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Title: best OS for bitcoin mining?
Post by: miningDwarf on November 24, 2013, 11:11:55 AM
Which is best of bellow mentioned for btc mining:

CentOS Linux   
Debian Linux   
Ubuntu Linux
Windows
OS X


Title: Re: best OS for bitcoin mining?
Post by: dziub_dziubek on November 24, 2013, 11:20:53 AM
GNU/Linux in console mode, e.g. Ubuntu server. But no cpu and gpu btc mining;)


Title: Re: best OS for bitcoin mining?
Post by: blacksails on November 24, 2013, 11:22:20 AM
Yeah, some linux distro. The less system resources it takes, the better! But you're a bit late for bitcoin mining. Why not try some alt-coin?


Title: Re: best OS for bitcoin mining?
Post by: miningDwarf on November 24, 2013, 11:26:11 AM
Yeah, some linux distro. The less system resources it takes, the better! But you're a bit late for bitcoin mining. Why not try some alt-coin?

why i am too late for bcoin mining?
according to calculations with 50ghz i should make 1 btc/month


Title: Re: best OS for bitcoin mining?
Post by: KrisTester on November 24, 2013, 11:35:27 AM
Difficulty is getting higher. It's not profitable to mine BTC.


Title: Re: best OS for bitcoin mining?
Post by: bitcoin44me on November 24, 2013, 11:39:32 AM
OS does not really matters, equipment matters ...


Title: Re: best OS for bitcoin mining?
Post by: bitcoinminer11794591 on November 24, 2013, 11:39:47 AM
Which linux distro do people use the most?


Title: Re: best OS for bitcoin mining?
Post by: miningDwarf on November 24, 2013, 11:40:55 AM
what is alt coin?

as i understand btc coin is this long 0.000000
and alt coins goes after . all 0 ? right?


Title: Re: best OS for bitcoin mining?
Post by: PenAndPaper on November 24, 2013, 11:45:26 AM
Which is best of bellow mentioned for btc mining:

CentOS Linux   
Debian Linux   
Ubuntu Linux
Windows
OS X

Doesn't make any difference since you can only mine with asics now. Not that it made any difference before that anyway  :P


Title: Re: best OS for bitcoin mining?
Post by: miningDwarf on November 24, 2013, 11:47:51 AM
Which is best of bellow mentioned for btc mining:

CentOS Linux   
Debian Linux   
Ubuntu Linux
Windows
OS X

Doesn't make any difference since you can only mine with asics now. Not that it made any difference before that anyway  :P

so the alt coins what they are?


Title: Re: best OS for bitcoin mining?
Post by: blacksails on November 24, 2013, 11:55:47 AM
Yeah, some linux distro. The less system resources it takes, the better! But you're a bit late for bitcoin mining. Why not try some alt-coin?

why i am too late for bcoin mining?
according to calculations with 50ghz i should make 1 btc/month
Yeah, but the difficult almost doubles every month. And first you have to buy expensive mining tools, wait for them to arrive, and by that time the difficult has increased so much you can't possibly break even. And even if you have it now you still have to pay electricity.
Sure, you might break even, and maybe even make some profit, but that won't be much. But if you decide to mine it's good for the network though.

so the alt coins what they are?
Alternative coins. If you want to use an ASIC you have to stick to the sha-256 coins for example TerraCoin (same algorithm as Bitcoin).
Then you have script coins, with Litecoin as the biggest and feather coin and such things. You can't mine these with ASIC miners, so you have to use GPU. Your best shot is to find some scrypt-coin with low difficult and mine these. It's still risky though.
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/List_of_alternative_cryptocurrencies


Title: Re: best OS for bitcoin mining?
Post by: miningDwarf on November 24, 2013, 12:08:19 PM
Yeah, some linux distro. The less system resources it takes, the better! But you're a bit late for bitcoin mining. Why not try some alt-coin?

why i am too late for bcoin mining?
according to calculations with 50ghz i should make 1 btc/month
Yeah, but the difficult almost doubles every month. And first you have to buy expensive mining tools, wait for them to arrive, and by that time the difficult has increased so much you can't possibly break even. And even if you have it now you still have to pay electricity.
Sure, you might break even, and maybe even make some profit, but that won't be much. But if you decide to mine it's good for the network though.

