Transaction

b421dc1ed7464fa13da3fe21fff16ac97d144d11aa18a63f4cc37dfd78b32c7f
Timestamp (utc)
2024-03-22 12:42:43
Fee Paid
0.00000012 BSV
(
0.00691300 BSV
-
0.00691288 BSV
)
Fee Rate
10.22 sat/KB
Version
1
Confirmations
92,089
Size Stats
1,174 B

2 Outputs

Total Output:
0.00691288 BSV
  • j"1LAnZuoQdcKCkpDBKQMCgziGMoPC4VQUckM™<div class="post">The article is all about the cost of the hardware, neglecting the more significant cost: electricity.<br/><br/>Once you're above baseline power of 11 kWh/day (as any geek is), Southern California utilities get about $0.13/kwh marginal, with taxes, distribution, etc.<br/>The 24-core beast built in the article probably draws some serious current.&nbsp; Hard to guess how much, but I'd guess about 500W?&nbsp; Anyone know?<br/><br/>This will add 360kW/h a month to your electric bill, which will easily drive you into the next pricing tier, or maybe two tiers higher.&nbsp; Now your marginal power can be $0.18 kW/hr.<br/>Yikes.<br/>That bitcoin miner would be about $2/day to run, or $788 a year, which means you've never matched the hardware cost of the system in two or three years.<br/><br/>If you have to actively cool the room with the computer, at least during daytime, double it again.<br/></div> text/html
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