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90 questions linked to/from In the ASIC-age, is it worth starting mining Bitcoin at home?
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How much Bitcoin will I mine right now with hardware X?
Say I have a given piece of hardware (CPU/GPU). Where can I find out how much Bitcoin will I mine per day?
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Is CPU mining even worth it? [duplicate]
I would like to start mining, but my GPU isn't the greatest and I don't really want to spend the money on a dedicated rig. Is mining from my CPU (in a Linux environment) still worth it? Or will I not ...
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I am new to Bitcoin, how can I get started?
I am new to both StackExchange and to the new online currency called Bitcoin. I understand what Bitcoin is and how it works, but I was wondering: how do you actually get started with Bitcoin? I have ...
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How can I start mining Bitcoin?
Ok. I don't care if I make only a small amount of bitcoins mining. I want to mine.
How do I setup my machine (amd x64 4.6Ghz 6GB/RAM with GeForce Nvidia 7300, LinuxMint 10) to start mining?
Is it ...
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Is there any point to casual mining?
Is there any point to casual mining anymore? I recently discovered bitcoin and was wondering if there was any point to running mining software on my laptop while I work on essays or other non-...
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Can casual people still mine for bitcoins, now that the difficulty is much higher than it was?
Can casual people still mine for bitcoins? As of October 2012, the difficulty seems very high, being over 3,000,000.
I've seen a ad for bitcoins, and watched the video. It said I could mine for them ...
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How does one calculate the profitability of GPU mining?
As GPU mining made CPU mining non-profitable, at some point in time more specialized mining hardwares (FPGA and ASIC) would make GPU mining non-profitable.
When is GPU mining considered not-...
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Is Gpu mining still an option?
My friend asked me to do a research for him on bitcoin mining, I don't know a lot so I'm asking. He's consider buying either NVIDIA gtx titan or NVIDIA gtc 980. Decent motherboard and internet speed. ...
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CPU Mining with a large EC2 cluster - worth the effort? [duplicate]
I'm relatively new to Bitcoin, and am playing around with pool mining for fun.
I have access to a fair amount of EC2 instances - c1.mediums - between 30 and 50 on a given day.
I already have the '...
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Why does mining profitability tend towards zero?
Why does mining profitability tend towards zero?
Is it different for short term miners than it is for long term miners?
Example: if I mine now and sell them next year, they may be worth more as ...
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Can I do mining with a normal PC? [duplicate]
Can I do mining with a normal PC in my house?
I will setup Linux (Ubuntu) for mining. It will be open 24/7. I don't have too many expectations. Maybe 0.1 in one week?
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How to quickly check your mining speed?
Is there some website that provides some webminer or other way for a person to check their mining speed without actually joining any pool or doing solo mining? Alternatively, are there some miners ...
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How can I solo mine using Bitcoin Core?
I want to mine Bitcoin using the Bitcoin Core client.
I have followed the steps on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd4Opw0Upok, but when I type "setgenerate true" in the console, it replies with "...
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What does "ASIC" mean?
I stumbled on the terms "ASIC" and " ASIC Miner", what do they mean? Is this something related to special hardware?
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Why is Slush Pool recognizing my worker as offline?
Just wanted to try out some mining but when I press start on GUIMiner Slush Pool dosn't recognize it. Right now I can mine at around 60Mhash/s, is that too slow or is it any other problem?
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