small chance of discovering the next block on their own. For instance, a mining card that one could purchase for a couple of thousand dollars would represent less than 0.001% of the network's mining power. With such a small chance at finding the next block, it could be a long time before that miner finds a block, and the difficulty going up makes things even worse. The miner may never recoup their investment. The answer to this problem is mining pools. Mining pools are operated by third parties and coordinate groups of miners. By working together in a pool and sharing the payouts among all participants, miners can get a steady flow of bitcoin starting the day they activate their miner. Statistics on some of the mining pools can be seen on Blockchain. info.

"I've done the math. Forget mining. Is there a less onerous way to profit from cryptocurrencies?"

As mentioned above, the easiest way to acquire bitcoin is to buy it on an exchange like Coinbase. com. Alternately, you can always leverage the "pickaxe strategy." This is based on the old saw that during the 1849 California gold rush, the smart investment was not to pan for gold, but rather to make the pickaxes used for mining. Or, to put it Bitcoin mining machine build modern terms, invest in the companies that manufacture those pickaxes. In a cryptocurrency context, the pickaxe equivalent would be a company that manufactures equipment used for Bitcoin mining. You may consider looking Bitcoin mining machine build companies that make ASICs equipment or GPUs instead, for example.

Key Takeaways

By mining, Bitcoin mining machine build can earn cryptocurrency without having to put down money for it. Bitcoin miners receive bitcoin as a reward for completing "blocks" of verified transactions which are added to the blockchain. Mining rewards are paid to the miner who discovers a solution to a complex hashing puzzle first, and the probability that a participant will be the one to discover the solution is related to the portion of the total mining power on the network. Double spending is a phenomenon in which a bitcoin user illicitly spends the same tokens twice. You need either a GPU (graphics processing unit) or an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) in order to set up a mining rig.

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Inside the Race to Build the World's Fastest Bitcoin Miner

There's more than one way to make money ubild the Bitcoin craze, which has seen the value of the digital currency increase more than six-fold over the past few months. You can do it the old-fashioned way: buying low and selling high. But for the sophisticated digital-currency investor, there's a whole machjne world of Bitcoin speculation: the Bitcoin mining rig.

Like the currency itself, this strangely lucrative game is heating up – in a big way. One mining rig – available for preorder at a cost of about $1,800 in February – is now selling for more than $22,000 on eBay. And it hasn't even shipped yet.

Over the past year, a handful of companies have raced to build a new generation of computers that are specifically designed to mint digital money, and many speculators across the Bitcoin world are dying to get their hands on the latest hardware. This week, one of these companies, Butterfly Labs, is finally shipping its first custom-designed machines, six months behind schedule.

If Bitcoins are the fiat currency alternative for techno libertarians, then Bitcoin miners are the digital mint operators who keep the whole thing nitcoin. Bitcoin transactions are not registered with any central bank or brokerage firm or website. They're logged by a peer-to-peer network of computers. These computers keep track of who's transferring Bitcoins to whom, and then – every 10 minutes – they enter a kind of cryptographer's lottery, with the Bitcoin mining machine build getting paid 25 Bitcoins for their work. That's how new Bitcoin mining machine build get into the network. It's also how the Bitcoin miners earn their keep.

For Bitcoin miners, the name of the game is cryptography. And the lottery ticket is a hash – a number that represents a big bunch of data and is created via cryptographic algorithms. If one miner – or a group of miners – can take the transactions on the Bitcoin network and convert them into more cryptographic hashes faster than someone else, they have a better chance of winning that 25 Bitcoin payout. As Bitcoins have skyrocketed in value, the Bitcoin miners have been throwing more and more computing power onto the network.

When Bitcoins were first introduced, you could win the hashing lottery with a regular old personal computer. Now that's pretty much impossible. In fact, it now takes about 9 million times as much processing power to produce Bitcoins as it did in the beginning. So, for any Bitcoin miner to have a reasonable chance of winning, they have to seriously up their game.

That's where the new mining gear comes into play.

In the past year, three companies, Butterfly Labs, Avalon Asics, and Asicminer Bitcoin mining machine build a race to produce a bitcoim Bitcoin mining machine build of computers built with custom-designed chips (they're called ASICS: application-specific integrated circuits) that do nothing but create tickets for the Bitcoin mining lottery.

You plug one of these machines into your computer, run special mining software, and sit back and wait for the Bitcoins. But they're so powerful that they're making things harder for other miners. "The difficulty has been skyrocketing lately as these ASICS have been coming online," says Gavin Andresen, chief scientist with the Bitcoin foundation.

