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No, GPUs are literally millions of times less power performant than equivalent ASICs for sha256 mining. In the GPU days, mining was talked about in terms of meg
by px43 2y ago
No, GPUs are literally millions of times less power performant than equivalent ASICs for sha256 mining. In the GPU days, mining was talked about in terms of megahashes per second, and ASIC miners these days are talked about in terms of terrahashes per second.
- ProllyInfamous 2y ago>In the GPU days... Back in my earliest days, a CPU could mine bitcoin (it was just a check/enable box in the preferences). HODL, erryday, frens.
- cdchn 2y agoUnrealized gains are unrealized.
- ProllyInfamous 2y agoAmen... I only vaguely recall something about a boating accident.
- px43 2y agoYeah I was mining hundreds of BTC per day on an Athlon 2200. That was the low kilohash era.
- bavell 2y agoI remember when the first GPU kernels came out... exciting times!
- chubbyFIREthrwy 2y agoI made my fortune by building a GPU miner in January 2011. Even by then, the best GPU for it was sold out so I bought 4 of the next best one. I shut it down in July of that year because it was raising my electric bill by like $100/month. Possibly the biggest financial mistake of my life.
- ProllyInfamous 2y agoI partially heat my 900sqft SFH mining monero... since [compared to resistive space heater usage-offset] there is no additional energy usage, it's effectively free crypto. Of course this means you can only earn half of the year. Mine ejects its heat under desk toes.