[quote=Awson]
I was actually going to say that when I saw that this thread was bumped."Doesn't it cost as much or even more in electricity to mine bitcoin than they are worth?"
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Not to mention the amount of computational power spent is rather... [url=http://www.forbes.com/sites/reuvencohen/2013/11/28/global-bitcoin-computing-power-now-256-times-faster-than-top-500-supercomputers-combined/]ludicrous[/url]