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Bitcoin => Mining => Topic started by: Mickster on May 17, 2012, 03:12:58 PM



Title: Uses for now unprofitable Bitcoin miner?
Post by: Mickster on May 17, 2012, 03:12:58 PM
Hello,

unfortuantley, due to electrcity cost my rig is no longer prfitable  :( . Besides mining for fun, what are some other cool and/or profitable things to do with it?


Title: Re: Uses for now unprofitable Bitcoin miner?
Post by: swissmate on May 17, 2012, 03:21:45 PM
gaming and heating your house in winter


Title: Re: Uses for now unprofitable Bitcoin miner?
Post by: kibblesnbits on May 17, 2012, 03:37:13 PM
Password decryption:

Google "oclHashcat-plus"



Title: Re: Uses for now unprofitable Bitcoin miner?
Post by: DeathAndTaxes on May 17, 2012, 04:09:15 PM
Whitepixel is better optimized towards AMD GPUs.

http://whitepixel.zorinaq.com/


Title: Re: Uses for now unprofitable Bitcoin miner?
Post by: Gabi on May 18, 2012, 09:49:44 PM
Distributed computing:

http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/

http://boinc.thesonntags.com/collatz/

http://moowrap.net/

and more, but these 3 works very well on ATI


Title: Re: Uses for now unprofitable Bitcoin miner?
Post by: arklan on May 19, 2012, 09:56:22 PM
alternatively, could offer the rig for sale.


Title: Re: Uses for now unprofitable Bitcoin miner?
Post by: oldDirty on May 20, 2012, 12:03:58 AM
Distributed computing:

http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/

http://boinc.thesonntags.com/collatz/

http://moowrap.net/

and more, but these 3 works very well on ATI
I do it long time and a can say, totaly worthless. Boinc c/o Subprojects can start to give a little fee to the cruncher, like Bitcoins.


Title: Re: Uses for now unprofitable Bitcoin miner?
Post by: terrytibbs on May 20, 2012, 12:04:44 AM
decryption
.......


Title: Re: Uses for now unprofitable Bitcoin miner?
Post by: westkybitcoins on May 20, 2012, 12:43:17 AM
Sell vanity addresses.

It was recently discussed on the forums (I'd have to look it up) that it's not too difficult to have someone request a vanity address and you produce it in a way where you don't have access to the private key.

If you actually get this setup, let us know, there seems to be quite a demand for this.


Title: Re: Uses for now unprofitable Bitcoin miner?
Post by: kibblesnbits on May 20, 2012, 07:16:48 PM
Whitepixel is better optimized towards AMD GPUs.

http://whitepixel.zorinaq.com/


Maybe so but only MD5 is supported? Correct?


Title: Re: Uses for now unprofitable Bitcoin miner?
Post by: goxed on May 20, 2012, 09:01:51 PM
Hello,

electrcity cost

How much are you paying for your electricity?