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Altcoin Mining

discombobulate · 2017-05-25 08:46:05

With the current boom in crypto currencies is anyone currently doing any mining. I know for the likes of Bitcoin and Ethereum the ship has sailed for trying to do this from home but are there any others that could be mined using a basic 1GB GPU on a PC. Not expecting to make anything much but more as a little project to…

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25-05-2017 9:46am

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With the current boom in crypto currencies is anyone currently doing any mining. I know for the likes of Bitcoin and Ethereum the ship has sailed for trying to do this from home but are there any others that could be mined using a basic 1GB GPU on a PC. Not expecting to make anything much but more as a little project to gain a bit of knowledge.

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#2 25-05-2017 1:45pm
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Electricity is crazy expensive compared to the farms in China etc. No real point, spend a few euro a week on buying coins instead.

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