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Bitcoin mining
    #19072425 - 11/01/13 09:47 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Is it even practical anymore? Say you invested a 1000-1500 in a dedicated mining computer... how long would that take to pay for itself not factoring in power consumption?


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Re: Bitcoin mining [Re: luvdemboomers]
    #19072437 - 11/01/13 09:50 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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luvdemboomers said:
Is it even practical anymore? Say you invested a 1000-1500 in a dedicated mining computer... how long would that take to pay for itself not factoring in power consumption?



Not so much, litecoin mining on the other hand is still plenty profitable


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Re: Bitcoin mining [Re: luvdemboomers]
    #19072441 - 11/01/13 09:51 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Someone could always come up with a more efficient algorithm for finding bitcoins, which would make mining popular again.
When this happens is anyone's guess.


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Re: Bitcoin mining [Re: Sell Your Soul]
    #19072534 - 11/01/13 10:12 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Bitcoin mining is unprofitable to most people because ASICs have drastically upped the difficulty by being insanely efficient, there are no ASICs for scrypt based coins like litecoin, which is worth 2.2$


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Re: Bitcoin mining [Re: Sell Your Soul] * 1
    #19072536 - 11/01/13 10:13 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

^ u beat me to it .


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Re: Bitcoin mining [Re: Sell Your Soul] * 1
    #19072660 - 11/01/13 10:44 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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Someone could always come up with a more efficient algorithm for finding bitcoins, which would make mining popular again.





I didn't know Bitcoins were something to be found. I thought they were something that is generated.


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Re: Bitcoin mining [Re: s240779] * 1
    #19072670 - 11/01/13 10:45 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

I don't understand any of this bitcoin stuff


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Re: Bitcoin mining [Re: dontknow]
    #19072726 - 11/01/13 10:58 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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I don't understand any of this bitcoin stuff




Yea seriously. If someone somehow made an app that allowed the general (stupid) public to get bitcoins that app would probably do well


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Re: Bitcoin mining [Re: TheMule73]
    #19072745 - 11/01/13 11:04 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

calling me stupid..  :herpderp:


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Re: Bitcoin mining [Re: dontknow]
    #19072758 - 11/01/13 11:06 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Nigga, I'm stupid too


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Re: Bitcoin mining [Re: TheMule73] * 1
    #19072770 - 11/01/13 11:09 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

We're all stupid here


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Re: Bitcoin mining [Re: dontknow]
    #19072773 - 11/01/13 11:10 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

^ perfect


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Re: Bitcoin mining [Re: TheMule73]
    #19072787 - 11/01/13 11:12 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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TheMule73 said:
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dontknow said:
I don't understand any of this bitcoin stuff




Yea seriously. If someone somehow made an app that allowed the general (stupid) public to get bitcoins that app would probably do well



That is akin to saying "if someone somehow made an app that allowed the general (stupid) public to get money that app would probably do well".  In other words, it makes no sense.  You can't just give away money.


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Re: Bitcoin mining [Re: pwnasaurus]
    #19072794 - 11/01/13 11:14 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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pwnasaurus said:

That is akin to saying "if someone somehow made an app that allowed the general (stupid) public to get money that app would probably do well".  In other words, it makes no sense.  You can't just give away money.






bernanke, anyone?


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Re: Bitcoin mining [Re: pwnasaurus]
    #19072802 - 11/01/13 11:15 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Not talking about giving away money. I'm talking about making it easier to obtain bitcoins. Because I for one am confused as shit with anything bitcoin related.  But maybe I'm just retarded. idk...


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Re: Bitcoin mining [Re: TheMule73]
    #19072811 - 11/01/13 11:18 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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TheMule73 said:
Not talking about giving away money. I'm talking about making it easier to obtain bitcoins. Because I for one am confused as shit with anything bitcoin related.  But maybe I'm just retarded. idk...



easy as fuck
1. get account at mtgox.com
2. transfer money from bank to mtgox may take 2 weeks
3. buy bitcoins
4. whatever


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Re: Bitcoin mining [Re: TheMule73] * 1
    #19072818 - 11/01/13 11:21 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Quote:

TheMule73 said:
Not talking about giving away money. I'm talking about making it easier to obtain bitcoins. Because I for one am confused as shit with anything bitcoin related.  But maybe I'm just retarded. idk...



By obtaining do you mean buying?  It's pretty straightforward as detailed by the poster above.


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Re: Bitcoin mining [Re: pwnasaurus] * 2
    #19072831 - 11/01/13 11:24 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

so bitcoins are tangible internet ores that need to be mined and then traded for real money? what mining level required? can i use adamant pickaxe?


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Re: Bitcoin mining [Re: dontknow] * 1
    #19072850 - 11/01/13 11:29 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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dontknow said:
so bitcoins are tangible internet ores that need to be mined and then traded for real money? what mining level required? can i use adamant pickaxe?



Mining refers to the process by which new bitcoins are formed. You see in order to run and verify transactions the bitcoin network needs computing power. To get it bitcoin was designed so that solving transaction blocks would result in a prize of bitcoins. The more computing power there is the more is needed to get coins. Bitcoin is set to automatically adjust difficulty so that it takes until a certain year that I forget to mine them all. After this the network will be maintained by fees people can use to make their transactions go faster, these fees go to miners


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Re: Bitcoin mining [Re: luvdemboomers]
    #19072854 - 11/01/13 11:30 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

CUM FOUTNAIN


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Re: Bitcoin mining [Re: dontknow]
    #19072973 - 11/02/13 12:03 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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dontknow said:
so bitcoins are tangible internet ores that need to be mined and then traded for real money? what mining level required? can i use adamant pickaxe?




They do not need to be traded for "real money." They're just as real as any money, they're just not as popular as traditional currencies at the moment. All money is just a mediator of trading.


