[geeks] Question: how to profit from a Web-connected server

[Joshua D. Boyd]

I suspect that tsmc and global foundries are making money on it.  Perhaps also butterfly labs?

Phil Stracchino <alaric at metrocast.net> wrote:
>On 08/16/13 11:57, Bill Bradford wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 08:21:26AM +0000, microcode at zoho.com wrote:
>>>> I might make the equivalent of $10/day for the next couple of
>months
>>>> before more waves of even faster ASIC hardware hit the market and
>make
>>>> this stuff not worth the power it uses.
>>>
>>> So is this stuff worth paying for and throwing away? Is there
>anything else
>>> you can do with it after mining becomes more expensive than it's
>worth?
>> 
>> That's the bad side about ASICs - unless something else can be done
>with
>> double-SHA256 hashes, that's the only thing this hardware is good
>for.
>
>The thing I can't help but wonder is, who is actually *making money*
>from bitcoin mining?  Because I can't recall ever having talked to
>anyone who claimed to be actually making a net profit at it.
>
>
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