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If we are talking costs, do you understand the investment required to run and power 64 RTX 5090? Each GPU pulls 450 to 600 watts individually. The server farm would require somewhere around 300k for all the hardware and cooling intial investment. Then you would be looking at 200k-300k per year in ongoing utilities/maintenence/insurance.
I tried solving a puzzle, hitting scanning 500million keys/sec. with cuda GPU in a range. And guess what straight 7days didn't match any. So , it's a waste with current resources and programming. You need something cluster and miners algorithm or something to run over millions of computers in sync to find any. But, I'm sure , some mathematicians will find ways in the future to get into ecdsa cracking stuff or something,not sure.
A computer with a good GPU and processor is really very expensive here — an average worker wouldn’t be able to afford it. The alternative has been to import parts one by one and assemble them until a full PC is built.
Post is by: Tonstation and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/CryptoMarkets/comments/1obgfc3/why_akash_network_could_be_the_perfect_partner/ Autonomys is actively scouting for partnerships that strengthen the foundation of decentralized intelligence—and Akash Network stands out as an exceptional candidate. As a decentralized cloud computing marketplace, Akash offers a trustless, high-performance infrastructure layer capable of scaling AI workloads efficiently. Its DePIN-based compute leasing model aligns directly with Autonomys’ mission to build agentic, modular, and censorship-resistant AI ecosystems. Autonomys’ architecture depends on distributed storage, modular execution domains, and autonomous coordination mechanisms. Akash’s distributed GPU and compute resources could extend Autonomys’ DSN (Distributed Systems Network) capacity while reducing operational bottlenecks for AI model deployment. This synergy enables Autonomys agents to train, run, and self-optimize across multiple decentralized environments—fusing AI and Web3 infrastructure into a new paradigm: AI3.0. Together, Akash and Autonomys could create a self-sustaining compute economy where agentic intelligence meets decentralized compute. #AkashNetwork #Autonomys *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/CryptoMarkets) if you have any questions or concerns.*
Post is by: walkays45 and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/CryptoMarkets/comments/1obgd8o/autonomys_akash_network_the_fusion_that_redefines/ Imagine an AI ecosystem that doesn’t depend on centralized clouds—but evolves, scales, and learns across decentralized compute nodes. That’s the world Autonomys is building. Now, picture Akash Network, the “Supercloud of Web3,” bringing open access GPU power to everyone. It’s not just compute—it’s freedom at scale. Autonomys thrives on distributed infrastructure and agentic intelligence. Akash brings the muscle—on-demand, permissionless compute—exactly what AI agents need to operate autonomously across a resilient, modular network. Together, they form a self-propagating AI mesh—where every agent can deploy, train, and evolve across DePIN-grade infrastructure. This partnership wouldn’t just power models; it would redefine decentralized AI economics. Autonomys x Akash is the missing link between AI3.0 innovation and Web3 sovereignty. A partnership like this isn’t optional—it’s inevitable. #Autonomys #AkashNetwork *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/CryptoMarkets) if you have any questions or concerns.*
Post is by: Mobile_Magician_9133 and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/CryptoMarkets/comments/1ob2e21/coinblast_platform_an_honest_look_at_earning/ "This proactive approach not only benefits the user financially but also contributes directly to the stability and vibrancy of the CoinBlast ecosystem, making it a win-win scenario for all participants." I've spent a noticeable amount of time interacting with the CoinBlast platform, and I wanted to share a deeper dive into its actual operational mechanics, moving beyond the high-level marketing. What sets CoinBlast apart, in my experience, is its successful integration of various earning methods into a single, cohesive user interface. This is not just a typical crypto faucet; it's a dynamic system designed to keep users engaged through structured tasks and gamified rewards. The most appealing aspect of the CoinBlast experience is the reliance on a robust task execution system. Instead of the monotonous clicking often associated with micro-earning sites, CoinBlast employs a system where completing designated missions (like the one that led me to write this review) makes the earning process smooth and genuinely enjoyable. This mission-based structure provides clear targets and defined rewards, which is excellent for user retention and satisfaction. It feels less like work and more like progressing through levels. My Experience with Key Features Mining Feature: While the term "mining" might imply heavy GPU usage, here it functions more as a passive earning stream linked to account activity. I found this to be a low-effort, consistent way to accrue tokens. It serves as a nice baseline reward that ticks up in the background while I focus on other active tasks. This passive component contributes significantly to the overall perceived value of time spent on the platform. Referral Simplicity: A major part of my early success involved the referral system. I was able to successfully onboard five individuals to the platform without any friction. The process of sharing my link and having new users successfully register was remarkably smooth. The simplicity of the sign-up process for newcomers made this referral effort feel genuinely easy and worthwhile, leading to excellent supplementary earnings. It’s a key driver for early community growth. Auction Participation: My participation in the auctions has been strategic. The use of BIDs creates an internal economy that rewards users who are active in the task-based system. It’s a high-risk, high-reward element that adds excitement without being the sole focus of the entire platform. This balance ensures that users who prefer a lower-risk approach can still benefit heavily from the task system. CoinBlast has proven to be a reliable and fun platform. Its commitment to rewarding task completion, coupled with a simple and effective referral system and the added bonus of the passive mining feature, creates a holistic earning environment. For those looking for a fresh, engaging way to earn XRP, TRON, and other assets, especially while the platform is new, I highly recommend exploring the missions available on CoinBlast. My personal advice to anyone currently monitoring the crypto space is to participate and commit now. CoinBlast is still in its early operational stages, and platforms like this often offer the most generous rewards and bonuses during their initial launch phase to rapidly expand their user base. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/CryptoMarkets) if you have any questions or concerns.*
