PriitV (OP)
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Hello.
I have been looking into and reading about cryptocurrencies for a few weeks now and decided to "give it a whirl". At the moment I have only dabbled in faucets (I understand that this is not "profitable", even "pointless" some might say, but nevertheless) and have earned my first couple cryptos (LTC and DGE so far). I have also looked into the mining part and from what I understand, using a laptop (as I don't own a PC myself) to mine would be suicidal due to overheating.
Basicly, what I want to know is - how hard is it to install a miner on a PC (as i have never done that before) and would it be possible to configure a miner to use low amounts of resources? I am thinking maybe to install a miner in my PC at work but would configure it so it would not critically halt my work, if that is possible.
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odolvlobo
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May 23, 2016, 06:21:12 PM |
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Basicly, what I want to know is - how hard is it to install a miner on a PC (as i have never done that before) and would it be possible to configure a miner to use low amounts of resources? I am thinking maybe to install a miner in my PC at work but would configure it so it would not critically halt my work, if that is possible.
Mining Bitcoin on a PC is a waste of time. You will mine only a couple of dollars worth of bitcoin in a year and you will pay much more than that for electricity. |
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May 23, 2016, 06:21:19 PM |
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Not worth to mine on PC even high spec. Time goes by the PC will dead, the difficult of mining bitcoin is increased. Better to use hardware mining. Or mining altcoin if you want to mining from PC.
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unholycactus
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May 23, 2016, 07:45:03 PM |
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Anything Bitcoin related, you will need an ASIC to mine efficiently.
It is possible to mine other coins using your GPU, assuming it's an AMD one. Nvidia won't work well.
It is also possible to limit the resources you're using (using 1 core out of 4 (CPU) for example, or half the cores on your GPU).
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May 23, 2016, 09:01:03 PM |
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Hello.
I have been looking into and reading about cryptocurrencies for a few weeks now and decided to "give it a whirl". At the moment I have only dabbled in faucets (I understand that this is not "profitable", even "pointless" some might say, but nevertheless) and have earned my first couple cryptos (LTC and DGE so far). I have also looked into the mining part and from what I understand, using a laptop (as I don't own a PC myself) to mine would be suicidal due to overheating.
Basicly, what I want to know is - how hard is it to install a miner on a PC (as i have never done that before) and would it be possible to configure a miner to use low amounts of resources? I am thinking maybe to install a miner in my PC at work but would configure it so it would not critically halt my work, if that is possible.
you need to mine an alt coin. here is my thread on the hottest alt coin ie ETH coin https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1429151.0Where do you live? USA, overseas, Canada. What is you power cost? 10 cents a kwatt is good for Eth coin not so much BTC coin. |
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PriitV (OP)
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May 24, 2016, 07:58:02 PM |
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Hello.
I have been looking into and reading about cryptocurrencies for a few weeks now and decided to "give it a whirl". At the moment I have only dabbled in faucets (I understand that this is not "profitable", even "pointless" some might say, but nevertheless) and have earned my first couple cryptos (LTC and DGE so far). I have also looked into the mining part and from what I understand, using a laptop (as I don't own a PC myself) to mine would be suicidal due to overheating.
Basicly, what I want to know is - how hard is it to install a miner on a PC (as i have never done that before) and would it be possible to configure a miner to use low amounts of resources? I am thinking maybe to install a miner in my PC at work but would configure it so it would not critically halt my work, if that is possible.
you need to mine an alt coin. here is my thread on the hottest alt coin ie ETH coin https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1429151.0Where do you live? USA, overseas, Canada. What is you power cost? 10 cents a kwatt is good for Eth coin not so much BTC coin. I live overseas and like I said - I wouldn't be paying for the electricity as I would use the computer AT WORK to mine. I have come to a conclusion that I would not mine bitcoin due to the difficulty. Can someone answer my question tho? Is it possible to configure a miner to work at lower intensity so the PC would still be usable in a working environment? |
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May 24, 2016, 10:49:36 PM |
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Hello.
