Measuring what idle hardware earns: a VPS, a GPU and a Raspberry Pi tested

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The author checked three idle machines to see whether they could earn money, expecting a clear ranking. A rented VPS turned out to be barred from crypto mining under its providers' terms, and the estimated yield would not cover its rent anyway. A desktop RTX 5060 Ti could mine a small coin for about 0.99 USD a day gross, but German electricity costs made the result marginal or negative depending on power draw. Renting the same GPU out roughly broke even after power costs. The Raspberry Pi 1 was the one machine where the outcome was a small, modest win.

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