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It has been over a month since we’ve published a price comparison of the Bitcoin and Litecoin cloud mining services that we are using, testing or seem like a good option, as well as some that are probably not going to ever ROI for the term of their contract with the current difficulty and price, so that you can compare the different options better. Also it seems that there are still not that many easy to use Scrypt cloud mining services available and with the exchange rate of LTC going down it is getting interesting as it seems that most Scrypt ASIC hardware manufacturers are already moving to start providing cloud mining services as well.

Bitcoin cloud mining services:
Bitcoin Cloud Services – 0.0028 BTC per GHS, 5 years, no pool fee, no maintenance fee
PBMining – 0.0029 BTC per GHS, 5 years, no pool fee, no maintenance fee
CEX.io – 0.0036 BTC per GHS, indefinite, no pool fee, has maintenance fee
Hashop.io – 0.0069 BTC per GHS, 2 years, no pool fee, maintenance electricity fee
Cloud Hashing – 0.00875 BTC per GHS, 1 year contract, pool and maintenance fees
Cointerra Mining – 0.00876 BTC per GHS, 1 year contract, pool and maintenance fees

Litecoin cloud mining services:
Scrypt.cc – 0.11199 BTC per MHS, indefinite, no pool fee, no maintenance fee
Genesis Mining – 0.138 BTC per MHS (5% off with promo code CryptoMiningBlog5), 1 year, no pool fee, no maintenance fee

And a word of advice about Lunamine, it seems that the service has the lowest price per GHS, however in the last few days withdraw requests have not yet been processed and since this is still a very new service you should be careful should you decide to invest there! Also note that lately CEX has reached a lower and more attractive price with lowered maintenance fees and the other advantage is the exchange where you can trade your hashrate, ScryptCC also has an exchange where you cans ell your purchased hashrate, unlike with the other services. Cointerra and Cloud Hashing are still keeping higher prices that do not get updated with the increase of the BTC network difficulty, so they still do not seem that attractive with their expensive 1 year contracts compared to other services, even though with them you should not worry about possible scams.

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It is about time for us to do a quick report on the latest Bitcoin cloud mining services that we have started using and reviewing – Bitcoin Cloud Services and Lunamine. These two services are still very new, but they do look promising and are very attractive because of their very low prices per GHS even compared to other similar services with very low prices such as PBMining, let alone to other typically more expensive services such as CEX.io and other even more expensive services. It is normal that users want to get the best price per GHS from a cloud mining service in order to ensure a fast ROI and then get to the part where they actually make profit from their investment. So new services with very attractive prices do generate a lot of interest, however this also raises some concerns, especially if the people behind the specific cloud mining service do not wish to reveal much about their mining hardware and operation. This is precisely why we do always recommend to start small when you are testing a new cloud mining service and never invest more than you can afford to lose in case things turn out bad and the service turns out to be a scam… and we’ve already seen quite a few of these. Let us get back to the new Bitcoin cloud mining services that we have recently started testing…

Today we’ve passed a little over a month using the Bitcoin Cloud Services and the good news is that the service is still here and still pays daily. They do offer 5 years long contracts with no extra fees associated with the hashrate you purchase, currently the price of 1 GHS worth of Bitcoin cloud mining hashrate is 0.0028 BTC with a minimum order of 40 GHS or in order to check it out you need to invest a minimum of 0.112 BTC. The main disadvantage that the service still has is that there is still no history for all of the payments you have received and there is no information available for the total mined coins since you have started the mining contract. This makes it very hard to actually calculate the numbers as you only have the amount of the last daily payout available and these numbers do change with the change in difficulty of the Bitcoin network. Other than that things seem to be running smooth so far, you can check our detailed review of Bitcoin Cloud Services from the last month for some more details about the service.

The second service that we have started testing a little over 20 days ago – Lunamine, though the service itself is pretty much a month old already, is also still here and running just fine. The approach here is slightly different, there is no defined time for the contract, instead it runs for as long as the hashrate you have purchased is actually profitable – the mined coins minus the electricity cost is higher than zero. The minimum contract you can get here is 100 GHS for $150 USD or about 0.2551 BTC (~0.0025 BTC per GHS) or the more attractive price wise 1THS contract available currently for $1300 USD or 2.2108 BTC. Even though we’ve been testing the service for shorter time we’ve seen quite a lot of improvement in terms of the control functionality such as the ability to reinvest the mined coins for additional hashrate. The user control panel here is also more detailed and offers clear information about the total mined coins since the start of the contract as well as history about the withdraws you have made so far. The payment here is not automated, you need to request a payment to be made to you for any amount from your account balance. You can check our detailed review of Lunamine from the earlier this month for some more details about the service.

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We have decided to do a quick roundup of the current Bitcoin cloud mining prices you can find with various service providers that we have tested or covered so far. We are not covering Scrypt cloud mining services this time as currently the Litecoin difficulty is high and price, along with the price of most other Scrypt crypto currencies is currently quite low, so it might not be the best moment to invest in Scrypt at the moment. While at the same time the Bitcoin price is quite nice at the current level, though the network difficulty has been steadily increasing as well. We have decided to have two categories, one for the typical cloud mining services an the other for the hashrate renting services as an alternative for short term investment in more hashrate. Do note however that renting hashrate or mining rigs to mine Bitcoins for you with Bitcoins might not be the wisest idea.

Typical BTC cloud mining services:
Bitcoin Cloud Services – 0.00290000 BTC per GHS, 5 years, no pool fee, no maintenance fee
PBMining – 0.00300143 BTC per GHS, 5 years, no pool fee, no maintenance fee
CEX.io – 0.00682705 BTC per GHS, indefinite, no pool fee, has maintenance fee
Cointerra Mining – 0.00775 BTC per GHS, 1 year contract, pool and maintenance fees
Hashop.io – 0.00844000 BTC per GHS, 2 years, no pool fee, maintenance electricity fee
Cloud Hashing – 0.0116375 BTC per GHS, 1 year contract, pool and maintenance fees

Hashrate renting mining services:
Nice Hash – 0.00002620 BTC per GHS per Day (current)
Mining Rig Rentals – 0.00003490 BTC per GHS per Day (current), cheapest 0.00003 BTC


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