so the alt coins what they are?
Alternative coins. If you want to use an ASIC you have to stick to the sha-256 coins for example TerraCoin (same algorithm as Bitcoin).
Then you have script coins, with Litecoin as the biggest and feather coin and such things. You can't mine these with ASIC miners, so you have to use GPU. Your best shot is to find some scrypt-coin with low difficult and mine these. It's still risky though.
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/List_of_alternative_cryptocurrencies

1.Yeah but what if I rent 3 dedicated servers, 16ghz each and I would pay for all 3 servers like 130e per month and I dont have to pay any other things like electricity or any other. Would that be possible?


Title: Re: best OS for bitcoin mining?
Post by: blacksails on November 24, 2013, 12:17:39 PM
Yeah, some linux distro. The less system resources it takes, the better! But you're a bit late for bitcoin mining. Why not try some alt-coin?

why i am too late for bcoin mining?
according to calculations with 50ghz i should make 1 btc/month
Yeah, but the difficult almost doubles every month. And first you have to buy expensive mining tools, wait for them to arrive, and by that time the difficult has increased so much you can't possibly break even. And even if you have it now you still have to pay electricity.
Sure, you might break even, and maybe even make some profit, but that won't be much. But if you decide to mine it's good for the network though.

so the alt coins what they are?
Alternative coins. If you want to use an ASIC you have to stick to the sha-256 coins for example TerraCoin (same algorithm as Bitcoin).
Then you have script coins, with Litecoin as the biggest and feather coin and such things. You can't mine these with ASIC miners, so you have to use GPU. Your best shot is to find some scrypt-coin with low difficult and mine these. It's still risky though.
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/List_of_alternative_cryptocurrencies

1.Yeah but what if I rent 3 dedicated servers, 16ghz each and I would pay for all 3 servers like 130e per month and I dont have to pay any other things like electricity or any other. Would that be possible?
If it costs 130€ for all three it probably is! Just watch out for big difficult raises! :)


Title: Re: best OS for bitcoin mining?
Post by: bitcoin44me on November 24, 2013, 12:19:13 PM
what is alt coin?

as i understand btc coin is this long 0.000000
and alt coins goes after . all 0 ? right?

No, bitcoin has is this long : 0.00000001 btc = 1 satoshi.

Altcoins are other coins like LTC, and so on. They have nothing to do with btc. They are different ...


Title: Re: best OS for bitcoin mining?
Post by: miningDwarf on November 24, 2013, 12:25:11 PM
Yeah, some linux distro. The less system resources it takes, the better! But you're a bit late for bitcoin mining. Why not try some alt-coin?

why i am too late for bcoin mining?
according to calculations with 50ghz i should make 1 btc/month
Yeah, but the difficult almost doubles every month. And first you have to buy expensive mining tools, wait for them to arrive, and by that time the difficult has increased so much you can't possibly break even. And even if you have it now you still have to pay electricity.
Sure, you might break even, and maybe even make some profit, but that won't be much. But if you decide to mine it's good for the network though.

so the alt coins what they are?
Alternative coins. If you want to use an ASIC you have to stick to the sha-256 coins for example TerraCoin (same algorithm as Bitcoin).
Then you have script coins, with Litecoin as the biggest and feather coin and such things. You can't mine these with ASIC miners, so you have to use GPU. Your best shot is to find some scrypt-coin with low difficult and mine these. It's still risky though.
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/List_of_alternative_cryptocurrencies

1.Yeah but what if I rent 3 dedicated servers, 16ghz each and I would pay for all 3 servers like 130e per month and I dont have to pay any other things like electricity or any other. Would that be possible?
If it costs 130€ for all three it probably is! Just watch out for big difficult raises! :)
1.can you recommend good mining software?
2.and by the way how do i set gpu via dedicated server?


