Bitcoin Forum

Other => Beginners & Help => Topic started by: rushbird on November 10, 2013, 11:42:39 PM



Title: BTC Mining Sites - worth checking out?
Post by: rushbird on November 10, 2013, 11:42:39 PM
Found two sites that offer to share the mining pool. All I need is to sign in and leave the website on while the mining's in progress:

http://www.bitcoinplus.com/generate
https://50btc.com/

Just need to hear everyone's thoughts on this if whether or not I should sign up to earn BitCoins since I'm using an old PC (still runs on Windows XP).


Title: Re: BTC Mining Sites - worth checking out?
Post by: Lauda on November 10, 2013, 11:47:38 PM
I don't think that you have the necessary hardware to successfully mine bitcoin.


Title: Re: BTC Mining Sites - worth checking out?
Post by: odolvlobo on November 11, 2013, 12:42:02 AM
Found two sites that offer to share the mining pool. All I need is to sign in and leave the website on while the mining's in progress:
http://www.bitcoinplus.com/generate
https://50btc.com/
Just need to hear everyone's thoughts on this if whether or not I should sign up to earn BitCoins since I'm using an old PC (still runs on Windows XP).

You need to learn more about mining.

The first site (http://www.bitcoinplus.com) mines bitcoins in your browser using Java (if it is not a trojan). That is no longer feasible. It hasn't been for a couple years. You will spend much more money on electricity than you will ever mine on this site. On average, you will earn less than a penny a day from this site.

The second site (https://50btc.com/) is a well-known mining pool. You can connect you mining software (something like cgminer) to this site and mine with your GPU, but most people mine with ASIC miners now. Mining with your GPU will earn less than $0.10 per day on average.


Title: Re: BTC Mining Sites - worth checking out?
Post by: jajansen on November 11, 2013, 02:02:28 AM
You will spend more on electricity than what you will be earning with mining if using computing power of a normal pc, worse if old pc....


Title: Re: BTC Mining Sites - worth checking out?
Post by: Dialoz on November 11, 2013, 02:46:17 AM
http://bitcoinity.org/markets is the best, everyone should bookmark it!


Title: Re: BTC Mining Sites - worth checking out?
Post by: mjc on November 11, 2013, 04:52:44 AM
50BTC.com was recently hacked and the billing system is fouled up.  They still have about 0.9 BTC of mine and have no way to pay it out.  They will not respond to any of my requests.  They even closed my account.  I mined with them for over a year and included them in my book. 

I would not recommend them at the present time.


Title: Re: BTC Mining Sites - worth checking out?
Post by: r00762891 on November 11, 2013, 05:51:54 AM
I too was a member of 50btc...lost 1.2bitcoins with no responses. If your curious, here's the article about the hack> https://50btc.com/en/article/status_update_en


Title: Re: BTC Mining Sites - worth checking out?
Post by: dzejmsdin on November 11, 2013, 12:48:43 PM
Yeep, 50BTC is not a good idea...