{"id":4124,"date":"2014-04-02T22:34:01","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T05:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=4124"},"modified":"2014-04-02T22:34:01","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T05:34:01","slug":"bitcoin-mining-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=4124","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Mining Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First off, I need to clarify that I am in it primarily for the acedemic portion of it.<\/p>\n<p>If I make a profit, great, but I put in $100 with another $100 coming from a friend into these USB Ant miners and I am ok with that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/BitCoinMinerRig.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4126\" alt=\"BitCoinMinerRig\" src=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/BitCoinMinerRig.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/BitCoinMinerRig.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/BitCoinMinerRig-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The only things in this rig that I cannot reuse is the USB ANT miners, and those set me back $200. \u00a0On facebook I said $300 but that included the other stuff.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/BitCoinHashRate.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4127\" alt=\"BitCoinHashRate\" src=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/BitCoinHashRate.jpg\" width=\"498\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/BitCoinHashRate.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/BitCoinHashRate-300x242.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So right now today, it takes 50GH\/s to get a bitcoin in a month, but that time increases, so I would say at this rate it would take about 4 months to mine a bitcoin. \u00a0And bitcoin today is about $430 (and dropping fast), but assuming that was stable&#8230; I would say it would take 2 1\/2 months to recoup the cost of the miners.<\/p>\n<p>I did run today, felt good, but for sure my legs are gone.<\/p>\n<p>Need to find them again.<\/p>\n<p>Weight: 305.6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First off, I need to clarify that I am in it primarily for the acedemic portion of it. If I make a profit, great, but I put in $100 with another $100 coming from a friend into these USB Ant &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=4124\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,11,3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-toys","category-technical","category-training","category-weighin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4124"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4128,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4124\/revisions\/4128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}