Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge

Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge by sva_ on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @12:11PM (#27196710)

> Mining at a rate necessary to get any reasonable amount of Ether is a huge investment,

I started mining on my own PC a couple weeks ago, with the GPUs I already had (2x 1080ti) and made about 0.5 Ether so far. So it's definitely not impossible to get enough currency that enables you to interact or even deploy a smart contract on a consumer PC with a little bit of time.

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Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge by sschueller on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @12:41PM (#27197307)

Same goes for staking in ETH2 as you don't need 32 ETH. You can join a stake pool.

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Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge by webinvest on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @03:51PM (#27200121)

What mining software are you using?

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Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge by sva_ on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @04:28PM (#27200588)

I just use PhoenixMiner. Anything that has the feature of reducing memory latency ('-straps 2'). Getting 47 mhash/s per 1080ti with that.

I actually had to spin up a Virtual Machine with GPU passthrough to launch Windows because I couldn't get the GPU tweaks working on Linux. Really nice how vfio is now in the Linux kernel, it's been a breeze going through the setup (compared to a couple years ago when you needed a custom kernel.)

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