Post is by: Mobile_Magician_9133 and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/CryptoMarkets/comments/1ob288b/coinblast_platform_an_honest_look_at_earning/ "This proactive approach not only benefits the user financially but also contributes directly to the stability and vibrancy of the CoinBlast ecosystem, making it a win-win scenario for all participants." I've spent a noticeable amount of time interacting with the CoinBlast platform, and I wanted to share a deeper dive into its actual operational mechanics, moving beyond the high-level marketing. What sets CoinBlast apart, in my experience, is its successful integration of various earning methods into a single, cohesive user interface. This is not just a typical crypto faucet; it's a dynamic system designed to keep users engaged through structured tasks and gamified rewards. The most appealing aspect of the CoinBlast experience is the reliance on a robust task execution system. Instead of the monotonous clicking often associated with micro-earning sites, CoinBlast employs a system where completing designated missions (like the one that led me to write this review) makes the earning process smooth and genuinely enjoyable. This mission-based structure provides clear targets and defined rewards, which is excellent for user retention and satisfaction. It feels less like work and more like progressing through levels. My Experience with Key Features Mining Feature: While the term "mining" might imply heavy GPU usage, here it functions more as a passive earning stream linked to account activity. I found this to be a low-effort, consistent way to accrue tokens. It serves as a nice baseline reward that ticks up in the background while I focus on other active tasks. This passive component contributes significantly to the overall perceived value of time spent on the platform. Referral Simplicity: A major part of my early success involved the referral system. I was able to successfully onboard five individuals to the platform without any friction. The process of sharing my link and having new users successfully register was remarkably smooth. The simplicity of the sign-up process for newcomers made this referral effort feel genuinely easy and worthwhile, leading to excellent supplementary earnings. It’s a key driver for early community growth. Auction Participation: My participation in the auctions has been strategic. The use of BIDs creates an internal economy that rewards users who are active in the task-based system. It’s a high-risk, high-reward element that adds excitement without being the sole focus of the entire platform. This balance ensures that users who prefer a lower-risk approach can still benefit heavily from the task system. CoinBlast has proven to be a reliable and fun platform. Its commitment to rewarding task completion, coupled with a simple and effective referral system and the added bonus of the passive mining feature, creates a holistic earning environment. For those looking for a fresh, engaging way to earn XRP, TRON, and other assets, especially while the platform is new, I highly recommend exploring the missions available on CoinBlast. My personal advice to anyone currently monitoring the crypto space is to participate and commit now. CoinBlast is still in its early operational stages, and platforms like this often offer the most generous rewards and bonuses during their initial launch phase to rapidly expand their user base. I've spent a noticeable amount of time interacting with the CoinBlast platform, and I wanted to share a deeper dive into its actual operational mechanics, moving beyond the high-level marketing. What sets CoinBlast apart, in my experience, is its successful integration of various earning methods into a single, cohesive user interface. This is not just a typical crypto faucet; it's a dynamic system designed to keep users engaged through structured tasks and gamified rewards. The most appealing aspect of the CoinBlast experience is the reliance on a robust task execution system. Instead of the monotonous clicking often associated with micro-earning sites, CoinBlast employs a system where completing designated missions (like the one that led me to write this review) makes the earning process smooth and genuinely enjoyable. This mission-based structure provides clear targets and defined rewards, which is excellent for user retention and satisfaction. It feels less like work and more like progressing through levels. My Experience with Key Features Mining Feature: While the term "mining" might imply heavy GPU usage, here it functions more as a passive earning stream linked to account activity. I found this to be a low-effort, consistent way to accrue tokens. It serves as a nice baseline reward that ticks up in the background while I focus on other active tasks. This passive component contributes significantly to the overall perceived value of time spent on the platform. Referral Simplicity: A major part of my early success involved the referral system. I was able to successfully onboard five individuals to the platform without any friction. The process of sharing my link and having new users successfully register was remarkably smooth. The simplicity of the sign-up process for newcomers made this referral effort feel genuinely easy and worthwhile, leading to excellent supplementary earnings. It’s a key driver for early community growth. Auction Participation: My participation in the auctions has been strategic. The use of BIDs creates an internal economy that rewards users who are active in the task-based system. It’s a high-risk, high-reward element that adds excitement without being the sole focus of the entire platform. This balance ensures that users who prefer a lower-risk approach can still benefit heavily from the task system. CoinBlast has proven to be a reliable and fun platform. Its commitment to rewarding task completion, coupled with a simple and effective referral system and the added bonus of the passive mining feature, creates a holistic earning environment. For those looking for a fresh, engaging way to earn XRP, TRON, and other assets, especially while the platform is new, I highly recommend exploring the missions available on CoinBlast. My personal advice to anyone currently monitoring the crypto space is to participate and commit now. CoinBlast is still in its early operational stages, and platforms like this often offer the most generous rewards and bonuses during their initial launch phase to rapidly expand their user base. I've spent a noticeable amount of time interacting with the CoinBlast platform, and I wanted to share a deeper dive into its actual operational mechanics, moving beyond the high-level marketing. What sets CoinBlast apart, in my experience, is its successful integration of various earning methods into a single, cohesive user interface. This is not just a typical crypto faucet; it's a dynamic system designed to keep users engaged through structured tasks and gamified rewards. The most appealing aspect of the CoinBlast experience is the reliance on a robust task execution system. Instead of the monotonous clicking often associated with micro-earning sites, CoinBlast employs a system where completing designated missions (like the one that led me to write this review) makes the earning process smooth and genuinely enjoyable. This mission-based structure provides clear targets and defined rewards, which is excellent for user retention and satisfaction. It feels less like work and more like progressing through levels. My Experience with Key Features Mining Feature: While the term "mining" might imply heavy GPU usage, here it functions more as a passive earning stream linked to account activity. I found this to be a low-effort, consistent way to accrue tokens. It serves as a nice baseline reward that ticks up in the background while I focus on other active tasks. This passive component contributes significantly to the overall perceived value of time spent on the platform. Referral Simplicity: A major part of my early success involved the referral system. I was able to successfully onboard five individuals to the platform without any friction. The process of sharing my link and having new users successfully register was remarkably