sandorski
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Sorry, I meant your bitcoin career
Haven't started yet. Been thinking about it since last April(ish), lol.
Sorry, I meant your bitcoin career
my gut feeling suggests, you give it a go.. now is a good timeHaven't started yet. Been thinking about it since last April(ish), lol.
my gut feeling suggests, you give it a go.. now is a good time
Might want to be careful with Arsbitcoin. It had a major outage a few weeks ago and more than 2/3 of the people jumped ship to other pools. The owner of the pool has stated unequivocably that he is no longer putting any / much effort in maintaining the servers. The only reason he hasn't shut the pool down completely is it would be too much of a hassle to do so compared to keeping it in zombie mode.Just got into mining I'm on the Arsbitcoin group. The value of Bitcoin's has shot up a good bit. Using two 5870s, just a hobby right now but I figured what do i have to lose with this.
Might want to be careful with Arsbitcoin. It had a major outage a few weeks ago and more than 2/3 of the people jumped ship to other pools. The owner of the pool has stated unequivocably that he is no longer putting any / much effort in maintaining the servers. The only reason he hasn't shut the pool down completely is it would be too much of a hassle to do so compared to keeping it in zombie mode.
I jumped from there to ABCpool.co. Same constant payout, pool hashrate that's on par with Arsbitcoin.
Might want to be careful with Arsbitcoin. It had a major outage a few weeks ago and more than 2/3 of the people jumped ship to other pools. The owner of the pool has stated unequivocably that he is no longer putting any / much effort in maintaining the servers. The only reason he hasn't shut the pool down completely is it would be too much of a hassle to do so compared to keeping it in zombie mode.
I jumped from there to ABCpool.co. Same constant payout, pool hashrate that's on par with Arsbitcoin.
What you have is perfect. Folks generally mine with higher end 5xxx and 6xxx cards (>= 5770, >= 6850).Thanks for the recommendation, decided to get back into doing some bitcoin mining. What are people using for bitcoin mining currently? I have a few video cards sitting around that should work pretty good. 5770, 5850, 6870. Found a couple guys on kijiji selling 5770's for $60-70 that I'm considering.
what big pools are still alive? I mined with btcguild and bitcoins.lc
That is a shame. I was reading up on bitcoin and in theory it would seem like a great tool for lower income households to make some extra cash while contributing to society. I wonder if there is another distributed computing project like this that would fit that kind of situation.
What? Do you have a link? That's the first time I've ever heard of anything like that.
I'm still using BTCguild, they're pay per share now though.
Folding@home?
Here's a bitcoin calculator. Before you start mining, check if it's worth itGot your shiny new dual-6990 miner? Wondering when it will pay off? If you enter your hash rate below, this page will calculate your expected earnings in both Bitcoins and dollars over various time periods (day, week, and month).