user15796: I have a friend who tells me she mines $40 worth of PPC per day per machine.  She has around 5  Cointerra ASIC servers working all day long.  One server is part of a pool.
I don't know enough about the rates.  But to me, it sounds very unlikely.  
Is this, in fact, possible?

user12034: It would take around 1.6 TH/s to mine that as BTC and then exchange it, or 2 TH/s to mine that much PPC (not counting minting the PPC that you're mining, which is supposed to work out to 1% per year).
Cointerra sells a 1.6 TH/s miner for $3,500. With this $17,500 investment (plus any computers, electricity, maintenance, time, etc. associated with that), yes, she is mining $200/day on average currently (but ever-decreasing as the difficulty goes up), subject to market volatility. If only one is part of a pool and the rest are solo mining, that means she's taking the chance that she might never get anything of value from those 4 servers. That is a pretty high stakes gamble, if you ask me.

15796: <p>I have a friend who tells me she mines $40 worth of PPC per day per machine.  She has around 5  Cointerra ASIC servers working all day long.  One server is part of a pool.</p>

<p>I don't know enough about the rates.  But to me, it sounds very unlikely.  </p>

<p>Is this, in fact, possible?</p>
 12034: <p>It would take <a href="http://www.bitcoinx.com/profit/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">around 1.6 TH/s</a> to mine that as BTC and then exchange it, or 2 TH/s to mine <a href="http://www.coinwarz.com/calculators/peercoin-mining-calculator/?h=2000&amp;p=500.00&amp;pc=0.10&amp;pf=0.00&amp;d=172827508.00576200&amp;r=87.20740256&amp;er=0.00470000&amp;btcer=448.57000000&amp;hc=0.00" rel="nofollow noreferrer">that much PPC</a> (not counting minting the PPC that you're mining, which is supposed to work out to 1% per year).</p>

<p>Cointerra sells a <a href="https://cointerra.com/product/terraminer-iv-1-6-ths-bitcoin-miner/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">1.6 TH/s miner</a> for $3,500. With this $17,500 investment (plus any computers, electricity, maintenance, time, etc. associated with that), yes, she is mining $200/day on average currently (but ever-decreasing as the difficulty goes up), subject to market volatility. If only one is part of a pool and the rest are solo mining, that means she's taking the chance that she might never get anything of value from those 4 servers. That is a pretty high stakes <a href="https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/25244/12034">gamble</a>, if you ask me.</p>
