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From: "Ferdinando M. Ametrano" <ferdinando.ametrano@gmail.com>
To: Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Development <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Fwd: death by halving
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 23:43:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADfmNE=2yw65aVEr=HVLWGrcQMbvpRKjraaYZehtfX=xTbdsiw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAS2fgR4-V10i2D=v5-ZR9rWYcBjPKyRgGvgnG3JAmPKr4x19Q@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 10:43 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com>
wrote:

> > As of now the cost per block is probably already about 100USD, probably
> in
> > the 50-150USD.
>
> This is wildly at odds with reality. I don't mean to insult, but
> please understand that every post you make here consumes the time of
> dozens (or, hopefully, hundreds) of people. Every minute you spend
> refining your post has a potential return of many minutes for the rest
> of the users of the list.
>
> At current difficulty, with a SP30 (one of the
> leading-in-power-efficiency) marginal break-even is ~1144.8852 * $/kwh
> == $/btc.
>
> At $0.10/kwh each block has an expected cost right now, discounting
> all one time hardware costs, close to $3000.
>

yes, you're right I meant about $100USD per BTC, i.e. $2500 per block.
Because of my mistake I'll shut up and go back researching the archive on
this issue.

Thank you for the kind summary of the many good reasons why halving is a
non-issue. Very much appreciated, especially considering how precious is
your time.

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-28 22:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-25 18:06 [Bitcoin-development] death by halving Alex Mizrahi
2014-10-25 18:12 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-10-25 18:22   ` Alex Mizrahi
2014-10-25 18:31     ` Jeff Garzik
2014-10-25 19:08       ` Alex Mizrahi
2014-10-25 19:16         ` Gavin Andresen
2014-10-25 19:53           ` Alex Mizrahi
2014-10-25 21:50             ` Melvin Carvalho
2014-10-28 20:17           ` Ferdinando M. Ametrano
     [not found]             ` <CAAS2fgSiz-XRVQ4V+KbrTUWG4=g=WGf8c-pF4b4fFnfyU9HOqQ@mail.gmail.com>
2014-10-28 20:36               ` [Bitcoin-development] Fwd: " Gregory Maxwell
2014-10-28 20:57                 ` Alex Mizrahi
2014-10-28 21:19                   ` Jérémie Dubois-Lacoste
2014-10-28 21:43                     ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-10-28 22:43                       ` Ferdinando M. Ametrano [this message]
2014-10-29 14:34                         ` [Bitcoin-development] Death by halving (pro-active proposals) Sergio Lerner
2014-10-29 17:25                           ` Jeff Garzik
2014-10-28 21:23                 ` [Bitcoin-development] Fwd: death by halving Ferdinando M. Ametrano
2014-10-28 21:34                   ` Neil
2014-10-28 21:44                     ` Ferdinando M. Ametrano
2014-10-28 22:00                       ` Thomas Zander
2014-10-28 22:38                         ` Ferdinando M. Ametrano
2014-10-28 21:57                     ` Christophe Biocca
2014-10-25 20:27 ` [Bitcoin-development] " Adam Back
2014-10-25 20:43   ` Thomas Zander
2014-10-25 20:28 ` Thomas Zander
2014-10-25 20:49   ` Alex Mizrahi
2014-10-25 21:51     ` Alexander Leishman
2014-10-25 22:10 ` Ross Nicoll
2014-10-25 22:42   ` Melvin Carvalho

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