Lets quickly do the math on this.<p>At the time of writing, Litecoin is at $23.50 and Bitstamp is showing Bitcoin at $821.<p>The cost of the lowest service is 0.75BTC pa, which works out to be $615.75 per year.<p>615.75/23.50 = 26.2021276596<p>At a rate of 0.5 MH/s, we're looking at 0.12406948 LTC a day[1] at the current network difficulty.<p>So, to mine 26.2021276596 LTC, it would take us 211.1891470779115 days. That came out a lot quicker than I thought it would, but still an exorbitant amount of time.<p>LTC is not my interest or strong point, so if there are any errors, please let me know so I can correct them.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.litecoinpool.org/calc?hashrate=500&difficulty=3891.34232183&power=&energycost=0.10&currency=USD" rel="nofollow">https://www.litecoinpool.org/calc?hashrate=500&difficulty=38...</a>