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Alternate cryptocurrencies => Mining (Altcoins) => Topic started by: bluesclues on December 06, 2015, 01:23:52 AM



Title: Miner Question?
Post by: bluesclues on December 06, 2015, 01:23:52 AM
Can I use a BTC miner in order to mine other coins such as BCN?  I like the miners for the BTC, but they are just to slow to make a profit in my opinion, so I figured I might buy one for the purpose of mining some other type of coin.  I have done some basic research and it seems like there are no real sure answers that make sense to me, so please dumb it down for me.  Thanks for the advise.


Title: Re: Miner Question?
Post by: P4ndoraBox7 on December 06, 2015, 01:39:02 AM
no.

BCN coin use a unique algorithm // CryptoNight // and Bitcoin use // SHA-256 //


Title: Re: Miner Question?
Post by: P4ndoraBox7 on December 06, 2015, 02:05:04 AM
from what I found...it seems they are only CPU mining.

https://minergate.com/


Title: Re: Miner Question?
Post by: Hutalar on December 06, 2015, 08:53:51 AM
from what I found...it seems they are only CPU mining.

https://minergate.com/

You can use GPU to mine them. Both AMD and nVidia GPU can. Claymore has a fast GPU miner version.