Title: Re: best OS for bitcoin mining?
Post by: blacksails on November 24, 2013, 12:33:35 PM
Yeah, some linux distro. The less system resources it takes, the better! But you're a bit late for bitcoin mining. Why not try some alt-coin?

why i am too late for bcoin mining?
according to calculations with 50ghz i should make 1 btc/month
Yeah, but the difficult almost doubles every month. And first you have to buy expensive mining tools, wait for them to arrive, and by that time the difficult has increased so much you can't possibly break even. And even if you have it now you still have to pay electricity.
Sure, you might break even, and maybe even make some profit, but that won't be much. But if you decide to mine it's good for the network though.

so the alt coins what they are?
Alternative coins. If you want to use an ASIC you have to stick to the sha-256 coins for example TerraCoin (same algorithm as Bitcoin).
Then you have script coins, with Litecoin as the biggest and feather coin and such things. You can't mine these with ASIC miners, so you have to use GPU. Your best shot is to find some scrypt-coin with low difficult and mine these. It's still risky though.
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/List_of_alternative_cryptocurrencies

1.Yeah but what if I rent 3 dedicated servers, 16ghz each and I would pay for all 3 servers like 130e per month and I dont have to pay any other things like electricity or any other. Would that be possible?
If it costs 130€ for all three it probably is! Just watch out for big difficult raises! :)
1.can you recommend good mining software?
2.and by the way how do i set gpu via dedicated server?
Sorry, I don't really know the technical parts :(


Title: Re: best OS for bitcoin mining?
Post by: miningDwarf on November 24, 2013, 12:49:43 PM
Anyone know this info?

1.can you recommend good mining software(program) like guiminer but something else maybe?
2.and by the way how do i set gpu via dedicated server?

Please I need this info


Title: Re: best OS for bitcoin mining?
Post by: georgeboot on November 24, 2013, 01:02:44 PM
I think it Will be windows. For best mining performance you will need the best drivers for your GPS, which are at the moment only for windows.


Title: Re: best OS for bitcoin mining?
Post by: dupee419 on November 24, 2013, 01:31:38 PM
linux is the way. DO NOT use OpenSuSe. I use it and the biggest issue with suse is that some of the dependencies for various coins are hard as hell to find.

I suggest Arch Linux or Ubuntu for mining purposes. Use ubuntu if you've never run linux before.


Title: Re: best OS for bitcoin mining?
Post by: dupee419 on November 24, 2013, 01:32:29 PM
I think it Will be windows. For best mining performance you will need the best drivers for your GPS, which are at the moment only for windows.

not true. up to date linux drivers are available from AMD and incredibly easy to install.


Title: Re: best OS for bitcoin mining?
Post by: AuroraHF on November 24, 2013, 01:32:47 PM
If you fancy a GUI, use Windows.
If you're experienced with Linux, Linux would be the best.

Make sure you're not mining on CPU / GPU for Bitcoins else it'll be useless.


Title: Re: best OS for bitcoin mining?
Post by: miningDwarf on November 24, 2013, 01:39:40 PM
If you fancy a GUI, use Windows.
If you're experienced with Linux, Linux would be the best.

Make sure you're not mining on CPU / GPU for Bitcoins else it'll be useless.

aight so if I mine with linux i cant mine on cpu or gpu , ammm what should i mine on?


Title: Re: best OS for bitcoin mining?
Post by: MrCoin on November 24, 2013, 01:53:14 PM
Minepeon and raspberry pi?
http://minepeon.com/index.php/Main_Page (http://minepeon.com/index.php/Main_Page)


Title: Re: best OS for bitcoin mining?
Post by: dupee419 on November 24, 2013, 01:53:50 PM
If you fancy a GUI, use Windows.
If you're experienced with Linux, Linux would be the best.

Make sure you're not mining on CPU / GPU for Bitcoins else it'll be useless.

aight so if I mine with linux i cant mine on cpu or gpu , ammm what should i mine on?

You can mine with either your gpu or cpu in linux. I think AuroraHF meant mining bitcoin without an ASIC is pointless


Title: Re: best OS for bitcoin mining?
Post by: MrCoin on November 24, 2013, 02:15:56 PM
GPU mining is pointless at the current difficulty ..
You can either buy an ASIC Miner for a lot of money, or you can use cloud-Miner such as cex.io
https://cex.io/r/0/1JysRFhk7FQRktYWbfHxBPCAwEg2FECYiJ/0/ (https://cex.io/r/0/1JysRFhk7FQRktYWbfHxBPCAwEg2FECYiJ/0/)