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al2o3cr
FWIW, 31.2TH/s of Bitcoin mining will bring in about $62 a month on average.

Whether that covers the cost of the 877 kWh of power it uses to do that (1200W * 1 month) depends on your local electricity prices...

digitalsushi
Well in sunny New Hampshire, USA, I think I'm paying about 22 cents per kilowatt hour, delivered, so that would be quite a foolish endeavor for me to understake. And I'm fairly sure for most people in other states.

But if you were paying 6 cents, then perhaps ...

Gare
4 eurocents at night (7PM-7AM) in Croatia :)
paulgb
Is this an elaborate scam? Anyone can pay to publish a press release, and it's not clear to me how much due diligence the companies that publish them do. The site is not on the regular TP Link site, and their news section[1] has no mention about it despite covering similar launches.

[1] https://www.tp-link.com/us/press/news/

mhio
Searching for the address on the Contact Us page returns a plethora of what look like template sites

Note that the contact us address isn't the TPLink address presented on all the other pages of that site.

tromp
More like a Crypto ASIC miner with integrated router, considering where the large majority of the price and the energy use goes...