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 Hirom   ( @Hirom@beehaw.org )  to Technology · 7 months ago

Bitcoin mining is no longer profitable

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Bitcoin mining is no longer profitable

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 Hirom   ( @Hirom@beehaw.org )  to Technology · 7 months ago
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Reports indicate that mining a single Bitcoin now costs far more in electricity than it's worth, even at sky-high prices.
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    7 months ago

    Yeah, so you end up with a fraction of a fraction of the work time going to actually doing the block chain transaction, and the vast majority going into the artificial difficulty

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      7 months ago

      yup, running a global network on top of something designed to be slow seems… inadvisable.

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