You have to join a group of miners and share your computing resource.
The Butterfly labs. ASIC card consumes 350watts (cost $2196).
It seems to me that you are not so experienced about BTC mining. I suggest you to start mining with any pool. It would be better for you. I am mining with Genesis-mining.
You already know the answer.
BitCoin is a scam, designed to look like an alternative type of money. You want to spend money to lose it later - have fun.
BitCoin is not an investment in any way.
I'm pretty new to BTC mining but I've got a few dollars to spend. A lot of OpEd articles and reviews I read say stuff along the lines of "yada yada this won't pay itself off with the future difficulties yada yada." Well, here's my idea for a shoestring-budget mining rig. I welcome all input, positive and negative, but please stay on subject.
Asus K53U laptop - garbage processing. 8GB ram, replaced DVD with SSD drive
http://www.asus.com/Notebooks_Ultrabooks/K53U/
The laptop is now 'surplus' in my home and isn't good for much alone. What about USB ASICs combined with renewable energy? Instead of reinvesting in mining hardware, reinvesting (for example) in the cheap 45w solar kits that HarborFreight always has a coupon for in the paper, currently around $144.99 in my area. Obviously there's more efficient sources of renewable energy to explore, but I'm building backwards on a shoestring-budget, it is what it is at this point.
First; if BTC crashed, I'd rather be stuck holding at least a mix of solar panels, batteries, and obviously some mining equipment. The alternative imo is having a bunch of mining equipment lying around, which doesn't make sense for me. Cloud mining is not for me.
Running my K53U with a series of ASICs, reinvesting monies into solar until I have enough surplus power for another "mining rig." I bought a Kill-A-Watt to measure actual watts used as I build. Has this been done? Please give feedback, input, ideas, just stay on subject, thanks!
