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Re:The Intel Xeon E7-8800 v3 Review: The POWER8 Killer? by ghshephard on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @09:56AM (#9538918)
You probably already know this - but these CPUs would be absolutely horrible at mining bitcoins.
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Re:The Intel Xeon E7-8800 v3 Review: The POWER8 Killer? by imaginenore on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @11:49AM (#9539833)
That's why you mine altcoins and trade them for bitcoins.

http://www.coinwarz.com/cryptocurrency

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Re:The Intel Xeon E7-8800 v3 Review: The POWER8 Killer? by tromp on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @10:28AM (#9539141)
but pretty awesome at mining the cpu-friendly Cuckoo Cycle...

https://github.com/tromp/cuckoo

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