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Ive been thinking about building a gaming desktop, would that be something that would be suitable?
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If you plan on mining litecoins, you need a litecoin wallet, if you plan on doge a doge wallet, etc. etc. My recommendation is to get a Bitcoin wallet, and mine on waffle pool with CGminer. It's straight forward really. But you need a computer with a good set of AMD GPUs, preferably 280Xs as they have the best hash/$ |
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My current laptop is well... shit. Should I just start mining on it to get an idea of how its done or will it not even work, the laptop is about 3 years old and It doesnt have a dedicated graphics card. The gaming rig is about a month or 2 away.
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Nope, you won't be able to, you could try mining Primecoin, but even that in a 3yr old laptop is worthless...
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Wishing I had bought 3 270Xs when they where $229 on tiger direct... missed opportunity... |
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I have not spent any money that jeopardizes home or family wellbeing or would affect life overall if it were to go up in smoke, far as i'm concerned its no different than having bought some stocks. Its also adding a lot of heat to the house, i was paying $600+ a month on that alone. Size of investment is irrelevant to the payoff window assuming proper scaling. |
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In some ways, I feel like it's safer than stocks. If the value of bitcoins drops to $0 USD, you still have the hardware that you could sell for probably 70% of what you paid for. If the stock price drops to $0 USD, you have nothing.
On the other hand, bitcoins seem pretty volatile than stocks. Either way, you should be willing to lose all of it if you want to get into this. |
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