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Updated Daily Profit from HashFlare and GigaHash Cloud Mining Services

12, May 2015

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Time for another update on the actual daily profit we are getting after about two weeks of using the two new additions to the list of cloud mining services that we are testing. The first one is HashFlare powered by HashCoins mining hardware. Below you can see the daily actual profit (the mined coins minus the maintenance fee) we got for 100 GHS cloud mining hashrate purchased at the service:

27.04.15 – 0.00104485 BTC
28.04.15 – 0.00102340 BTC
29.04.15 – 0.00103423 BTC
30.04.15 – 0.00103791 BTC
01.05.15 – 0.00102066 BTC
02.05.15 – 0.00105168 BTC
03.05.15 – 0.00104769 BTC
04.05.15 – 0.00103686 BTC
05.05.15 – 0.00099838 BTC
06.05.15 – 0.00057474 BTC
07.05.15 – 0.00060874 BTC
08.05.15 – 0.00059624 BTC
09.05.15 – 0.00063311 BTC
10.05.15 – 0.00060962 BTC
11.05.15 – 0.0058921 BTC

Notice that starting from 6th the daily profits here drop significantly, there is no mistake in the numbers, as we’ve already explained in our previous publication, the maintenance fee prior to that was apparently mistaken and only about 10% of what the actual fee should’ve been has been deducted from the mined coins.

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The second cloud mining service is GigaHash powered mostly by Technobit ASIC miners, a smaller mining operation also EU-based. Do note, as observed by experts at Bitcoin Profit that the actual profit you get from cloud mining services can vary depending on the BTC exchange rate as the maintenance fees usually covering electricity and such are fixed in USD, so with higher exchange rate the costs are getting smaller and the profit per GHS higher. Below you can see the daily actual profit (the mined coins minus the maintenance fee) we got for 100 GHS cloud mining hashrate purchased at the service:

30.04.15 – 0.00046600 BTC
01.05.15 – 0.00063100 BTC
02.05.15 – 0.00060000 BTC
03.05.15 – 0.00058000 BTC
04.05.15 – 0.00049000 BTC
05.05.15 – 0.00048500 BTC
06.05.15 – 0.00060000 BTC
07.05.15 – 0.00049000 BTC
08.05.15 – 0.00050000 BTC
09.05.15 – 0.00051500 BTC
10.05.15 – 0.00053000 BTC
11.05.15 – 0.00054000 BTC
12.05.15 – 0.00048000 BTC

Both services seem to be running smooth and problem free and provide pretty consistent results, though at the second one we see some peaks. These stable results in terms of actual profit are thanks to the quite stable network difficulty and price of Bitcoin lately and that makes it easier to do some estimates when things are more stable, though there are no guarantees if they will continue to be like that and for how long.

– For more details about the new cloud mining service HashFlare we are testing…
– For more details about the new cloud mining service GigaHash we are testing…

Actual Daily Profit from HashFlare and GigaHash Cloud Mining Services

4, May 2015

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Time to report the actual profit we are getting after a few days of using the two new additions to the list of cloud mining services that we are using. The first one, HashFlare powered by HashCoins mining hardware is giving higher profit, but from the logs we are seeing it could be due to some mistake with the maintenance fee calculation (could be a bug in the service) as the fees do seem to be much lower than expected. Below you can see the daily actual profit (the mined coins minus the maintenance fee) we got for 100 GHS cloud mining hashrate purchased at the service:

27.04.15 – 0.00104485 BTC
28.04.15 – 0.00102340 BTC
29.04.15 – 0.00103423 BTC
30.04.15 – 0.00103791 BTC
01.05.15 – 0.00102066 BTC
02.05.15 – 0.00105168 BTC
03.05.15 – 0.00104769 BTC

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The second cloud mining service, GigaHash apparently using Technobit miners, a smaller mining operation, has lower actual profit, but here the results seems more realistic. Do note that the actual profit you get from cloud mining services can vary depending on the BTC exchange rate as the maintenance fees usually covering electricity and such are fixed in USD, so with higher exchange rate the costs are getting smaller and the profit per GHS higher. Below you can see the daily actual profit (the mined coins minus the maintenance fee) we got for 100 GHS cloud mining hashrate purchased at the service:

30.04.15 – 0.00046600 BTC
01.05.15 – 0.00063100 BTC
02.05.15 – 0.00060000 BTC
03.05.15 – 0.00058000 BTC

– For more details about the new cloud mining service HashFlare we are testing…
– For more details about the new cloud mining service GigaHash we are testing…

CEX.IO Temporarily Suspends Cloud Mining Services

12, Jan 2015

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CEX.IO has just announced that they are temporarily suspending their Bitcoin cloud mining services at the time of the next difficulty increase. We can’t say we are surprised by that news coming from CEX.IO as the company already had quite high maintenance fees, apparently due to the use of older mining hardware that is not so power efficient anymore. We just did not expect to see one of the largest cloud mining service provider to temporary stop their cloud services due to mining not being profitable anymore, so the platform will continue to operate as a crypto currency exchange. Below is a quote of the official information that they have published on their blog:

Taking into consideration our users’ interests, the recent Bitcoin price drop, as well as the upscaling of the mining difficulty, CEX.IO Bitcoin Exchange would like to announce a temporary suspension of cloud mining services provided by the platform at the time of the next difficulty increase.

According to the 11.5. paragraph of CEX.IO Terms of Use:
“Mining with using User’s Gigahashes can be stopped by CEX.IO if the amount of the Maintenance Cost exceeds rewards for each mined block or if the mining is economically inexpedient.”

Thereby, all GHS formerly purchased by CEX.IO users remain their absolute property, with appropriate figures reflected in users’ profile balance. Additionally users will be able to manually enable mining with Gigahashes by their own choice.

“Suspension of CEX.IO cloud mining service is only a forced temporary measure, the result of cloud mining costs exceeding mining profit,” Jeffrey Smith, Chief Information Officer of CEX.IO. “Currently all cloud mining/maintenance costs are directed to the Hardware provider, hence, we are open for negotiations with additional mining hardware providers, who can offer favourable terms. And, as soon as we get an opportunity to upgrade mining hardware, or come to more efficient terms with energy suppliers, cloud mining process will be automatically resumed.”

Meanwhile, CEX.IO will continue operating as full service exchange platform for trading cryptocurrencies and fiat money.


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