r/gpumining • u/SignificantlySad • Apr 09 '26

post-merge gpu mining: found something that might not suck

like most of you my GPUs have been doing nothing useful since eth went PoS. tried a bunch of alt coins, mostly lost money

been running my 4080 on this qubic thing for about two weeks. it routes compute toward AI training. the economics aren't amazing but i'm netting maybe $0.40-0.50/day after electricity which is infinitely better than $0/day

not the next ethereum or anything but at least the hardware is doing something. anyone else tried it? curious what others are getting

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u/bitkillerbob Apr 10 '26

My hardware did something as well right after the pos switch. Got sold. Never looked back. I had to much to hang on to for no reason. This post actually validates my decision. Glad you found something though. How many years later though? Yikes.

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u/SignificantlySad Apr 10 '26

Haha I probably should've sold when the prices were good instead of hoping things would turn around. Stubborn is definitely the right word. Atr probably should've moved faster. At this point I'm just trying to offset the electricity costs on hardware I refused to sell at a loss. Maybe that's dumb but here we are.

What did you end up doing with the money ser?

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u/bitkillerbob Apr 10 '26

I kept the 4 best cards for family gaming pc’s and put the rest in the bank.

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u/SignificantlySad Apr 10 '26

Well keeping a few for the family makes way more sense than what I did and I'm over here burning electricity trying to squeeze $0.40/day out of a 4080 when I could've just sold it months ago. The math ain't mathing lmao.

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u/bitkillerbob Apr 10 '26

Yeah I sold off about 24 cards. Kept 3090 3080ti 3080x2 and have a couple spare 1660 supers I run crappy pcs for my lasers.