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Re:My run-in with unauthorised Litecoin mining on AWS by benatkin on Monday December 16, 2013 @12:58AM (#6913153)
I used it to mine dogecoin using those same instructions. I either had to use an older nvidia driver version or an older version of CUDAminer, though. So it wasn't that simple to set up once CUDAminer got the update that broke the newer NVidia software. This happened near the first of the month. http://doges.org/index.php?topic=43.0
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Re:My run-in with unauthorised Litecoin mining on AWS by Bootvis on Monday December 16, 2013 @07:59AM (#6914418)
Pardon my ignorance but why are you dogecoin mining?
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Re:My run-in with unauthorised Litecoin mining on AWS by freehunter on Monday December 16, 2013 @10:39AM (#6915348)
My guess: the difficulty is low enough that it's profitable to mine dogecoin and flip it for Bitcoin or Litecoin. I know a lot of altcoin miners do this, and there are some pools (middlecoin) that are geared towards this.
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Re:My run-in with unauthorised Litecoin mining on AWS by Bootvis on Monday December 16, 2013 @10:54AM (#6915477)
I'm even more amazed that there is demand for dogecoin then. I see the value of LTC and others but what is the USP of dogecoin?
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Re:My run-in with unauthorised Litecoin mining on AWS by mjhoyer on Monday December 16, 2013 @11:21AM (#6915695)
It was created as a joke altcoin, but some people actually desire it. Most likely to flip it, or just to say they own some.
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Re:My run-in with unauthorised Litecoin mining on AWS by SectioAurea on Monday December 16, 2013 @07:42PM (#6918958)
The doge brand is the USP. Most LTC clones are already largely undifferentiated, so this is actually a strong contender given it's technically almost identical to the rest.
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