What is the best way to utilise $10K worth of free servers for an year?

Re:What is the best way to utilise $10K worth of free server... by cocotino on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @03:12PM (#12003935)

Why not?

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Re:What is the best way to utilise $10K worth of free server... by mastermojo on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @03:18PM (#12003993)

It's not very efficient compared to specialized mining hardware. I haven't done the math but your return will probably be <<1% of the credits.

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Re:What is the best way to utilise $10K worth of free server... by cocotino on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @03:21PM (#12004039)

Well, it's free servers, so whatever he can get out of them will be good.

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Re:What is the best way to utilise $10K worth of free server... by popey456963 on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @04:19PM (#12004490)

I believe (from rumours of friends) that most servers actually ban bitcoin mining on their system anyway.

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Re:What is the best way to utilise $10K worth of free server... by smilingtom on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @05:03PM (#12004798)

Only the naive believe something is "free"

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Re:What is the best way to utilise $10K worth of free server... by intrepidkarthi on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @03:28PM (#12004105)

I can run two machines with 64GB RAM & 20 Core CPUs for the whole year 24/7. Do you still think the return will be less than 1%? I am just wondering how others do mining.

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Re:What is the best way to utilise $10K worth of free server... by Lan on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @03:58PM (#12004341)

Bitcoin mining is done with clusters of specially designed ASICs these days. GPU mining, let alone CPU mining, isn't viable by a long shot. I'd be shocked if you got any payout at all from a mining pool with it.

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Re:What is the best way to utilise $10K worth of free server... by pigeons on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @08:05PM (#12005769)

Much much less than 1%

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