smooth. The simplicity of the sign-up process for newcomers made this referral effort feel genuinely easy and worthwhile, leading to excellent supplementary earnings. It’s a key driver for early community growth. Auction Participation: My participation in the auctions has been strategic. The use of BIDs creates an internal economy that rewards users who are active in the task-based system. It’s a high-risk, high-reward element that adds excitement without being the sole focus of the entire platform. This balance ensures that users who prefer a lower-risk approach can still benefit heavily from the task system. CoinBlast has proven to be a reliable and fun platform. Its commitment to rewarding task completion, coupled with a simple and effective referral system and the added bonus of the passive mining feature, creates a holistic earning environment. For those looking for a fresh, engaging way to earn XRP, TRON, and other assets, especially while the platform is new, I highly recommend exploring the missions available on CoinBlast. My personal advice to anyone currently monitoring the crypto space is to participate and commit now. CoinBlast is still in its early operational stages, and platforms like this often offer the most generous rewards and bonuses during their initial launch phase to rapidly expand their user base. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/CryptoMarkets) if you have any questions or concerns.*
Post is by: ScaredGood764 and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/CryptoMarkets/comments/1oau98v/ive_been_using_this_new_passive_income_extension/ I’ve been trying out this new project called **Grass** for a few days, and honestly, it’s been a pleasant surprise. The idea is simple — you share a small portion of your internet bandwidth and earn rewards in return. No crypto mining, no GPU stress, no fan noise. It just runs quietly in the background while you go about your day. At first, I thought it might be another “too good to be true” thing, but it’s actually stable and lightweight. The dashboard updates in real-time, and they recently added a referral system that lets you earn a bit extra by inviting others. Obviously, it’s not going to make you rich overnight, but as a side passive income stream, it’s one of the cleanest setups I’ve seen lately. If anyone’s curious about how it works, I left more details and info on my profile 👀 *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/CryptoMarkets) if you have any questions or concerns.*
But you can use gold.... (go ahead and weld up a GPU while I watch...)
You can’t beat yourself up for not actually buying it. Taking cash out of your pocket to put into harms way is a totally different proposition than getting that output from mining. I’m a big computer nerd but unfortunately didn’t catch onto mining until well past the GPU era, heck early on a laptop would have been great. It’s interesting how people can have such different perspective and insight. One post I ran across, this was when BTC was trading between $300-$700 violently and fast. He was so confident. He was tapping HELOC to buy it. Good times. When you get old enough, whatever you want to say or believe there’s a point where your best days are behind you or maybe some of the greatest points in your life weren’t realized until much later and not appreciated in real time. I’m a big proponent of nostalgia and BTC is right up there. I think I first discovered it in 2014 but when all said and done, I have absolutely nothing tangibly to show for it.
Yeah, he was one of the first. Him and Artforz both were GPU mining when essentially no one else was. I think Laszlo made the very first GPU miner in April-June 2010. Then there was a Slashdot post about Bitcoin that was popular around that time and Artforz came over and did mass GPU mining for the first time around July 2010. You could still CPU mine, it's just that the GPU miners were making bank (of course, at the time each coin was only worth ~$0.10. After that, there was a short period of proprietary GPU mining but by October 2010 there was a miner that was completely open source. It wasn't highly optimized, so the other GPU miners still beat it for a while, but very very quickly open source miners caught up. Today, CGMiner is probably the most optimized and oldest miner. Also important to note is that pooled mining was in place by December 2010 and that very similarly broke the strangehold that private GPU miners had in the early-to-mid 2010 era. By the end of the year, anyone that wanted to GPU mine was already mining and a lot of them were pooling as well, thereby beating the efficiency of the other miners. IMHO, this was probably the best era to have gotten into Bitcoin (and when I started!) because mining was accessible to technically-inclined people but still cheap and difficult enough to mine that not everyone wanted to do it.
GPU mining software didn't exist until mid-2010, and it was only near the end of 2010 that it became freely accessible (the first ones were not open source).
tldr; Brevis has achieved a milestone in Ethereum proving speed with its Pico Prism zkVM, reaching 99.6% proving coverage for blocks under 12 seconds and 96.8% real-time coverage under 10 seconds. This advancement reduces GPU hardware costs by 50% and addresses Ethereum's redundancy issue by scaling verification through cryptographic proofs. Brevis is close to meeting the Ethereum Foundation's 2025 benchmarks, paving the way for faster, cheaper, and more secure base-layer validation, benefiting developers and users alike. *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.
In the beginning I can't imagine anyone was using a GPU. If one person was, then they would have gotten all 50 BTC blocks vendate CPUs couldn't keep up
If course you needed a GPU for serious amounts. I had an HD5450 and was able to mine 1 BTC per Month
Some hoard the numbers other rent a million dollar GPU farm to find them: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJHPDGj93-w](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJHPDGj93-w)
Asic is a Application Specific Integrated Circuit. The sha256 algo is etched in the silicon and shoving electricity down the board runs the algo. This will be faster than the fastest GPU, even a h100. It's not even a comparison. It's like the difference between CPU and GPU for LLMs is the difference between GPU and ASIC for mining. There's basically no overlap with the fastest CPU in the world and a budget gaming gpu from 10 years ago in terms of LLM performance. It's far more worrisome that two of the pools are US-based and the government could just tell them to collude.
Honestly I’m just playing catch up. I’ve never been able to shake my trader mentality and it’s cost me dearly the last ten years in this super bull market having been in and out of positions countless times but not actually having any core holdings. Ironically I got people into BTC in late 2014/2015 but I was a scalper and never held on. My only regret is I discovered mining too late once it had graduated into ASIC level power. But those folks who got in on the GPU leg of it between 2010-2013 were just straight up printing BTC in lame laptops. I think under context it would have more a video game vibe for me personally and been much easier to hold and forget it since you didn’t pay $500 or $1000 per coin with cash out of pocket.
No. He didn't. China did by requiring rare earth's to be licensed by them even when a company is trying to sell finished products like say GPU's used for mining.
Your GPU miner app would have been mining satoahis to a service, if you never reached the minimum withdrawal threshold then you never held any Bitcoin.
