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Title: Mining 12 hours/day: is it possible? Post by: Lionel on August 11, 2013, 01:51:01 PM In order to generate bitcoin, do i need to run the miner 24h/24 or i can run it for only 12 hours/day?
I suspect that when i plug off the miner, i'm interrupting the calculation in the middle and i can't resume it when i plug it on again, it will restart from the beginning. Title: Re: Mining 12 hours/day: is it possible? Post by: gmaxwell on August 11, 2013, 01:54:36 PM No, no effort is conserved when mining so none is lost when you turn it off. You do need continual connectivity to the network, but there is no need to mine 24/7. You'll just earn proportionally less. Though if you have costly mining hardware it might be wise to locate it someplace where you can mine 24/7!
Title: Re: Mining 12 hours/day: is it possible? Post by: eleuthria on August 11, 2013, 04:07:06 PM In order to generate bitcoin, do i need to run the miner 24h/24 or i can run it for only 12 hours/day? I suspect that when i plug off the miner, i'm interrupting the calculation in the middle and i can't resume it when i plug it on again, it will restart from the beginning. A miner is doing millions/billions of calculations per second (1 MHash/sec = 1,000,000 hashes per second). Bitcoin has no concept of progress or state, each hash is an independent chance to win, just like a random lottery ticket. So yes, while you will "interrupt" the calculation, what you'd interrupt is a single hash, which takes a millionth of a second or less to compute. No significant loss. Title: Re: Mining 12 hours/day: is it possible? Post by: tom_o on August 11, 2013, 06:11:37 PM In order to generate bitcoin, do i need to run the miner 24h/24 or i can run it for only 12 hours/day? I suspect that when i plug off the miner, i'm interrupting the calculation in the middle and i can't resume it when i plug it on again, it will restart from the beginning. If you run it for 24 hours you get twice as many, that's the only real concern. Title: Re: Mining 12 hours/day: is it possible? Post by: vehementchrome on August 11, 2013, 06:24:14 PM It might be more risky if you're solo mining, versus mining with a pool.
Title: Re: Mining 12 hours/day: is it possible? Post by: crazyates on August 12, 2013, 01:54:13 AM Check out CGWatcher (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=185553.0). It monitors CGMiner, and has a nice feature where you can set a schedule. It will automatically open CGMiner at a certain time, and shut it off at another certain time.
Title: Re: Mining 12 hours/day: is it possible? Post by: dell123 on August 12, 2013, 09:14:40 AM Out of curiosity why would you want to mine for 12hrs instead of 24 in a day? Hardware isn't cheap so I would imagine you'd want the highest return possible on your investment?
Title: Re: Mining 12 hours/day: is it possible? Post by: ensign_lee on August 14, 2013, 01:41:42 PM He prob just wants it to run while he's not at home and then to stop once he is.
Title: Re: Mining 12 hours/day: is it possible? Post by: ReCat on August 14, 2013, 03:35:57 PM Yes, it'll work just fine. Make sure you are using a pool.
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