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Author: Michael Havens
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: bitcoin mining
I think feather coin is a good thing to mine because there is a market
already set up for it. What do you think?

:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 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 <
>>> >> <mailto:bmike1@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >>    how do I get involved with this? Any pointers... how-tos?
>>> >>    :-)~MIKE~(-:

>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
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