I hear ya. I don't chase the latest and greatest GPUs, but when my rig starts degrading and I needed to upgrade I was not happy about the new normal of GPU pricing.
and screwed over the consumer GPU market too. Now it's AI stuff screwing over the consumer market.
I mean it was manipulated since the beginning, we just didn’t care when you could mine it with a cheap GPU.
in this rabbit hole, i Started with Mining Ethereum testing the water first with 1 GPU (gtx 1070) then after first payment, i bought another 2 then after than another 2.. 5 GPU in total.. and then I studied Trading..
instead of playing useless games to receive useless tokens there is an alternative called gpu-mining...since 2014 there is a powcoin ( Vertcoin ) that while you play any game with your pc, in the background you can mine this powcoin with the gpu (without drops in fps obviously, otherwise it would be useless)...just go to vertcoin.org and start mining with their One-Click miner software that even a monkey can use because it's so simple...mining at home with the GPU is not dead yet...
Story is not accurate. In 2010 there were no “server farms” or ASIC rigs mining. In those early days users just mined on their computers (cpu). Then GPU. But the mining rigs you seem to be describing would have been 2013 or later. Also, BTC was not yet worth even $.30 in 2010. Throughout most of 2010 the BTC market value was only a few cents or even less than a sentence during the first half of the year. But there were no exchanges like we know today, and it was not so easy to buy. People would trade P2P and or mine on their computers.
By the time your profitable, you would realize investing the whole amount in bitcoin in the first place would have made you more money without any of the hassle. I missed out on 20+ bitcoin because I decided to invest in mining GPU when I started.
He wasn’t just some guy. He was Laszlo Hanyecz. A developer who directly worked with saotshi in the early days of the nextwork, as well as who created the first GPU mining software. He was [explicitly told by Satoshi](https://www.bitcoin.com/satoshi-archive/emails/laszlo-hanec/1/) that hoarding coins *early on* will stifle adoption. This was not a mistake and it’s honestly a tired ass thing to say lol
Aethir (ATH) - distributed GPU compute on demand
Post is by: TheFlamingoPower and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/CryptoMarkets/comments/1o084lx/cex_way_to_earn_passively_or_ocean_protocol/ Is anyone else keeping tabs on Ocean Nodes lately? Phase 1 wrapped up this summer and honestly, the numbers were insane — over 1.7 million nodes deployed across 70+ countries. That’s not small-scale testing anymore, that’s real global reach. The first phase proved that decentralized compute can actually work and scale beyond expectations. Now, everyone’s waiting on Phase 2, which was expected to kick off around September, but it seems we’re still in the prep and testing stage. The Ocean team is running GPU benchmark jobs to evaluate performance and stability before going fully live. It’s a smart move — this next step isn’t just about keeping nodes online, it’s about real compute power. Phase 2 will focus on GPU-based workloads like model training, fine-tuning, and AI tasks that actually use serious resources. Rewards will switch from uptime-based to performance-based, meaning your earnings depend on how much useful compute your node provides. There’ll also be upgraded dashboards, monitoring tools, and more control over your node setup. I really like where this is going — it feels like Ocean is evolving from a community experiment into something close to a decentralized AI cloud. Sure, we’re all impatient to see it live, but the direction looks solid. What do you all think? Do you see this model actually competing with centralized compute providers someday? Or is it still too early in the game? *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/CryptoMarkets) if you have any questions or concerns.*
> Now post the thread where this was published Sorry, you have to put in a little more effort into it than that, and actually use some critical thinking. This address comes from block #126. I picked one at random that matched the pattern clearly. It was mined 1/11/2009, 1:18pm UTC, 10.7 minutes after the previous block #125. The nonce in this block was 4,127,185,952 - 4.1 billion. This number was stepped by adding one every attempt, starting from 1 in the original code, which was released only 2 days prior. A typical miner in 2009 would step through about 330,000 attempts per second; A very fast miner about double that, a very slow one about half of that. Bitcoin code was single-threaded, but even if you forced it to use every core / processor back then, the nonce and extranonce patterns would still be the same. Reaching 4.1 billion at 330k per second is 3.5 hours of mining, but the previous block was 10.7 minutes prior. So either someone was running a single-threaded processor ten times faster than any other 2009 computer on the network, or this miner was running different code than both what we have publicly and every other miner in 2009. Further their extranonce in block 126 is 244. Extranonces started at 1, only increased 1) When a new block was received or 2) Once per minute when a new transaction was received, or 3) When nonce rolled over at 4,294,967,295 + 1. Nonce rolling over took about 3.5 hours of continuous mining **without finding or receiving either blocks or transactions**. So that was very rare. There were no transactions until block #170, so that's out. So the only reason in the original code remaining for extranonce to increase was when a new block was found. So taking Hal Finney's block #78 (known), his extranonce was 15, so he turned his miner on at approximately block (78 - 15) = 63. But for block #126? 126 - 244 = a negative number. Without transactions or huge time gaps, this could not have been generated by the original Bitcoin 0.1.0 code. And keep in mind, this is 2 days after release. That's not enough time for any other coders to have understood or tampered with something as complex as Bitcoin's mining code. Indeed, we don't see any probably non-satoshi miners breaking these patterns until at minimum months, but no one has nonce/extranonce patterns like Satoshi's until the first GPU miners in summer of 2010. All extranonces, including Satoshi's, increment up in series. Satoshi's step up significantly faster, and not in a predictable pattern. For example, here are a bunch of Druid's early blocks, which we confirmed by tracking them (and he later confirmed it publicly): https://imgur.com/GA3xs7l The "subtract" is height minus extranonce. The "subtract" value hovers around a specific number (the block height they started mining at) and every time their extranonce does anything other than go up, it is resetting and their "subtract" value jumps to a new spot. The Patoshi pattern blocks do some things similar with extranonces - they always increase until they are reset - but nonce and "subtract" values don't behave similarly: https://imgur.com/NXa0zBJ There's a further clue confirming that this can't be anything other than someone running some very fast custom software starting all the way with block #1-10. The bits of the nonce count up from 1 very quickly. Here's block #126's nonce visualized: https://imgur.com/JyhaVnM and here's Druid'd block #320: https://imgur.com/MUM54dl -- On normal blocks, the first few binary digits on the left are almost entirely going to start with 0 or 00 and mostly 000. Because they're incrementing numbers very fast starting from the right, the last 8 binary digits are going to be almost completely random. And they are - for all non-satoshi blocks. But satoshi blocks? Instead of being random, they all fall between 0 to 9 or 19 to 58. Never 59 to 255. Never 10-18. https://imgur.com/wlIRUBp It wasn't until 2020 that we had an explanation for why. There was never more than one of this type of pattern present - only a single miner. Blocks mined that followed this pattern spent almost none of their coins, ever. But of the few transactions this miner did do, we already know two of them to be tied to Satoshi - The famous transaction with Hal Finney, and the transactions described in Mike Hearn's mid-2009 emails. There's never any transactions from blocks that obviously follow this pattern that are co-spent with blocks that don't appear to be following this pattern. There are transactions that link different blocks, months apart, all of which follow this pattern, though. Thus, the only possibility for this #126 block is Satoshi.
