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Marcus Dean Adams
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So all this talk about mining bitcoin, I decided to check it out.
Set up a miner on my gaming PC (FX 8370 and RX 480 8GB), the living room PC (FX 8300 and RX 460 2GB), and my son's bedroom PC (Intel hypthreaded dual core), and pointed them all to my bitcoin wallet, so I've got two discreet graphics cards, two 8 core CPUs and one laptop chugging away at it. The living room PC and my son's PC run pretty much 24/7 anyway because they're always playing a video stream or something in the background, so I just started the mining software in the background and then switched back to their user accounts so it'll just run non-stop on PCs that are on 24/7 anyway. I'll obviously be shutting it down on my PC when I play a game, edit videos, etc.
I've had it running on those two PCs and my gaming PC for about 30 minutes now, and it says I'm mining at a rate of about $119 a month (it was lower, but has been climbing the longer I've let it run). That seems VERY, unrealistically optimistic based on what I've heard about bitcoin mining. If you're mining with your normal everyday hardware, what are you getting?
Set up a miner on my gaming PC (FX 8370 and RX 480 8GB), the living room PC (FX 8300 and RX 460 2GB), and my son's bedroom PC (Intel hypthreaded dual core), and pointed them all to my bitcoin wallet, so I've got two discreet graphics cards, two 8 core CPUs and one laptop chugging away at it. The living room PC and my son's PC run pretty much 24/7 anyway because they're always playing a video stream or something in the background, so I just started the mining software in the background and then switched back to their user accounts so it'll just run non-stop on PCs that are on 24/7 anyway. I'll obviously be shutting it down on my PC when I play a game, edit videos, etc.
I've had it running on those two PCs and my gaming PC for about 30 minutes now, and it says I'm mining at a rate of about $119 a month (it was lower, but has been climbing the longer I've let it run). That seems VERY, unrealistically optimistic based on what I've heard about bitcoin mining. If you're mining with your normal everyday hardware, what are you getting?