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[The Doctor]

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On 08/12/2015 07:29 PM, Charley Sheets wrote:

> (roughly a year ago) it was not economical to mine Bitcoin using 
> anything but the best ASIC-based miners, and even then it was iffy 
> whether it was worth the electricity costs.

I've heard from folks who used to be pretty into mining that using
banks of ASICs (Neptunes, mostly) as part of mining pools wasn't even
profitable anymore.  I didn't look at their data but January or
February of this year was around the time they gave up.

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