Comment on Ask HN: does bitcoin mining pay off?parentComments−dustcoin13yNo. CPUs are useless for mining, and the only GPU instance AWS offers uses Nvidia GPUs, which are about 5x worse than the equivalent AMD/ATI GPUs. Even if AWS had AMD/ATI GPU instances, the costs would probably be too high.
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No. CPUs are useless for mining, and the only GPU instance AWS offers uses Nvidia GPUs, which are about 5x worse than the equivalent AMD/ATI GPUs. Even if AWS had AMD/ATI GPU instances, the costs would probably be too high.