LINKS: - - - - - Welcome to! Pure security using only for fair distribution of wealth. How to effectively calculate PPC Profitability. Note: The figures used in these scenarios are for demonstration purposes only, you should be smart enough to input your own values such as for price, block reward, cost per/GH with your own projections Scenario 1: Just Buy PPC and do PoS • You have $10,000 • Let's say PPC = $0.40 each • This assumes you can buy 25,000 PPC • 25,000 coins x 1% = 250 coins per year.

• plus this compounds. So under this scenario, $10,000 gets you a guaranteed 25,250 coins after 1 year. (This Option is Low Risk - Guaranteed return on investment) ~ ~ ~ Scenario 2: Buy Mining Gear and do PoW mining • You have $10,000 • You buy mining gear that after all expenses, shipping, accessories the total cost is $12 per GH/s.

• So basically, you buy 833 GH/s with the money. • Let's say network hash rate STAYS @ 15 TH/s.

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( unlikely) • 833/15,000 = about 5% of the total network hash rate. • Now assume on average there are 33 PoW blocks per day. • And let's also is assume the block reward will STAY @ about 200 coins. ( unlikely) • 33 x 200 = 6,600 total new PoW coins per day (Note: This is currently the 'actual net' inflation rate which is really already lower than where Bitcoin was last year when the block reward was 50. PoS inflation is decentralized so it doesn't really count as inflation - PoS inflation basically amounts to being the same thing as if you were to add more decimal places to Bitcoin - if you increased its decimal place past 8 - all it does is increase the units of account, but you keep the same value proportional to the coins you have.) • Take your 5% x 6,600 = 330 coins per day you will mine if all stays the same (unlikely). • 25,000/330 = 75 days (if all stays the same) to possibly recoup your investment! So basically, under this scenario you are betting you will recoup your investment back after 2.5 months, and everything else after that is extra!

(This Option is High Risk - Higher possible return on investment, also higher risk of not recouping investment if hash rate & difficulty increases a lot and block reward drops) • • • • •. This is interesting. If you are thinking of mining, Consider that in the last 2 months: • The has gone up about 9x.

• The block reward has gone down about 32% (308-208) So basically, if you go based on the last 2 months, the total network hash rate is increasing by an average of 3.5% per day. So if you want to be realistic about your projections, I'd suggest the following: Take whatever your estimated investment period is and run a forward looking projection for Peercoin's total network hash rate. So basically, the peercoin network is at about 10TH right now.

At the current rate, the hash rate will be about 75TH in 2 months. Then, I would say, try running the profitability calculations based on 75TH or at least 50TH and see if you are still going to be profitable within your goal time-frame for recouping your investment.

So a more reasonable projection is that 50TH will be reached within a month or so. You also should probably figure in that the block reward will likely decrease by about 15% within a month or so as well.

SmartCash SMART Solo Mining Luck there. • 833/50,000 = 1.66% of total network hash rate. • Block reward @ about 15% less = 170 coins (ish) If you re-run these calculations, 33 blocks x 170 coins = 5,610 PoW coins per day (within a month or so). 1.66% x 5,610 coins per day = 93 coins per day on average over the next 2 months. 60 days x 93 coins = only 5,588 coins (estimated total coins you would have at the end of 2 months) Under these conditions, it is actually smarter to buy coins at $0.40 cents each! If you just buy them, you are guaranteed to get 25,000 coins.

After about a month or so, the hash rate goes up and block reward goes down so that to try to mine the 25,000 coins / 93 coins per day = 269 days (9 months) to recoup your investment! (not so worth it now is it?) Once the total network hash rate hits 75TH (in about 2 months), your profitability goes down even more! ( see below) • 833/75,000 = 1.11% of total network hash rate.

• Block reward likely be down to about 160 coins. 33 blocks x 160 = 5,280 1.11% x 5,280 = You will be getting only about 59 coins per day after 2 months So under these conditions: If you choose the mining option, you will have an estimated 5,280 coins at the end of 2 months. And be getting less than 59 coins per day each day, and even less as time goes on each day thereafter. It might be better to consider buying coins outright. Even if 1 PPC = $1.00, that comes to 10,000 PPC guaranteed.

Might be less risky than choosing the mining option where it may take years to get 10,000 coins.

Stratum+tcp://ppcoin.securepayment.cc:3357 Connect to this mining pool using your Peercoin address as the username to 'solo mine' for 97% the block reward. You can use any SHA256 miner:, • cgminer.exe -o stratum+tcp://ppcoin.securepayment.cc:3357 -u WALLET -p ANYTHING • bfgminer.exe -o stratum+tcp://ppcoin.securepayment.cc:3357 -u WALLET -p ANYTHING If you happen to find a block you'll get 97% the reward. The remaining reward is donated to the pool operator. If you just want to donate hashes use anything for the username. Miner stats can be viewed. Manage your settings. Pool Stats can be viewed.