This probably depends on the particular mining pool, but would there be any negative consequences for a miner if it works 10 hours, then goes offline for 10 hours and so on? At the end of the month would it get about 50% of the Bitcoins it would have gotten if it worked non-stop? Or in other words, would the 10h on / 10h off be the same as if it worked 15 days and was off 15 days during a given month?
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383 sats \ 0 replies \ @justin_shocknet 5h
You're paid on reward divided by hash rate in a pool, by being offline half the time you're effectively halving your hash rate but also halving your power consumption
... But you're also losing depreciation on the hardware, every hour it's not mining is another hour newer and better chips are devaluing your chip.
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160 sats \ 1 reply \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 8h
The type of pool payout scheme will affect your results here. PPLNS - your payout could vary based on when the pool finds a block. FPPS- it should average out
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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 4h
I miss PPLNS
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @m0wer 4h
What you need to consider here is the cost of capital and the time to paying off the original investment.
For solar setups where you have excess energy during the day but mining is not profitable from the grid at night, the strategy is to get lower efficiency miners like S19s for cheap so that they pay off earlier. Having new generation models like an S21 or future S23 for running only half the time is probably a bad investment.
If you give more details on the situation we might come up with some ideas. But for your current question, mining half of the time gives you half of the rewards, half of the electricity consumption and full hardware depreciation/opportunity cost.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Zion 9h
I never mined, I'm basically the wrong person for this but I feel it will affect it
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