On 3 April 2013 10:43, Eugen Leitl <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 09:03:19PM +0200, Melvin Carvalho wrote: > > > mining one bitcoin and the freedombox hardware is free :) > > You've not been keeping up to date: GPGPU clients are below > energy costs and even ASIC mining rigs are iffy on ROI. >
An ASIC should be OK, if you can get one. GPU / FGPA will generate more than the electricity but will unlikely pay or the hardware. But you are thinking about a bitcoin only paradigm. There is room for the coinspace to be 100 or 1000 times bigger. If GNU had started a coin 1-2 years ago I think all the major mining pools would have merge mined it, making it more attack resilient. They are generally good folks. If FBX could come up with a creative hack to make useful distributed coin system, you could lower hardware costs. I'm convinced you could lower hardware and shipping costs to zero, as the network grows. > > _______________________________________________ > Freedombox-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss >
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