Last summer, Bitcoin miner Scott Novich bet on Butterfly Labs. It seemed like a reasonable bet at the time because Butterfly had already shipped specialized Bitcoin mining rigs that, when pooled with other miners, were cranking out an average of four to six Bitcoins per month for Novich, a graduate student at Rice University. Butterfly had the best reputation; it had shipped well regarded mining rigs in the past. And its miners – which look like stretched out versions of the Roku media player – simply looked cool.

So last July, Novich and a few friends shelled out an advance payment of about $1,200 for a Butterfly miner that the company said would be able to perform more than 60 billion hashes per second. His current mining rig performs 750 million hashes per second.

The Butterfly gear was supposed Bitcoin mining machine build ship by November. Today Novich is still waiting.

The bjtcoin was that Butterfly – based out of Kansas City, Missouri – banked on a cool design and a brand new chip manufacturing process and ended up getting bitccoin over its head. "We've hit quite a few Bitcoin mining machine build along the way, says Butterfly Chief Operations Officer Josh Zerlan.

The company had to redo its initial chip designs, but the worst snag was bkild November, when the Butterfly got a hold of its first chip samples. They were basically too hot to work, Zerlan says. "The plastic packaging on the top of the chip just macine exhaust the heat fast enough, so it basically melted the package."

And so, with customers growing angrier by the day, Butterfly was soundly beaten in the great Bitcoin mining race by Avalon Asics. Avalon used a less-cutting-edge chip manufacturing process, and it didn't pay too much attention Bitcoin mining machine build aesthetics, but it managed to ship out its first boxy, 67 Gigahash units Bitcoin mining machine build in Bitvoin hear CEO Yifu Guo tell it, Avalon won because they bet everything on a network of friends, college buddies, and acquaintances in China – who helped them build their first 300 systems in four months. After spending September and October last year working with "friends or people that were really smart" designing the systems, Guo flew to Shenzhen, China, where he spent another two months negotiating with the suppliers who would help him build his Bitcoin mining machines.

Guo called on his network to lend him cars, to introduce him to parts suppliers, even to ship packages. Avalon had sketched out the chip in the U. S., but it then paid (using Bitcoins, natch) a group of engineers at a Chinese computer company to build out the chip's design using specialized chip-making software that created specifications that the chip's manufacturer, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Bitcoin mining machine build, could actually use.

"Nothing happens in Bitcoin mining machine build if you don't know somebody. It doesn't matter how much money you have," Guo says. Bitcoin mining machine build really what it came down to."

Those folks who've been lucky enough to get their hands on one of these early Avalon systems are cleaning up. Miner Jeff Garzik was the first person to take possession of a Avalon machine. Last year, he plunked down preorder money for a variety of custom ASIC rigs, including $1,300 for his Avalon system. "At the time, it was a very risky bet," he said in an email interview. "None of the ASIC vendors were shipping, and all were funding their efforts through a pre-order model, akin to Kickstarter. This meant any buyer was paying months in

Advance for hardware that did not exist, and not even a guarantee of a refund upon failure."

But Garzik's Avalon bet paid off. Big time. He got his system the end of January. Within 20 hours, it had earned him nearly 15 Bitcoins. Today it cranks out just under Bitcoin mining machine build Bitcoins per day. That's about $500 Bitcoin mining machine build current Bitcoin exchange rates. "The first mover advantage is enormous," Garzik said in an email interview.

Avalon expects to Bitcoin mining machine build another 1,200 rigs within the next month.

Until Bitcoin mining machine build machije, Butterfly customers like Novich muning been left on the sidelines, watching the compute power on the Bitcoin network rise up, day by day, kining they waited.

Butterfly's Zerlan says the experience has been "very painful" and some customers are extremely angry. But reviewers and first-in-line customers are finally getting their hands on Butterfly's systems. Zerlan says that customers will still be able to make money mining Bitcoins. It will just take more time.

But with each new computer that ships, and each new adventurer that gets into Bitcoin mining, the bar is getting higher. Butterfly has already taken thousands of orders for the new systems. And Asicminer, which is both selling its own custom-designed machines and mining the Bitcoins itself, has already brought new custom ASIC systems to play.

So a year butcoin now, the 750 megahash mining rig that Scott Novich is running at home may not be worth the power it sucks up. It really depends on how much a Bitcoin is worth in 2014. And that's anyone's guess.

Is Bitcoin Mining Profitable?

How to Build an Ethereum Mining Rig at Home in 2020

Ethereum (ETH) has become more appealing in 2020, with prices rising above $270. Mining has also picked up, awarding 2 ETH each 15 seconds, or 8 ETH per minute.

Ethash Still Accessible to Home-Based Mining Rigs

In 2020, the Ethash algorithm is still amenable to home-based mining, and it is possible Bitcoin mining machine build build a rig and compete for block rewards.

An Ethereum mining rig is best built using GPU. Currently, there are specialized rigs with about 200 million hashes per second. However, the Ethereum community favors a potential hard fork to disable any Ethash-optimized ASIC.

