Re:Bitcoin Block 840000
by px43 on Friday April 19, 2024 @09:01PM
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No, GPUs are literally millions of times less power performant than equivalent ASICs for sha256 mining. In the GPU days, mining was talked about in terms of megahashes per second, and ASIC miners these days are talked about in terms of terrahashes per second.
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Re:Bitcoin Block 840000
by ProllyInfamous on Friday April 19, 2024 @10:39PM
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>In the GPU days...
Back in my earliest days, a CPU could mine bitcoin (it was just a check/enable box in the preferences).
HODL, erryday, frens.
I remember when the first GPU kernels came out... exciting times!
Unrealized gains are unrealized.
Re:Bitcoin Block 840000
by ProllyInfamous on Friday April 19, 2024 @11:11PM
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Amen... I only vaguely recall something about a boating accident.
Yeah I was mining hundreds of BTC per day on an Athlon 2200. That was the low kilohash era.
Re:Bitcoin Block 840000
by chubbyFIREthrwy on Saturday April 20, 2024 @12:54PM
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I made my fortune by building a GPU miner in January 2011. Even by then, the best GPU for it was sold out so I bought 4 of the next best one.
I shut it down in July of that year because it was raising my electric bill by like $100/month. Possibly the biggest financial mistake of my life.
Re:Bitcoin Block 840000
by ProllyInfamous on Monday April 22, 2024 @01:52PM
(#40116840)
I partially heat my 900sqft SFH mining monero... since [compared to resistive space heater usage-offset] there is no additional energy usage, it's effectively free crypto.
Of course this means you can only earn half of the year. Mine ejects its heat under desk toes.