It was about 10 years ago. ASICS might have been a thing but GPU mining was still profitable. I'm not really familiar with crypto and such. It was an app called cgiminer or something that we ran on these clusters of servers full of GPUs and it'd crank them to 100% constantly. It could be a backup of wallet or hardware wallet or just instructions on how to access. I can't really remember but I know there's a few USB sticks that are hidden in the case of servers in data centers. If it's a backup of wallet.dat can I still use this? I honestly completely forgot about all this and read about someone who bought a landfill because he lost his USB stick and it triggered my memory. I'm not responding to any DMs or asking for anything so if anyone tries then yes I'm a scammer. I'm purely looking for advice on what to do and how. I don't need the money so maybe will blow it on some toys or something internationally.
I understand where you’re coming from, but reading your own response you should realize holding DOT is not good. Sure, it will go up slightly during peaks, but that money would be way better in another coin you actually believe can do better, which also makes you more confident to allocate more with less risk, further increasing the gains. Imo DOT is currently just an empty blockchain technology that is way too convoluted for anybody to want to code on, and in turn there is hardly any service or product provided which then gives 0 incentive for price to increase and then yet again 0 reason to invest other than «market go up». I’m by no means a DOT expert but i held big amounts for a long time, seeing it had been huge last bull, until i started maturing in crypto and what makes a good investment. Yes, it can go 9999x even if it sucked due to some random youtuber or hype or 1 big institution, or maybe it will even announce insane news tomorrow morning contradicting everything i just said about lack of product. BUT, it is unlikely, and more importantly MORE unlikely than with many other good coins out there with great products and services generating real revenue. So why risk it for such a small reward? Anyway, thats just my thoughts. I also strongly stand by what i said about ATH > RENDER, which is a similar product also related to GPU/NVIDIA/AI, but RENDER is by no means a bad product. I just moved most my render over to ATH due to a superior service (imo) in roughly the same business, with higher revenue yet smaller market cap (easier to move price) as well as announced buybacks and a fresher/hotter/newer narrative regarding this cycle. Always DYOR though, and it seems you did no research on DOT. RENDER is probably good, ATH is just a suggestion, as it can have higher risk to reward imo. Peace
ASIC was out in 2013. That was after FPGA obliterated GPU mining. CPU mining was far gone even much earlier. By 2012 FPGA had dominated the mining. In 2014 GPU mining was marginally profitable on shitcoins. The best case scenario was OP mined on some shitcoin pools and forgot cashed out. Vaguely recall most mining pool required manual cash out at that time. Multicoin pool was invented in mid 2014. Before that shitcoin pools pay out in native shitcoins, not BTC.
I think it was $13 when I started I still don't own any of it outside of what I personally mind on my CPU back when GPU mining was first becoming a thing... I don't regret it. Who's going to speculate on what was a toy currency that people are spending 50,000 or whatever Bitcoin on a pizza
I am the one who sold equipment for 1 BTC. It would have taken about 1 month to mine the same amount on a $60 GPU
If you bought 1 BTC in 2010, you’d either be a millionaire today… …or you sold it in 2011 for a pizza, a new GPU, or because your hard drive “mysteriously vanished.” Everyone thinks they’d be rich if they bought back then. Truth is, the hardest part isn’t buying early—it’s holding through all the chaos.
Can you explain the decentralized GPU aspect? Can anyone contribute to the project? What benefits would I receive if I used my GPU for Vertical AI?
I actually was in before 2012. I had packed away the drive with the wallet in 2012 when I moved and stopped mining. Box went into a storage unit. Totally forgot about it until 3 moves later in 2019 when I finally bought a house and started unpacking boxes from storage in early 2020. Box full of hard drives and flash drives with an "Oh shit, no way!" realization of what I had found. Dust had become life changing money. Looked at the charts and said to myself, HODL just a little longer.....but I also sold a tiny bit right then to fund a small ETH farm just before GPU prices exploded. No regrets doing that either. So, I was able to diversify into alts before the big run too. Now I've got quite a few bags- some in the green now, some in the red. Doesn't matter, overall, I'm playing with house money now. My advice is this- 1) don't FAFO with the IRS. Pay your taxes on gains. Just expect they're going to want a 30% cut and try to find ways to offset that with paper losses. Take time to learn and understand the rules the whales play by. I love DeFi for this. 2) All or nothing- if it will substantially change your life at that moment, take profit. Don't sell for pizza or weed. 3) The market will swing, and hopefully selling made it easier for you to save for reinvesting when it's down. 4) Do contribute to traditional retirement vehicles like a 401k or ROTH IRA. We wanted institutional adoption, and we got it. I've made a killing on crypto ETFs in my ROTH IRA, and there are several that return dividends. That's tax-free money when I retire, and the goal is passive income. 5) Diversify and definitely invest in physical assets- gold and silver are great, but I also recommend lead, brass, and steel. Buy land and homestead it.
