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Re:Plugin USB BitCoin Miner by DanBC on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @02:20PM (#6763661)
> UPDATE: as of September 4, 2013, these will earn about 0.0019 BTC per day or about 0.057 BTC (approx $7.50) per month.

So, if you get it cheap enough, and run it off someone else's electricity, and the cost of bitcoins is high, it might just pay for itself?

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Re:Plugin USB BitCoin Miner by polaris9000 on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @02:22PM (#6763682)
Good point; At the level that BitCoin is currently, I wonder if this might indeed pay for itself, in the very least?
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Re:Plugin USB BitCoin Miner by wmf on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @02:27PM (#6763719)
In the very very far future perhaps. http://mining.thegenesisblock.com/a/0b4524e145
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