<p>Sure there was, when mining-difficulty was very low. And the miners did not have yet implemented mining on GPUs.</p>

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mklarmann
<p>Now, no. In the past before GPU mining when everyone was mining with CPUs the more CPU power you had the faster you could mine. The problem was that the exchange rate was so low that it wasn't profitable at the time.</p>

<p>If you had mined then and lost money you would have made up the difference at current market prices.</p>

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2013-10-16T17:56:55.993Z
Yeah, but was it ever profitable at the current exchange rates?
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Theodore Robert Campbell Jr
<p>Was there ever a time when mining on Amazon EC2 was profitable? When the difficulty was low, so was the exchange rate, so I'm not sure.</p>

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Mining on Amazon EC2
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# Mining on Amazon EC2

(Asked by: username_0 on 2013-10-13)

Was there ever a time when mining on Amazon EC2 was profitable? When the difficulty was low, so was the exchange rate, so I'm not sure.

**Tags:** mining-profitability, history, cpu-mining


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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2013-10-13. Score: 1

Sure there was, when mining-difficulty was very low. And the miners did not have yet implemented mining on GPUs.


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### Answer by username_2 on 2013-10-15. Score: 1

Now, no. In the past before GPU mining when everyone was mining with CPUs the more CPU power you had the faster you could mine. The problem was that the exchange rate was so low that it wasn't profitable at the time.

If you had mined then and lost money you would have made up the difference at current market prices.

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: Yeah, but was it ever profitable at the current exchange rates?  

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