Would you guys suggest for a beginner to focus on mining solely bitcoins? Or would you say that it's smarter to mine for the other digital currencies out there?
I would say that mining bitcoins is a very bad idea for a beginner, and actually for anyone not having huge amount of money to invest into specialized hardware
and good understanding of possible risks.It is possible to mine some altcoins (for example, Monero) with CPUs, but it still requires a large farm to get a meaningful profit.
I totally back A1exander, if you don't even understand bitcoin properly or the technology it is running on, then mining is really a bad idea. You will have to learn about Hashrates, good ASIC miners with great ROI, how to sustain a mining setup and so on, So in short please stay away from mining for now. But do visit the mining section here on this forum, you will find tons of valuable information regarding mining.
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