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Re:Bitcoin's Price Surge Is Making Hobby Mining Profitable A... by mabbo on Monday July 10, 2017 @11:57AM (#14737074)
The source of the power is irrelevant: you could be selling that electricity to the grid, or offsetting the cost of your home's usage. Buying a solar panel may eliminate the middle man, but there's still lost opportunity cost.
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Re:Bitcoin's Price Surge Is Making Hobby Mining Profitable A... by bigtunacan on Monday July 10, 2017 @12:06PM (#14737156)
The source of power may be irrelevant to you, but not to me. Where I live net metering is capped at 30% of my utility costs. So if I produce more than 30% of what I use the utility company sucks up the excess that I produce and keeps it for free.
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Re:Bitcoin's Price Surge Is Making Hobby Mining Profitable A... by danmaz74 on Monday July 10, 2017 @05:31PM (#14739880)
Well at least they don't charge you negative prices, as instead happens to some utilities...
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Re:Bitcoin's Price Surge Is Making Hobby Mining Profitable A... by mabbo on Monday July 10, 2017 @12:19PM (#14737296)
Valid point!
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