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Re:Ethereum miner with Terraform by audio1001 on Saturday January 27, 2018 @10:20PM (#16249570)
Is this profitable?
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Re:Ethereum miner with Terraform by CaveTech on Saturday January 27, 2018 @10:24PM (#16249585)
If it was I can promise you amazon would be out of gpu instances.
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Re:Ethereum miner with Terraform by jlgaddis on Saturday January 27, 2018 @10:41PM (#16249661)
The readme shows roughly 4.5 Mh/s which might get you maybe $10/month if you're lucky.

A g2.2xlarge will cost you $0.65/hour.

So, no, it's not anywhere remotely close to profitable -- unless you've stolen some AWS credentials or (like what's apparently happening here) you get others to mine for you and eat the AWS costs.

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Re:Ethereum miner with Terraform by koolba on Saturday January 27, 2018 @11:03PM (#16249732)
Yes but likely only for the guy who has the private key hard coded in the config.
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Re:Ethereum miner with Terraform by deadw0mb on Saturday January 27, 2018 @10:22PM (#16249577)
No
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