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Making $114 a day mining Bitcoin in Jakarta

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Re: Making $114 a day mining Bitcoin in Jakarta

#21
$114/day is actually a very good income income in Indonesia. For comparison, fresh grads are paid around $200 - $1000 a month (excl. bonuses) depending on the company (better pay for established, international corp).

The only problem I see is the reliability of the electricity provider itself. There are frequent surges and parts of Jakarta are known to experience regular rolling blackouts.

Re: Making $114 a day mining Bitcoin in Jakarta

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FTA: > Electricity in Jakarta, Indonesia costs three cents per kilowatt hour. That’s 30 cents less than power in the US and Europe. Uh...Power in the US costs 30+ cents/kWh? In which part of the country?? In Ontario, Canada, the price is about 6.7 cents/kWh during the night and peaks at 12.4 cents/kWh in the afternoon. http://www.ontarioenergyboard.ca/OEB/Consumers/Electricity/E...

Just over $0.07 in Manitoba .. which has gone up considerably (likely close to 50%) over the last 5-6 years! We use to have it great until they decided they need to build more dams :(

Oh, and that's a flat rate.

Re: Making $114 a day mining Bitcoin in Jakarta

#23

'105 GPU system ' it'll be redundant is about a week or two when ASICs hit hard

since litecoin uses scrypt hashing algorithm, which has memory requirement. early asic for litecoin mining is not likely to be as huge a performance jump as asic for bitcoin mining (compared to gpu mining). so his investment may not be that bad. :)

Re: Making $114 a day mining Bitcoin in Jakarta

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Indonesia mainly runs on thermal power, it is kind of sad that those crypto currencies indirectly encourage making profits out of cheap labor and the planet itself. source wikipedia: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_stations_in_Ind...

On the flip side, since the network doesn't care where the miners live, for-profit mining will end up happening in countries with an abundance of hard-to-transport cheap renewable energy.

Re: Making $114 a day mining Bitcoin in Jakarta

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$114 a day is equivalent of $14.25 working 8 hrs/day. I think there are many ways to make $14/hr without investing in expensive equipment (which will also need to be replaced eventually running that hot). Actually, person that is capable of building such thing and keeping it working could probably easily fetch much more than $14/hr.

Hi, I'm a web develop from Jakarta. $114/day is really big here. Our IT/CS fresh grad usually get a salary ranging from $250 to $300/month.

Re: Making $114 a day mining Bitcoin in Jakarta

#26
Article title is wrong, these are Litecoins not Bitcoins.

This might pay off mining 60LTC per day and hoarding them. The guy who started Litecoin now works for Coinbase, which may adopt Litecoin and will no doubt start a gigantic speculation bubble this Indonesian dude can cash out with http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/08/litecoin/

Re: Making $114 a day mining Bitcoin in Jakarta

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FTA: > Electricity in Jakarta, Indonesia costs three cents per kilowatt hour. That’s 30 cents less than power in the US and Europe. Uh...Power in the US costs 30+ cents/kWh? In which part of the country?? In Ontario, Canada, the price is about 6.7 cents/kWh during the night and peaks at 12.4 cents/kWh in the afternoon. http://www.ontarioenergyboard.ca/OEB/Consumers/Electricity/E...

California? Lower tier is 10 cents, next one is 30 cents, and there are 74 and 95 cents ones in peak days.

Could you clarify this? I'm not overly familiar with California's rates, but I've looked at what seem to be the two most prominent providers (PG&E and SCE), and neither of them have rates higher than 35 cents even at their top tiers. And there is no mention of increased rates during peak hours or days (I'm not even entirely sure what would define a peak day).

Re: Making $114 a day mining Bitcoin in Jakarta

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FTA: > Electricity in Jakarta, Indonesia costs three cents per kilowatt hour. That’s 30 cents less than power in the US and Europe. Uh...Power in the US costs 30+ cents/kWh? In which part of the country?? In Ontario, Canada, the price is about 6.7 cents/kWh during the night and peaks at 12.4 cents/kWh in the afternoon. http://www.ontarioenergyboard.ca/OEB/Consumers/Electricity/E...

Yes, in a lot of jurisdictions, that's the generator cost. Generation is typically Here in NZ, I get a generation charge, a national lines charge, and a local lines charge per kwh. Then I've got an additional daily charge to be connected to the network. It works out to NZ$0.22/kwh.

Electricity isn't very useful when it's at the hydro lake!

[Edited to add numbers] Looking into it, Ontario power is:

(Peak 11AM-5PM) 12.4c/kWh generation. 3.37c/kWh distribution 1.21c/kWh transmission

$17.29/mo connection.

So, that's CDN16.98c/kWh delivered to a suburban home.

Still, nowhere near 30c/kWh.

Re: Making $114 a day mining Bitcoin in Jakarta

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FTA: > Electricity in Jakarta, Indonesia costs three cents per kilowatt hour. That’s 30 cents less than power in the US and Europe. Uh...Power in the US costs 30+ cents/kWh? In which part of the country?? In Ontario, Canada, the price is about 6.7 cents/kWh during the night and peaks at 12.4 cents/kWh in the afternoon. http://www.ontarioenergyboard.ca/OEB/Consumers/Electricity/E...

I live in Southern California. SC Edison has a 4 tier pricing system based on kWh consumed. The first tier is $0.13 kWh, while the top tier is $0.31 kWh.

Re: Making $114 a day mining Bitcoin in Jakarta

#30
post #3

FTA: > Electricity in Jakarta, Indonesia costs three cents per kilowatt hour. That’s 30 cents less than power in the US and Europe. Uh...Power in the US costs 30+ cents/kWh? In which part of the country?? In Ontario, Canada, the price is about 6.7 cents/kWh during the night and peaks at 12.4 cents/kWh in the afternoon. http://www.ontarioenergyboard.ca/OEB/Consumers/Electricity/E...

NYC is over 30c/kWH (to my appt), cost & delivery & taxes.

400kWh is $127.93 or 32cents/kWh

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