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Mining with a GPU is dead and now a completely dumb idea
I've been mining for years now. ASICs, GPUs, and FPGAs and even mined Helium. When I started, you could use your gaming PC GPU/CPU to make some actual money. For example, your 1070ti was pulling in $5-7/day on ETH near peak profit. This was well before companies started building warehouses for tens of thousands of GPUs and ASICs to run as a competitor to someone like you. Nowadays, as soon as something profitable to mine is developed, these companies move all those resources to mine as much as they can. As you're probably aware, the more resources on a project, the less each resource makes in revenue and profit. Now, your 1070 is not 1 generation behind, not 2, not 3, but is 4 generations behind. You can not compete against industrial miners with 5090s, h100s, fleets of asics, and fpgas. It's not possible. Unfortunately, you aren't going to make anything worth the effort. Even with a 5090, profit is in the negatives to a few pennies profit per day (on $0.08/kwh power rate) Your best bet in this industry is to work hard at something you're good at, make excess money, and invest that into BTC, ETH, or other bluechip coins. Do not buy memecoins or shitcoins and expect profit. Good luck
That ship has sailed if you're talking about the IOT miners like the Bobcat. You might actually make even less than your GPU mining at this point. The problem with Helium is that they split their token from HNT to also having IOT and MOBILE, so you had three different shitcoins fighting to hold any form of value instead of one. And then the users voted on and passed a HIP that killed off IOT and MOBILE, and forced all of their products to go back to HNT. So everyone liquidated their holdings in those two tokens, and I guarantee you there are people that still have these miners running with no idea how to update them to get HNT. And that's not even getting into the MOBILE hotspots that Helium is selling, separate from the IOT ones. The only thing that really makes sense to get involved with Helium on is their phone plan, which is actually pretty good. $20 a month for T-Mobile towers and you get HNT rewards just for sharing your phone's location data. Except ope, you can't get that phone plan anymore because they got sued by the SEC, lol. They did at least let people keep the $20 plan and HNT rewards if they were already on it. Now they have a free phone plan and a $15 monthly plan that's decent, but no HNT rewards. The only earning projects that I think are worth fiddling with right now are running a Mysterium VPN node, and running a Storj or Sia node. And both require you to have some technical knowledge as well as existing hardware to play with. I wouldn't recommend going out and buying gear just to do these.
I use Tari and it works perfectly fine for me — no issues at all. I don’t use the Tari Universe application though; instead, I transfer my XTM through a different site. On average, I earn around 200 XTM per day on my GPU and about 10 XTM per day on my CPU. I usually keep it running while I’m working, turn it off when I’m home, and then turn it back on before going to sleep. For me, it’s worth it since I’m not spending any money. I transfer everything over to ETM, and it’s been working great.
Nope. Bitcoin mining is done on ASIC chips that has nothing to do with GPU.
It's not an "attack" - this depends on the character set and the length of the password. You can utilize 10+ GPUs in parallel with fairly modern hardware to hit around 500 million passwords per second per GPU. For passwords using lowercase letters, symbols, and numbers, you're looking at the calculations below for 4-16 character passwords across different character sets. **Character Set Sizes:** * Lowercase only (a-z): 26 characters * Lowercase + numbers (a-z, 0-9): 36 characters * Lowercase + uppercase + numbers (a-z, A-Z, 0-9): 62 characters * Lowercase + uppercase + numbers + symbols: \~94 characters **Time to crack (worst case) with 10 GPUs @ 5 billion attempts/sec..** **4 characters** * 26\^4 = 456,976 combinations → <1 second * 36\^4 = 1.68M combinations → <1 second * 62\^4 = 14.8M combinations → <1 second * 94\^4 = 78.1M combinations → <1 second **8 characters** * 26\^8 = 209B combinations → \~21 seconds * 36\^8 = 2.8T combinations → \~9.3 minutes * 62\^8 = 218T combinations → \~12 hours * 94\^8 = 6.1Q combinations → \~35 days **12 characters** * 26\^12 = 95.4T combinations → \~5.3 hours .. starts to get fairly slow and impossible at longer passwords. Running this would be killer on electricity, pushing a system this far.
No, because no one knows. There are certainly some educated guesses, but nothing is certain. If you had 1000 societies \*identical\* to the one we have now, and let them evolve over the next 100 years, on some of them GPU manufacturers dominate, on some of them bitcoin dominates, etc. Everyone thinks "there's an investment that is going to win," but the reality is, it might. But on an identical planet it might completely fail.
What if a large part of Nvidia profit is generated from producing GPU miners that mine altcoins? Indeed, cryptocurrency does not produce anything, but I remember that some famous economist also said that human never produce anything, they just move things around. So human activities is all about moving things around, and cryptocurrency are moving value ownership around
instead of playing useless games to receive useless tokens there is an alternative called gpu-mining...since 2014 there is a powcoin ( Vertcoin ) that while you play any game with your pc, in the background you can mine this powcoin with the gpu (without drops in fps obviously, otherwise it would be useless)...mining at home with the GPU is not dead yet...
Kidding yourselves if you think this is about anything other than AI. Bitcoin mining is done almost exclusively via GPU, and so is training LLMs.
It’s just another story for people to launch cryptos and try to boost their coins off. If you understand crypto you know it’s low bandwidth, high latency and slow to converge. If you know about the technology AI firms are trying to use, specialized networking to connect massive GPU clusters together directly for lowest possible DMA etc, you’ll understand why it’s probably the worst application you could possible consider running on a blockchain.
Crazy how far mining hardware has come. Do you ever miss those early GPU mining days, or are you glad you don’t hear fans screaming 24/7 anymore?
