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What are the odds that crypto miners will start picking up M1 Max MacBook Pro's? Not cost effective, presumably.

• neogodless 5y ago
  There are forks that my mine ETH on Apple Silicon, but the M1 Max only does about 10 Mh/s which works out to like $0.70 / day. So no, not cost effective. Perhaps if better software is written specially for the hardware / Metal?
  • dev_tty01 5y ago
    I'm not knowledgeable on mining, but I thought I read that ETH performance was largely dependent upon memory bandwidth. If that is true, it should be possible to create performant ETH code with a 400 GByte/sec memory system. Of course, maybe I completely misunderstood something. Please correct me.
    • lostmsu 5y ago
      It is not that much bandwidth bound. You sill need compute. The goal of ethash is to require a lot of memory.
      • 15155 5y ago
        With an FPGA attached for faster SHA3 that 400GB/s could be used to great effect.
  • londons_explore 5y ago
    $0.70/day is still substantially more than the electricity cost if you need a mac for work but aren't using it 24x7. $200/yr is a good top-up to the beer money fund.