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		tarsinge on June 19, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bitcoin mining becomes unprofitable as BTC price f... For learning why bother with a very inefficient GPU, just mine with the CPU or better with pen and paper: https://hackaday.com/2014/09/29/mining-bitcoins-with-pencil-...

bradknowles on June 19, 2022 [–]

Because you want to? You want to see how the GPU works with bitcoin?

Ekaros on June 19, 2022 | [–]

Install a program, sing up on pool. Run it for few minutes or days get disappointed and stop? Wonder if there is any pools anymore even...

It really wasn't anyway practical or fun experience.

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