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Title: Apart from cpu and gpu, what else Can I mine with?
Post by: pzycho010 on May 17, 2017, 04:59:45 PM
I understand we can mine using cpus and gpus. Is there any other miners apart from this two that is available? Maybe motherboard mining, harddisk mining, mouse click mining? Haha


Title: Re: Apart from cpu and gpu, what else Can I mine with?
Post by: miner417 on May 17, 2017, 05:06:39 PM
Not exactly mining, but there are coins such as Siacoin and Storj that you can use Hard drive space for. Pretty much you're selling space on your hard drive for the coins. For the most part it's not that profitable, but it's doable, and if you hold the coin for some pumps, it can be decent at least.


Title: Re: Apart from cpu and gpu, what else Can I mine with?
Post by: macsheadroom on May 17, 2017, 06:53:04 PM
Yes all those and then some have been discussed, tried or done for years now, you can even mine with paper and pencil if your inclined to do so. ASIC is the mining end game for some coins others are designed to be mined only on CPU's or HDD's. GPU's are used because they can mine most coins and are readily available.

I am curious if and when we can mine with one of these bleeding edge boxes;)

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/dgx-1/ (https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/dgx-1/)


Title: Re: Apart from cpu and gpu, what else Can I mine with?
Post by: 666mrga999 on May 17, 2017, 07:04:54 PM
Yes all those and then some have been discussed, tried or done for years now, you can even mine with paper and pencil if your inclined to do so. ASIC is the mining end game for some coins others are designed to be mined only on CPU's or HDD's. GPU's are used because they can mine most coins and are readily available.

I am curious if and when we can mine with one of these bleeding edge boxes;)

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/dgx-1/ (https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/dgx-1/)


Would be epick, but I think you can buy a whole mining farm for that kind of money. XD


Title: Re: Apart from cpu and gpu, what else Can I mine with?
Post by: CjMapope on May 17, 2017, 07:15:41 PM
I understand we can mine using cpus and gpus. Is there any other miners apart from this two that is available? Maybe motherboard mining, harddisk mining, mouse click mining? Haha

"Mouse click mining"  -- https://faucet.raiblockscommunity.net     (manual mining ;p )
HDD mining -- https://www.burst-team.us/ 

you can also use FPGAs to mine coins that don't have GPU miner progs yet :)

There's almost a coin to use everypart in your PC by now, make sure check out "Curecoin" & Gridcoin as well for a different kind of mining (still cpu+gpu, but intresting WAY its done with those 2 coins)