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Re:The Kingdom of Bhutan Has Been Quietly Mining Bitcoin for... by saurik on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @04:57AM (#35784951)
You only need a crazy efficient rig to mine Bitcoin if you have to still make money after factoring in your electricity costs; if you are given free electricity, you will be profitable using any existing computer you have to mine: you also won't be making as much money per unit of time, sure, but you will still be making money at that rate.
Re:The Kingdom of Bhutan Has Been Quietly Mining Bitcoin for... by giantrobot on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @12:55PM (#35790588)
Mining rates are a few tens of cents per day per TH/s. Even with "free" electricity the payback time for a miner will take a long time. If you've got a non-optimized miner the payout rate would take months just to be measurable.