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Let's take a look at their Bitcoin miner. From their FAQ: $399, 50 gigahashes per second, 0.16 Joules per gigahash. Plugging those numbers into a Bitcoin mining calculator [1], initial revenue is under $0.05/day, and declines as the difficulty increases, until you're paying more for power than you're getting out in Bitcoins within a year. This does not make sense financially.

What's the point of the "miner", then? You don't need it to do transactions. This could be a pure software product.

[1] https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/calculator




the point is to remove the barrier of buying bitcoins and instead give these new users a bitcoin generator so they can try out bitcoins.. its less about being profitable and more about providing a platform to participate in the bitcoin ecosystem.




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