Hi,
On Mon, May 04, 2026 at 11:23:07AM +0200, Jean-François Bachelet wrote:
> Hello folks ^^)
>
> anyone mining btc or else on their machines there ?
>
> if yes, what do you use ? (AMD GPU there)
You are many years too late to effectively mine bitcoin as an
enthusiast.
> thinking of it as machines running 24/7 could be made to do it since it are
> already running for anything else that should not up the electricity bill
> too much ;)
This is unlikely to work out economically for you. In most places in the
world the cost in electricity for mining btc is close to or exceeds the
value of the btc. And not just any GPU will do, you need very powerful
GPUs which also cost a fortune to buy and run.
The btc mining market is very crowded and farms of dedicated ASICs are
doing it. You are competing against these to try to be the one who mines
the block. It may never happen for you. Unless you control large amounts
of GPU compute the only way to do it is to be part of a mining pool that
shares the reward for blocks they mine.
If you have free electricity e.g. solar it may be feasible as part of a
pool, or with some other cryptocurrency that is less popular than btc.
You can easily see how difficult this is in reality by using a
calculator such as:
https://www.nicehash.com/profitability-calculator/amd-rx-9070-xt
Showing that an AMD RX 9070 XT for example will generate about 23 US
cents per day, before you consider the cost of the GPU and the
electricity. In UK I am currently paying the equivalent of 0.28 USD per
kWh so if I had that GPU and were to do this I'd be losing 1.86 USD per
day.
And that's just the economical arguments. There are quite a few ethical
concerns I would have with doing this but I don't think you want to hear
those.
Thanks,
Andy
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