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Anyone care to calculate the actual expected revenue you could get from this?


If you have an average consumer box and leave this running during the day, a few USD a year at current exchange rates.


Not even that much. On my old laptop I get a little more than 1000 hash. Assuming that average computer is twice as fast as mine we get 2 khash/s. Inserting it in the calculator [1] shows that it would take 6068212 days on average to calculate one block of 50 bitcoins. That is 332.5 years per bitcoin. At current rate it means $0.02 per year.

[1] http://www.alloscomp.com/bitcoin/old_calculator.php


I stand corrected, thanks.




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