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Google has opened its Compute Engine and it has a price list. How much would cost to mine a bitcoin block with Google Compute Engine?
How much would cost to mine a block with Google Compute Engine?
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Even if it was a GPGPU cluster, you will not make a profit from the prices they are charging. Mining at this point is only profitable with FPGA, ASICs and certain GPUs pending power consumption.
1That's not what he asked. – Steven Roose – 2013-05-21T09:14:52.870
@StevenRoose because the question suffered from the xy problem. He likely should have asked "is it profitable to mine with Google Compute Engine?". – o0'. – 2013-05-21T16:36:09.660
@StevenRoose He asked a question that has a vacuous answer. I suspect his concern is what Lohoris pointed out. Is it profitable. I can pass the Turing test and infer meaning :) – Charles Hoskinson – 2013-05-22T01:03:22.153
4I'm not going to crunch the numbers right now, but it wouldn't be worth it. It would most likely take more than a year. – julian-goldsmith – 2013-05-20T22:59:15.980
It's CPU only - I doubt it would be profitable. – Nick ODell – 2013-05-20T23:06:25.913
They tell it's good to render videos. I wonder if a GPU farm wouldn't be much more cost efficient for that purpose too. – Jader Dias – 2013-05-20T23:12:36.450