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Re:Bitcoin mining becomes unprofitable as BTC price falls to... by forgotpwd16 on Sunday June 19, 2022 @03:46AM (#31797167)
There're cryptocoins other than BTC. Ethereum and Monero are two that are popular and GPU profitable.
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Re:Bitcoin mining becomes unprofitable as BTC price falls to... by droidist2 on Sunday June 19, 2022 @06:33AM (#31798069)
Aren't all their prices pretty correlated though? When Bitcoin falls like this, the altcoins do too.
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Re:Bitcoin mining becomes unprofitable as BTC price falls to... by jstanley on Sunday June 19, 2022 @07:49AM (#31798436)
Even if there were a fixed peg between cryptocurrencies, that still wouldn't imply that GPU-mining BTC is just as good as GPU-mining other cryptocurrencies.
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