Your claim on TAO and RNDR being down over the last 7 days does not match market data. Bittensor (TAO) showed a 0.9% increase over the past 7 days, trading around $347 with a market cap over $3.4 billion. Render (RNDR) experienced a minor 0.8% dip in the same period, but its overall sector momentum remains positive, with a market cap at $1.92 billion and trading volume up to $389.88 million weekly. The broader AI crypto sector added 11% to its market cap, reaching $33.9 billion in September alone, driven by listings and institutional inflows. These swings are not just hype; TAO's decentralized ML network has seen staking increases, and RNDR's GPU platform processed over $140 million in 24-hour volume. Dismissing them as slop ignores the underlying adoption metrics.
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I would pick Nosana NOS at almost 10x lower Marketcap (80 mil). They have a solid decentralized GPU Platform and a really professional team of mostly Dutch people. Only thing that has been lacking is marketing and social media activity, they have been heads down building since the start of their mainnet in January. Just recetly hired more people for socials and marketing. Starting a big Asian expansion soon. Tokenomics is great and NOS has been out for a very long time, no huge unlocks and duping by early investors, pretty much done. I would guess mostly up from here, it has started to pick up recently. Great community on discord and they listen to suggestions and feedback from anyone. Thank me later.
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Lost my 1 BTC the day before 2FA was offered as a feature on MtGox All was mined by my GPU at the time, took me a full month Mark Kapeles still pretends he's innocent
He was also at the forefront of the movement that started mining with GPU's. He's probably still loaded with BTC today
Parallax uses Ethash for PoW — there’s a CPU miner bundled in, and GPU mining will be totally viable from day one (lots of existing ETH PoW miners should work fine). The client is already implemented, and right now we’re focused on building traction so as many people as possible can run and mine at launch. Launch date + source code drop will be announced on @prlxchain. The client itself is based on geth, but with Bitcoin’s consensus rules integrated.
In the early days of Bitcoin, running a node and mining were synonymous, but that hadn't been true for a very long time. You can mine without a node. Running a node today is useful related to mining only in the fact that you can use it to build your own block templates and use it to broadcast a PoW to the network if one were to be found. There is no "switch" on a node to begin hashing with it. Hashrate significant enough to use for mining Bitcoin would only come from a source utilizing ASICs, not from a CPU or GPU source.
I read the github but still have a few questions When approximately is the launch date ? Will GPU mining be feasible early on ? Does the parallax client resemble Bitcoin Core ?
Dude. Regular folks with regular money talk to financial advisers too. He'll probably tell you to stick it all in an SP500 index fund and wait til you are 65 and live large when you are old. What I'll tell you to do is to cash out $10k. Stick 5 in savings for future emergencies/opportunities. And, have fun with 5. Get some nice clothes. Take a date to a fancy restaurant. Get a nice bottle of whisky. Upgrade your GPU. For the rest: Move it over to BTC and **put in a trailing stop loss.** Everyone expects a run up at at least $150K by then end of the year followed by a bear market through 2026 starting maybe as early as January. The market's being weird this cycle. So, who knows what'll happen. But, good news is the second-likely prediction is a slow steady climb straight through to mid 2026. In other news: We might be heading into DotComBubble 2.0. So, the SP500 is getting scary. And, we're likely running into runaway inflation. So, stock and real estate prices will go way up even though the real value won't change much because it's really just the dollar going down. So, if you want to get out of crypto, consider relatively-boring high-yield bonds.
These allies and enemies could just ignore it. They don't have to do anything. "America is buying these abandonware 2010 GPU Stress test tokens that do nothing, what do we do?"
> if the hash rate goes up, that mean more miners or more powerful mining hardware, right? Yep > And do we know what share of total global computing power Bitcoin mining represents? It's not really comparable to "global computing power", as there is nothing being computed in bitcoin mining. It's more like a super dumb (but super efficient) guessing hardware running, it's not like your general CPU or GPU hardware. You can't do anything else with a bitcoin mining chip (ASIC) except mining bitcoin.
Hashrate is level of computational power that asics are putting out, but it does not mean the network is more secure. The biggest threat to bitcoin outside of Sha256 being broken is most likely a 51% attack. There have been numerous times in bitcoin's history when the network was actually less secure and less decentralized despite hash rate continuously going up. When Laszo started GPU mining, hashrate jumped, but he had a good percentage of the network. If he had wanted to, he could have 51% attacked the network. We also saw this from the move to FPGAs and from FPGA's to asics. hashrate skyrocketed, but the network was becoming more centralized and more open to threats/pressure from a small group of miners who had connections to the chip manufacturers in China. I'm being a bit pedantic but I see this comment 100x a day and it's just not correct. I think we're mostly past the days where we will see the large increases in hashrate in a such a small period of time, but there's always the chance we do.
Mustve been fresh 2011 before the pump that took place around april/may of that year. BTC had nice moves back then but no way the GPU was that much. Because at 3 dollars a pop for 15k coins thats a 45k gpu. Which is insane by todays standards let alone 2011.
So he traded $40,000 worth of btc for a GPU?
Yes. Decentralization is great. But a Mac mining is nothing. Not even a rounding error, compared to the current network hash rate. Bitcoin network (Sept 2025): ~600 EH/s 600 EH/s = 600,000,000,000,000,000,000 hashes/s (6 × 10^20) High-end Mac (CPU/GPU mining): ~5 MH/s 5 MH/s = 5,000,000 hashes/s (5 × 10^6) Difference: (6 × 10^20) ÷ (5 × 10^6) = 1.2 × 10^14 = The Bitcoin network is about 120,000,000,000,000 times faster than a Mac. Effectively 0.
How much power is 32 TH/s? Can someone put it in GPU terms or something?
From my understanding that's not what quantum computing is for or useful for. You can't just load up a miner app and let it run. It's not like comparing it to being a faster CPU/GPU/ASIC. It's purpose and use is for entirely different use cases. Just thinking out loud here, but it could be that mining pools are a bigger threat due to solo miners no longer being able to compete. The more solo miners there are, the more decentralized it is and the more difficult it is to shut the network down. The more centralized pools become, say eventually 10, the easier it gets to shut it down such as was done with the Pirate Bay when they were moving servers all over the place.
