Re:Bitcoin's mining difficulty has increased by 41.9% over t...
by elbigbad on Monday December 21, 2015 @11:22PM
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The question I haven't seen answered that I'm intrigued by: Assuming I put my 2015 pretty-normal-specs (i7 processor, 8gbs ram) laptop to work bitcoin mining 24 hours a day, how long before I have a single bitcoin?
Re:Bitcoin's mining difficulty has increased by 41.9% over t...
by pmorici on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @12:43AM
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Buy a scratch off lottery ticket you would have a better chance of coming out ahead.
Re:Bitcoin's mining difficulty has increased by 41.9% over t...
by techdragon on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @12:11AM
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At this point, basically never. Sad but true.
* The constant amount actually changes periodically when the coinbase reward is adjusted downward but that only happens about once every 4 years and historically exchange rate price appreciation has outstripped the reduced coinbase mining rewards. eventually the coinbase reward will go to zero and the number of coins that go to miners each day will be their relative share of the total fees being paid by users transacting on the network. Miners choose which transactions to include in a mined block so in the future a large miner may have some pricing power over transactions because they could refuse to process any transaction with a fee that falls below some threshold.