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February 21, 2015, 06:03:00 PM

Radeon 5850 cards were about $300 usd when they came out in 2009.  Very expensive back then late 2009.  Lets say the price dropped somewhat by fall 2010, bitcoin price was only like .05 so buying a card for $150-200 to mine .05 a day used more electricity than the coins it mined.  So it was still a gamble, experiment back then.

It still is a gamble, experiment. But back then there was less to loss.