holy moly! they want between 400 and 10000 dollars for ASIC stuff. I figured I'd try tethering a bunch of used computers together because that is what I can afford to do. :-)~MIKE~(-: On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Eric Cope wrote: > You will spend more money on electricity than any bitcoins you are able to > mine with anything other than custom ASICs. If you want to fiddle around > with a crypto-currency, I'd pick another one where mining on your personal > laptop (or freely available PCs). > > Eric > > > On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Sesso wrote: > >> I have a list of all of the types of coin that are out there and the >> complexity to mine. I'll try to remember to post it in here so that you can >> research the different types of coin. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> > On Mar 19, 2014, at 2:43 PM, Brian Cluff wrote: >> > >> > Look into ASIC based bitcoin mining it's way way way faster than using >> standard computers to do the mining. >> > >> > That being said, I would wait a little while and see how bitcoin plays >> out. It's on rocky ground right now and you might find that you have >> purchased a bunch of hardware and burned a ton of electricity to mine a >> bitcoin that turns out to be worthless. >> > >> > Brian >> > >> >> On 03/19/2014 02:35 PM, Michael Havens wrote: >> >> what I'm thinking of doing is buying a bunch of used computers and >> >> turning them into a super-computer and using that for the bit-coin >> >> mining. What is super-computerizing called? >> >> >> >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> >> >> >> >> >> On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Michael Havens > >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> how do I get involved with this? Any pointers... how-tos? >> >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------- >> > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >