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Ask HN: What do to with crypto miner?
2 points by funfunfunction on Sept 5, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments
Last year at the height of the crypto craze I spent about $6,000 building an ethereum miner. Now that crypto is lower than when I built it, and the summer heat combined with the heat from the miner is making my office nearly uninhabitable, I'm wondering if I should convert the miner to a rig for ML, a gaming rig, or disassemble it and sell the parts. The miner has 6 RX-580s and 2 GTX-1070s, an i5, a decent motherboard, a 1350W power supply, and a 8GB of RAM. I'm curious if anyone in the HN community has suggestions, or stories about similar scenarios. All serious replies will be considered and are appreciated.

Thanks folks!




Honestly, I would continue mining with it. ETH and a lot of other coins will recover one day. You may take a hit now, but when it spikes again...


Also out of curiosity if you don't mind, what sort of rates were you getting, how many coins had you mined and what hive were you part of?


I use ethermine and have been getting about 180Mhs. I've only mined eth, as it has been the most profitable and I have less confidence in other coins that don't require specialized hardware.




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