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In the ASIC-age, is it worth starting mining Bitcoin at home?
Generally, it's not worth your time and effort to mine at home! (Some exceptions may apply.)
Age of ASIC mining
CPU mining has been unprofitable since 2011, GPU mining just slightly later.
Today, ...
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Bitcoin migrating to a ASIC resistant mining algorithm like RandomX used on Monero
The bitcoin community would have to decide that they don't particularly care about having significant security anymore. ASIC-resistance weakens the security of proof of work chains because it ...
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How to tell how many hashes/sec the bitcoin core app on osx is running?
Yes Erik, the mining feature is still built-in and you can check how many hashes your CPU can perform. Although it's pointless and you cannot earn anything, it is still a fun experiment that people ...
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How to activate the mining process in the standard bitcoin client?
Warning: doing what is described below will not gain you any coins at all with exceedingly high probability, and just burn electricity (see other answer).
Bitcoin Core still has a built-in miner. It ...
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Using GPU mining with the Bitcoin Wallet
You can use your GPU to mine, but it is going to mostly be a waste of time and energy now that there is specialized hardware (ASICs) to mine.
You need a piece of software that will allow you to mine ...
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In the ASIC-age, is it worth starting mining Bitcoin at home?
Bitcoin, as the answers imply, is long out of the reach of home miners, however other coins can use all your hardware, e.g. Gridcoin (GRC).
Gridcoin rewards work done on the BOINC platform which is a ...
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How to code the Simplest BitCoin CPU Miner?
This is a great tutorial for that, if you are familiar with python:
https://github.com/philipperemy/my-first-bitcoin-miner
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Since which version is the mining functionality removed from the wallet?
Bitcoin Core removed it in version 0.13.0. You can see the change log at https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.13.0:
Removal of internal miner
As CPU mining has been useless for a long time, the ...
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Can High CPU Droplets from Digital Ocean be used for Bitcoin Mining?
No, neither CPUs nor GPUs of any kind are of the slightest use in Bitcoin mining. This has been the case for several years, since the introduction of ASIC miners which are now many orders of ...
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Why am I getting only about 3k to 300k hashes per second?
You are limited by your machine clock speed and hashing library performance.
Scripting langs are not a good choice for CPU intensive operations.
Also, you are doing hashes sequentially, try ...
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How to tell how many hashes/sec the bitcoin core app on osx is running?
Most CPUs will do a few megahash per second, which is completely worthless for anything other than testing and has been for several years now. It may be possible to improve performance in the future ...
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Does this mean it's mining?
You are using an ancient version of bfgminer
CPU mining was disabled by default even in bfgminer 3.10.0, your gpu doesn't seem to get detected
You're about 4 years late for CPU mining and 3 years ...
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How to experience the thrill of mining?
Run Bitcoin Core with the -regtest flag set:
For situations where interaction with random peers and blocks is unnecessary or unwanted, Bitcoin Core’s regression test mode (regtest mode) lets you ...
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CPU mining in the background
First of all, I would recommend that your users are informed that you will be doing CPU mining in the background while they browse your site, and that they agree to let you do this.
Secondly, you ...
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May bitcoin mining on laptop be possible again?
It is extremely unlikely that this will ever be possible.
Fundamentally, any computation can be done more efficiently on hardware that was specifically designed for that computation than on general-...
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Bitcoin migrating to a ASIC resistant mining algorithm like RandomX used on Monero
Agree with David's answer, but the security detriments of ASIC resistance (of which there are many) is somewhat besides the point.
The entire value proposition of bitcoin, and what makes it so ...
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The Legit & Safe—Windows Command Line Miner
There are no official CGMiner binaries being distributed anymore specifically because of this problem. You will need to download the source code and compile it yourself. Instructions for doing that ...
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CPU mining Core 2 Quad Q9550
-t 6 threads should be the best setting, half of the L3 cache. Give it a try and let us know how it goes. Also, see what the developer of xmrig (cpuminer 'competitor') says about it:
xmrig commented ...
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Mining new litecoin based altcoin. Internal Server Error 500
The problem is that the Litecoin I used 0.8.4.7, does not have embedded mining software.
I ended up with two solutions:
Create mining pool and then:
connect nodes to each other
run the miner on my ...
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Since which version is the mining functionality removed from the wallet?
Removal of internal miner
As CPU mining has been useless for a long time, the internal miner has been removed in this release, and replaced with a simpler implementation for the test framework.
The ...
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cpu, ram or bandwidth -- what is most important for bitcoin mining?
CPU is basically the only thing that matters.
The memory requirements for mining are trivial (enough to run bitcoind; SHA256 uses only a few bytes of memory). Having more that enough will add no ...
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Why is my miner offline in Slush's Pool?
Your tablet is too slow to even be assigned work by the pool.
Mining today is performed with ASICs, specialized hardware that is literally a billion times more efficient than your tablet, clocking in ...
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What is the status on webminers?
Here's a current option for adding mining to your website: https://coinhive.com/
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