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Re: Bitcoin mining [Re: s240779]
    #19076099 - 11/02/13 05:05 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

I have a question. Can the founder of Bitcoin generate as many Bitcoins as he wants, for himself?


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Re: Bitcoin mining [Re: s240779]
    #19076126 - 11/02/13 05:11 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

No


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Re: Bitcoin mining [Re: s240779] * 1
    #19076132 - 11/02/13 05:12 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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Da2ra said:
I have a question. Can the founder of Bitcoin generate as many Bitcoins as he wants, for himself?




Do you think people would be using a system where that was possible?


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Re: Bitcoin mining [Re: NotTheDevil]
    #19076144 - 11/02/13 05:14 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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dontknow said:
so bitcoins are tangible internet ores that need to be mined and then traded for real money? what mining level required? can i use adamant pickaxe?



Mining refers to the process by which new bitcoins are formed. You see in order to run and verify transactions the bitcoin network needs computing power. To get it bitcoin was designed so that solving transaction blocks would result in a prize of bitcoins. The more computing power there is the more is needed to get coins. Bitcoin is set to automatically adjust difficulty so that it takes until a certain year that I forget to mine them all. After this the network will be maintained by fees people can use to make their transactions go faster, these fees go to miners



Also read this


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Re: Bitcoin mining [Re: s240779] * 1
    #19076177 - 11/02/13 05:22 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Quote:

Da2ra said:
I have a question. Can the founder of Bitcoin generate as many Bitcoins as he wants, for himself?



Of course not.  That's not to say that he didn't mine a bunch when the difficulty was low, though.


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Re: Bitcoin mining [Re: Mush4Brains]
    #19076211 - 11/02/13 05:30 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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Mush4Brains said:
Quote:

Da2ra said:
I have a question. Can the founder of Bitcoin generate as many Bitcoins as he wants, for himself?




Do you think people would be using a system where that was possible?





That's the case with all government currencies.


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Re: Bitcoin mining [Re: s240779]
    #19076237 - 11/02/13 05:35 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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Da2ra said:
Quote:

Mush4Brains said:
Quote:

Da2ra said:
I have a question. Can the founder of Bitcoin generate as many Bitcoins as he wants, for himself?




Do you think people would be using a system where that was possible?





That's the case with all government currencies.


:themoreyouknow:



That what bitcoin was made to be an improvement on, that is why bitcoin is


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Re: Bitcoin mining [Re: NotTheDevil]
    #19076284 - 11/02/13 05:45 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

And people are doubting its efficacy as a currency!? This is the greatest currency ever!!


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Re: Bitcoin mining [Re: s240779]
    #19076300 - 11/02/13 05:47 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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And people are doubting its efficacy as a currency!? This is the greatest currency ever!!



They have since its inception because they refuse to even read about. Instead they just dismiss it a some sort of scheme.


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Re: Bitcoin mining [Re: NotTheDevil]
    #19076333 - 11/02/13 05:54 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

It must be pretty advanced for the creator to be locked out of generating bitcoins at will.


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Re: Bitcoin mining [Re: s240779]
    #19076366 - 11/02/13 06:03 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

i was looking though older threads yesterday, all the info is already in the older threads

if i remember correctly


there are a set amount to be generated, and as more are found they start increasing the length of the algorithms  = harder to mine

only a fraction of the computing power is used for transactions, the rest is just "useless" computing

the point of mining is to get the bitcoins in circulation, similar to the government giving out loans at low interest rates, its just a way to get them in circulation


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Re: Bitcoin mining [Re: s240779]
    #19076402 - 11/02/13 06:11 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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It must be pretty advanced for the creator to be locked out of generating bitcoins at will.



What are you talking about?  90% of your posts in this thread have made no sense.

It's decentralized.  The "creator" has nothing to do with it other than coming up with the protocol.


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Re: Bitcoin mining [Re: pwnasaurus]
    #19079112 - 11/03/13 07:31 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

so is it practical or not?


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Re: Bitcoin mining [Re: luvdemboomers]
    #19079128 - 11/03/13 07:34 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

I now know even less about Bitcoins after reading this thread.


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Re: Bitcoin mining [Re: luvdemboomers]
    #19080433 - 11/03/13 01:40 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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so is it practical or not?



Is what practical?


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Re: Bitcoin mining [Re: pwnasaurus]
    #19081050 - 11/03/13 03:49 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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pwnasaurus said:
Quote:

luvdemboomers said:
so is it practical or not?



Is what practical?



investing a thousand dollars into a dedicated mining computer.


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Re: Bitcoin mining [Re: luvdemboomers]
    #19081058 - 11/03/13 03:51 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

You don't use computers to mine anymore, you use ASIC mining hardware.  Spending any money on a computer to mine BTC at this point would be a complete waste of money.


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Re: Bitcoin mining [Re: luvdemboomers]
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Re: Bitcoin mining [Re: luvdemboomers]
    #19081190 - 11/03/13 04:15 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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luvdemboomers said:
Quote:

pwnasaurus said:
Quote:

luvdemboomers said:
so is it practical or not?



Is what practical?



investing a thousand dollars into a dedicated mining computer.



In short: bitcoin no, litecoin yes


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Re: Bitcoin mining [Re: NotTheDevil]
    #19081200 - 11/03/13 04:17 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

litecoin isn't compatible with Bitcoin, is it? So if you invest in litecoin, but Bitcoin ends up totally dominating it, you totally wasted your money, right?


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Re: Bitcoin mining [Re: s240779] * 1
    #19081283 - 11/03/13 04:35 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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litecoin isn't compatible with Bitcoin, is it? So if you invest in litecoin, but Bitcoin ends up totally dominating it, you totally wasted your money, right?



They are completely different currencies.


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