Animica rig comparison (mine or render)

Overview

Buy this before spending money on GPUs for Animica, or when choosing which of several boxes to point here. POST an array of candidate rigs — gpu_model, hashrate_hps, power_w, cost_usd, vram_gb — and get them RANKED by net Animica return against live network state: the per-block reward from the node's own block template (not the published subsidy split, which overstates the miner's slice by 2x on mainnet), the measured block interval, live difficulty, and the ANM/USD bid. Per rig you get ANM/day, USD/day gross and NET of power, break-even electricity price, payback days from cost_usd, and USD/day per $1,000 of capital. Every rig ALSO gets its best non-PoW Animica use: which marketplace media kinds its VRAM clears (floors parsed live from the reference miner client, never remembered) crossed against a live census of how many GPU miners serve each kind — so a card that loses on hashrate can still win because it is the only supplier for a kind nobody serves. Rendering gets no USD figure on purpose: no job-arrival rate is published and inventing one would be the only fabricated number here. Deterministic, no model called, optional ML-DSA-65 attestation binding the ranking to a chain height. Node, renderer census or price feed unreachable: 503 with the reason, NOT charged.

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