I've been examining Monero mining profitability, and the numbers don’t seem to add up. For example, the AMD EPYC 9654 96-core CPU, which is the fastest available, achieves around 184,819 hashes per second according to benchmarks on XMRig. When I plug this data into a Monero mining calculator, it estimates a profit of about $4 per day before the electricity costs. Given that this CPU costs around $10,000, it would take about 8 years just to break even, without considering other operational costs and hardware depreciation. Are people mining at a loss? Why?
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