ETH GPU Cloud Mining Market in 2017… Looking Grim
Aug 29, 2017 · 6 min read
In the hopes of beating Ethereum’s Metropolis deadline on predictable mining pools, I decided to consider what short term cloud mining opportunities are available to contribute to my existing workers, before changing gears toward other alt coins. The most notable options appeared to be AWS’s EC2 GPU instances, Azure’s GPU instances, Genesis Mining, Hashflare, Eobot, NiceHash, and Crypterra.
As of the date of this article, as we approach Ice Age, the approximate cost of 1 block at a reward of 5 ETH plus uncles is roughly 1GH/s per day for 1 month…