Thus, it is safer to still use GPU, which is more agile and in a cinch, can be directed at new networks. Yet, some GPUs are optimized and achieve better performance with Ethash. At-home mining necessarily uses consumer electricity, which may affect vitcoin. However, mining is also a risky game and in cases of rising market prices for ETH, it may have a more significant payout further down the line.

How to Build an Ethereum Buils Rig

Building up sufficient hashing power is a matter of connecting more GPUs to achieve the rig’s final setup. Currently, Buiod Radeon VII is the most powerful card, producing 90 MH/s, with ProgPoW reaching 30 MH/s. Combining bitcoun video cards will quickly raise the price of the rig, as the AMD Radeon VII retails for above $500.

Building a rig also requires side components, including a power supply, a CPU, LAN components, as well as a physical crate for holding and ventilating as many GPUs as desired. Experts at the EthereumMiningBot also recommend a smart power plug, to track electricity usage.

Essentially, an Ethereum mining rig would resemble an entire computer, a dedicated machine to avoid overloading consumer electronics. A basic Intel i3 CPU is recommended, as well as just basic 4GB RAM and a solid-state drive. Assembling the actual rig can be easier with custom-designed racks or cases, allowing madhine connection of six GPUs (or 540 MH/s potential). To connect the GPUs, a motherboard with six slots and possibly an additional power button to make switching on technically easier also go into the building of bitccoin Ethereum mining rig. For more than three GPUs, a set of connectors may be needed to place the GPUs conveniently and connect them to the motherboard.

An SSD memory completes the machine, with the potential to add a butcoin wallet, or another basic tool to operate mining pools and receive ETH into a wallet.

The power connector will be extremely important for an efficient rig, and the recommendation is to use a model with platinum connectors, to avoid losses. The 1.2 kW Corsair CP-9020140-UK HX1200 allows for maximum power efficiency, to which a smart outlet may be added for tracking.

Assembling the computer components may pose difficulties, but an instructional video may help with the task.

Ethereum Mining Continues to Grow

Mining ETH at home is bulld a matter of achieving sufficient hashing power and joining the right pool to get a minnig of the daily rewards. The Ethereum network currently rewards 2 ETH per block each 15 seconds, down from as high as 5 ETH per block in previous reward periods. After the latest hard fork, only 2 ETH will be awarded, Bitcoin mining machine build up to the intentional switch to ETH 2.0, which will rely on staking.

But because the Ethereum network has been so slow in introducing staking, mining is still growing. In the past month, mining expanded again above 180 TH/s. At current competition levels and difficulty, ETH mining is once again favorable.

Until January 2020, ETH difficulty increased and made some miners give up. After a small emergency hard fork, miners were once again invited to join in, showing a clear pickup in mining activity in the past few weeks. The advantage of a home-based rig is that it is possible to mine while the process shows good bircoin, disabling the rig in cases of increased difficulty.

Mining 1 ETH May Also Cost 1 ETH

Building a Bitcoin mining machine build rig for Ethereum may be comparable to minibg an Antminer S17 ASIC price-wise. With a mafhine tag of close to $2,000 for Bitcoin mining machine build two-GPU setup, mining ETH is also an expensive bid. During times of scarcity, and depending on the supplier, GPU may be scarce or more expensive than expected. Bitcoin mining machine build, it is possible to spend $500 on a GPU with high Ethash performance.

With such a setup, producing 180 MH/s, the expected payout would be 4.21 ETH Bitcoin mining machine build year. This cost is close to the mining of Bitcoin (BTC), madhine there is a very thin breakeven. It would, once again, cost 4.21 ETH to mine 4.21 ETH.

There is currently Bitcoin mining machine build advantage to at-home moning in comparison hitcoin cloud mining. A Genesis contract will require about $1,500 to mine at 75 MH/s for a year. Having an at-home setup at 180 or even 200 MH/s is not much more expensive, and will have a longer lifetime. Downtime is also a decision Bitcoin mining machine build does not depend on Genesis mining, but on the rig’s owner.

Currently, Ethermine and f2Pool mine about 47% of all ETH blocks. Smaller Bitcoin mining machine build manage to gather around 2 to about 10% of the daily reward, but the final daily gain will only be seen in hindsight. Joining a pool is necessary, as solo mining at this stage is impossible and the chances of discovering a block are astronomical. But a pool like Ethermine has a Bitcoin mining machine build chance of discovering a block and Bitcoin mining machine build the reward.

As of February 2020, ETH reached $266.32, still up more than 100% since bitcoln lows last Machie. Mining ETH profitably is still a machinw bet, depending on whether the rally continues, and machihe mining competitors adding hashing power.

What do you think about ETH mining in 2020? Share your thoughts in the comments section below!

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