Mar 06, 2018 Mining on Mac How to mine Ethereum with your MacBook and eGPU graphics adapters Use your Mac and eGPU simultaneously GPUs to mine Ethereum. Anthony Casella. 6 Mar 2018 0. You can optionally download the MinerGate client that gives you an easy to use GUI. The reason why we're not using the MinerGate GUI is because it doesn't detect my eGPU. I'm pretty new to the world of Bitcoin; though, a few months back I tried mining. I had everything working, but then I stopped. Anyway, now I'd like to start up again, though I've wiped my computer and reinstalled OS X since then. I had been using a GUI (GPU) Miner, but now I have no idea how to find it.
Just how profitable is it to mine Ethereum? To properly answer this question, let’s start at the beginning: Let’s construct a hypothetical mining rig, plug in some reasonable numbers, and come up with a pragmatic analysis of how much you can earn through Ethereum mining.
Let’s also hold the price of Ethereum static. By removing any profitability from the appreciation of Ethereum from the equation, we’ll be able to correlate the actual rates of return exclusively with hardware, electricity, and any other costs associated with running a mining rig.
Our assumption set uses numbers from January of 2018 that you can see below (we have done our best to use reasonable and middle-ground numbers):