tl;dr NO
A bit more than a week ago, I bought a used gaming notebook (Asus ROG GL502VS-FY045T) with a Nvidia Geforce GTX 1070 (8GB) graphics card for roughly 1200 Euro.
In the first place, I was just curious how mining works and in the second place, I considered that a Geforce GTX 1070 will give me quite acceptable results and would allow me to hit break-even after maybe a year or so.
Now, after mining for roughly one week, I have to consider it as a mistake.
The results are quite sobering:
Even if I'd run the (ZCash) miner for the whole time, I would only earn 50$ per month and this is even before deducing the electricity costs.
So let's say, the electricity costs account for 50% of all earnings, I would hit the break even point after only 4 years … if the notebook doesn't crash in that time and if the mining difficulty stays the same – which certainly won't be the case.
I probably would have been better off with a real miner or investing that money in a cloud-mining company like Genesis Mining.
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