I have several customers mining in my collocation facility. They are using the custom ASICs. Every few months they seem to replace them with newer stuff. I can tell you the they use a lot of electricity and generate a lot of heat. You have to spend a lot of money to make money is all I can say. This is not the most environmentally favorable way to do so either. Gilbert On 3/19/2014 4:18 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > 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 > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > 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