On: New Mersenne Prime discovered (probably)

[omgwtfbyobbq]

I remember some rough calculations suggested I needed to upgrade from agp to pcie to make bitcoin mining worth it financially. I went with boinc instead.

[andrepd → omgwtfbyobbq]

I remember calculating that the 0.08 btc that I was mining per day on my desktop wasn't worth the electricity.

[lupire → andrepd]

That's exactly how Bitcoin is designed to autobalance. It's only worthwhile if you believe demand will increase in future.