<p>Yes it can be worth it, but generally what happens is if it ever is worth it then a huge number of people start doing it until the prices of EC2 are driven up and it is no longer profitable. Here is a good blog post about the subject:</p>

<p><a href="http://da-data.blogspot.com/2013/12/briefly-profitable-alt-coin-mining-on.html" rel="nofollow">http://da-data.blogspot.com/2013/12/briefly-profitable-alt-coin-mining-on.html</a></p>

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2014-02-12T15:50:06.313Z
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placeybordeaux
<p>Only if you use the micro instance with a free account for the first year.</p>

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2014-02-12T12:46:24.210Z
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xmux
<p>I saw that mining BTC with CPU is not profitable anymore, and that you'd <a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=8405.0" rel="nofollow">lose money</a> mining bitcoin. Is the same thing true of litecoin?</p>

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2013-04-02T21:38:57.210Z
While the other question was technically about mining BTC and as such is not technically a duplicate, LTC mining on an EC2 node was discussed in an answer to [this question](http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/2172/)
David Perry
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Is it profitable to use Amazon EC2 to mine litecoins?
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# Is it profitable to use Amazon EC2 to mine litecoins?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2013-04-02)

I saw that mining BTC with CPU is not profitable anymore, and that you'd [lose money](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=8405.0) mining bitcoin. Is the same thing true of litecoin?

**Tags:** litecoin, mining-profitability, amazon-web-services

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: While the other question was technically about mining BTC and as such is not technically a duplicate, LTC mining on an EC2 node was discussed in an answer to [this question](http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/2172/)  

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### Answer by username_2 on 2014-02-12. Score: 1 | Accepted answer

Yes it can be worth it, but generally what happens is if it ever is worth it then a huge number of people start doing it until the prices of EC2 are driven up and it is no longer profitable. Here is a good blog post about the subject:

<http://da-data.blogspot.com/2013/12/briefly-profitable-alt-coin-mining-on.html>


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### Answer by username_3 on 2014-02-12. Score: 0

Only if you use the micro instance with a free account for the first year.


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