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Re:Why Monero by akimball on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @07:22AM (#28523031)
GPU and CPU miners are roughly equal in mining utility on the Monero chain. FPGAs and ASICS are disadvantaged by the memory bandwidth requirements of the RandomX algorithm
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Re:Why Monero by galangalalgol on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @07:44AM (#28523229)
Since posting I poked around on Reddit and it seems many are mining other currencies to trade for monero (cross-mining?), and that mining monero directly may already be close to break even on electrical costs.
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