bitcoin mining

[Eric Cope]

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 <sesso at djsesso.com> 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 <brian at snaptek.com> 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 <bmike1 at gmail.com
> >> <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>
> >>    how do I get involved with this? Any pointers... how-tos?
> >>    :-)~MIKE~(-:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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