I have been looking into and reading about cryptocurrencies for a few weeks now and decided to "give it a whirl". At the moment I have only dabbled in faucets (I understand that this is not "profitable", even "pointless" some might say, but nevertheless) and have earned my first couple cryptos (LTC and DGE so far). I have also looked into the mining part and from what I understand, using a laptop (as I don't own a PC myself) to mine would be suicidal due to overheating.
Basicly, what I want to know is - how hard is it to install a miner on a PC (as i have never done that before) and would it be possible to configure a miner to use low amounts of resources? I am thinking maybe to install a miner in my PC at work but would configure it so it would not critically halt my work, if that is possible.
you need to mine an alt coin. here is my thread on the hottest alt coin ie ETH coin https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1429151.0Where do you live? USA, overseas, Canada. What is you power cost? 10 cents a kwatt is good for Eth coin not so much BTC coin. I live overseas and like I said - I wouldn't be paying for the electricity as I would use the computer AT WORK to mine. I have come to a conclusion that I would not mine bitcoin due to the difficulty. Can someone answer my question tho? Is it possible to configure a miner to work at lower intensity so the PC would still be usable in a working environment? Horrible idea mining at work I'm guessing without permission. You will be found out as computers will be slower, and most likely fired. I seriously doubt you find someone willing to help you configure "work at lower intensity so the PC would still be usable" as it sounds like you are trying to load without permission. And forgetting all of that there just are no CPU coins worth mining. It would be GPU coins... which most work places do not have big GPU's it likely is something on the motherboard with little power. |
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May 25, 2016, 05:50:32 AM |
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like it was said many times
no electricity to pay, then everything is profitable, mining is worth it no matter what you do, you will eventually roi
yes right now etheruem is better, but with free electricity you can also try to mine bitcoin directly with a s7 or something cheaper since you don't pay your power
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PriitV (OP)
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May 25, 2016, 06:25:09 PM |
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Hello.
I have been looking into and reading about cryptocurrencies for a few weeks now and decided to "give it a whirl". At the moment I have only dabbled in faucets (I understand that this is not "profitable", even "pointless" some might say, but nevertheless) and have earned my first couple cryptos (LTC and DGE so far). I have also looked into the mining part and from what I understand, using a laptop (as I don't own a PC myself) to mine would be suicidal due to overheating.
Basicly, what I want to know is - how hard is it to install a miner on a PC (as i have never done that before) and would it be possible to configure a miner to use low amounts of resources? I am thinking maybe to install a miner in my PC at work but would configure it so it would not critically halt my work, if that is possible.
you need to mine an alt coin. here is my thread on the hottest alt coin ie ETH coin https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1429151.0Where do you live? USA, overseas, Canada. What is you power cost? 10 cents a kwatt is good for Eth coin not so much BTC coin. I live overseas and like I said - I wouldn't be paying for the electricity as I would use the computer AT WORK to mine. I have come to a conclusion that I would not mine bitcoin due to the difficulty. Can someone answer my question tho? Is it possible to configure a miner to work at lower intensity so the PC would still be usable in a working environment? Horrible idea mining at work I'm guessing without permission. You will be found out as computers will be slower, and most likely fired. I seriously doubt you find someone willing to help you configure "work at lower intensity so the PC would still be usable" as it sounds like you are trying to load without permission. And forgetting all of that there just are no CPU coins worth mining. It would be GPU coins... which most work places do not have big GPU's it likely is something on the motherboard with little power. Don't worry about the part of being found out etc, that is not a problem. Can it be done though? Using low resources? It's free electricity for me, so i would have no costs anyway. |
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May 25, 2016, 09:16:17 PM |
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minergate would probably suit your needs OP
Mine some of the shit coins on there and sell them on Polinex for Bitcoin. The coins are CPU freindly meaning GPU doesn't have as big of an advantage. You'll still probably be mining at a loss, meaning electric costs more than you'll make. But it's easy to start and get a few satashi's and getting to try mining out. Probably more profitable than faucets. If you decide to keep mining there are more profitable coins, even CPU coins but minergate is newbie friendly so that's why I recommend them just to start.
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