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by gus_massa 4170 days ago
If you have to pay for the electricity, it's only economical to mine (Bitcoins) with an ASIC. The CPU and GPU mining is now so slow that you will get very few Bitcoins in average, and the cost of the electricity to run it will be grater than the money you can get from the Bitcoins. (To get a smooth outcome you should probably mine in a pool, but this decrease the expected average result only little.)