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Unfortunately, I'm trying to obtain a small amount of ethereum currency to experiment with this.. And I just killed my thread doing 1M hashes a sec, because I

by kefka 11y ago

Unfortunately, I'm trying to obtain a small amount of ethereum currency to experiment with this.. And I just killed my thread doing 1M hashes a sec, because I found out that 6MHash/sec = 5 Eth/month on average. I'll spend my time learning other things, mainly because this is inaccessible to me.

jarsin 11y ago
Just download the mist wallet and mine on the test network which is what you should be doing if you are playing with it anyway. https://github.com/ethereum/mist/releases https://github.com/ethereum/mist/releases
cjm 11y ago
You can buy the Ether on an exchange.
- kefka 11y ago
  I was hoping for a roughly low barrier of entry, rather than try to figure out who will trade USB for ETH, as I have no BTC. In all honesty, I'm looking at distributed applications as well, which from what I read Ethereum says it does and doesn't do. It's a bit fast and loose from what I read about, about Ethereum's capabilities. I'll go back to my experimenting with TOR and how it might be possible to make your own distributed applications within the Hidden Services. That's free to use, and as low bar as I can think of. (Add machine, shows up as HS.)
  - xavieryvez 11y ago
    While developing, you would do it either on the dev (local, not connected) or testnet. Both these are easily mineable (I have 10k's on both), so there is nothing stopping you to actually playing around and putting together a dapp without having real ETH in your pocket. No expenses and you can play around all you like. When you want to go live, there is typically only a very small deployment cost.
  - crazydoggers 11y ago
    As other posters have mentioned, you can download the Mist client and test things on the testnet. And you don't have to mine, you can get free testnet ethereum via the wei faucet: https://zerogox.com/ethereum/wei_faucet https://zerogox.com/ethereum/wei_faucet Gas prices to run code on ethereum are fractions of ethereum, so even a small amount will get you pretty far.
  - jbpetersen 11y ago
    Relatively inaccessible means of exchange are a persistent weakness of non-domestic currencies. Hope your experimenting goes well!
to3m 11y ago
Setting up a 1-node ethereum testnet is not too hard (though it's not especially user-friendly either). I did some work with Ethereum last year, and I ran a 1-node testnet on my laptop when working on code. The node was mining constantly, but it didn't seem to demand too much from the CPU. No excessive fan noise or heat. Both embark and truffle, two commonly-used frameworks, have modes that exercise the CPU even less, though I found them a bit hit or miss. I'm sure both have improved since, though. I did a quick test run on the main network as well (which wasn't too expensive - maybe 1ETH). You're definitely better off using a testnet! - the turnaround time is much shorter.

by kefka 11y ago

jarsin 11y ago

Just download the mist wallet and mine on the test network which is what you should be doing if you are playing with it anyway. https://github.com/ethereum/mist/releases https://github.com/ethereum/mist/releases

cjm 11y ago

You can buy the Ether on an exchange.

kefka 11y ago
I was hoping for a roughly low barrier of entry, rather than try to figure out who will trade USB for ETH, as I have no BTC. In all honesty, I'm looking at distributed applications as well, which from what I read Ethereum says it does and doesn't do. It's a bit fast and loose from what I read about, about Ethereum's capabilities. I'll go back to my experimenting with TOR and how it might be possible to make your own distributed applications within the Hidden Services. That's free to use, and as low bar as I can think of. (Add machine, shows up as HS.)
- xavieryvez 11y ago
  While developing, you would do it either on the dev (local, not connected) or testnet. Both these are easily mineable (I have 10k's on both), so there is nothing stopping you to actually playing around and putting together a dapp without having real ETH in your pocket. No expenses and you can play around all you like. When you want to go live, there is typically only a very small deployment cost.
- crazydoggers 11y ago
  As other posters have mentioned, you can download the Mist client and test things on the testnet. And you don't have to mine, you can get free testnet ethereum via the wei faucet: https://zerogox.com/ethereum/wei_faucet https://zerogox.com/ethereum/wei_faucet Gas prices to run code on ethereum are fractions of ethereum, so even a small amount will get you pretty far.
- jbpetersen 11y ago
  Relatively inaccessible means of exchange are a persistent weakness of non-domestic currencies. Hope your experimenting goes well!

to3m 11y ago

Setting up a 1-node ethereum testnet is not too hard (though it's not especially user-friendly either). I did some work with Ethereum last year, and I ran a 1-node testnet on my laptop when working on code. The node was mining constantly, but it didn't seem to demand too much from the CPU. No excessive fan noise or heat. Both embark and truffle, two commonly-used frameworks, have modes that exercise the CPU even less, though I found them a bit hit or miss. I'm sure both have improved since, though. I did a quick test run on the main network as well (which wasn't too expensive - maybe 1ETH). You're definitely better off using a testnet! - the turnaround time is much shorter.