100% - The last thing I want is a lambo or anything in that realm of showoff wealth. What the fuck is going on with people wearing watches? My "big" expense this year was upgrading my home built PC - I finally got a decent GPU and a nice monitor. Spent around $1800 getting fancy. Not because I'm a cheapskate, not because I'm afraid to spend my money or I don't have any or I think I'll lose it or any other weird fear. I just didn't have anything I cared to spend the money on...and then I did...so I did... and now I'm back to not spending much. I think that a lot of people think that they want a lot of "stuff" (for whatever reason). Then you see people with a lot of stuff (big house etc...) and you know what... it looks like work. Keeping it clean. Keeping it safe. That sounds like work - and my ass does not want to work!
I was 9 years old at the time Bitcoin launched so I don't blame myself but my dad who was so into the internet, he'd know all ways to hack and torrent stuff and everything like that. I stumbled upon some bitcoin sites as far as I remember because I used to have a laptop and my mom would restrict my internet access because she wanted me to study and make something out of my life. Damn if I'd have known I would've mined a lot on my laptop and have around 100-1k BTC in that time because mining difficulty was not that hard. I listened to my mom & studied anyways but that's just only giving me a normal job with a salary that just turns me off just hearing it. Again I don't blame myself because I was just 9-11 years old. Back in 2016 I was really in on the gaming scene & people would curse miners for the skyrocketing GPU prices & thought yeah I don't wanna be a guy who is cursed by other people so again I never got in on the BTC scene. My at the time older than me friend also said "Bitcoin is dead, miners are quitting and it'll never rise again" in 2016. Still have his messages saved and my Facebook group occasionally make fun of him and curse him because we trusted him with a lot of info back then and, AGAIN I never mined or got some because he said so.
Essentially, yes. That is the level of competition with just BTC mining these days, and it doesn't even consider the mining efforts placed into other tokens. It also explains why GPU mining (for BTC) has been pointless for quite awhile now. (Unless you're lottery mining.) It just takes far too much computing power to be competitive.
Decentralized AI has potential, but most current projects are still unproven. Running LLMs at scale is massively resource-heavy, so it’s unclear if blockchain + GPU networks can match centralized players. Still, if even a fraction of compute or data ownership can be decentralized, it could carve out a niche beyond pure hype
That's not a tragic bitcoin story. The man that bought the two pizzas was the man that invented GPU mining and that was the first time someone purchased something with bitcoin. It's an awesome story.
Probably still some GPU mined coins that *might* be barely profitable. But don't expect much.
Props for the persistence 🙌 You’re on the right track — getting the `wallet.aes.json`, narrowing down base passwords, and moving to Hashcat is exactly what most successful recoveries look like. From experience, huge wordlists aren’t as effective as **rules/masks** in Hashcat. Since you know your dad’s habits, focus on patterns (capitalization, numbers at the end, symbols, leetspeak) instead of brute forcing millions of random combos. It’s definitely realistic to crack yourself — GPU + smart rules > blind brute force. You’ve got a real shot here. Keep at it, and please share updates, they’ll help others too. 🙏 – CryptoByShivank
you can rent some mega GPU power from Google cloud or huggingface. I 10x'd the output of my good GPU for only a few bucks an hour. allows you to get way more liberal with your hashcat base wordlists and rules. knowing password length max, if special characters, numbers were used, if so where in the password vastly reduces the variations. if English words and minimal special chars/numbers used, you can borderline brute force a not so long password if you let it sit for a few weeks. godspeed. I hope you get a commission.
I disagree strongly on this advice. You can set up virtual private clouds where even the cloud provider doesn't have access. That and, if everything else is otherwise set up properly, aka Done Right, its no less secure that running locally on your gaming PC GPU. But h100 rented by the minute is MUCH much faster (6-10x faster) and MUCH more price efficient especially considering his small password list of 1MM. An H100 is currently about $7 an hour from AWS but available from many less premium cloud providers for cheaper.
When CRO first came out it was part of their rewards program. The old program that people like me took advantage of. The coin used to be a reward for debit card purchases. They would give us 5-10% in cash back if we used the debit master card for purchases. I was one of the first 100. I think the value was under a penny when I started using the card. I would purchase all my GPU’s and get 5% cash back in CRO @ .01. So every $1k purchased you got 5k CRO. This was before the price exploded.. Amassing over 500k coins. I sold most of them to build a second gpu mine but that’s some history on the coin. I think they canceled that program because i’m know for a fact I wasn’t the only one using in that manner most GOU miners got rich off of CRU just by building our mines. They didn’t even have to give us rewards back in those days it was so hard using crypto on a debit card we would have been happy with the ability to make purchases.
Take your base wordlist (the 1 mil variation) with hashcat and run it through some rules. There’s some “lighter ones” to start with like best64, dive and t0x1c. From there, check out OneRuleToRuleThemAll and SuperUnicorn. You can also try adding in some combinators. There’s some tools like this that can put the process on rails a little bit for you: https://github.com/trustedsec/hate_crack. Make sure you document which rules you use with which wordlists so you don’t duplicate effort. You’ll have to go into the config.json for hate crack and tweak a few things to fit within your setup but it’s not too too bad. For the GPU you’ll likely want to add “ -O “ to the hCatTuning line. Hashcat can be as much of an art as it is a science so be patient. I also suggest checking the Bandrel method in hate crack. You run through that and can put in those 20 base words you mentioned and it’ll iteratively build masks (the regex like stuff you mentioned) to brute force suffixes / appendices for your words and your base words in the config file. Hopefully the algorithm for the wallet itself is supported cause it will make life hella easier. Good luck anon. I hope you unlock your treasure.
Tensordock has some GPU / hour for rent. If you need. If you want, share any old email that your dad have it, I can search in some common pass list pawed that I have. If u prefer, msg me. There is any old computer? Laptop, agenda? Digital calculator, bina, bip… @aol , any other site that he uses that can be the same. Bank account manager. Good lucky! Hope u got it.
For Spamming but you have transaction prioritization based on many factors like balance and other , you have dynamic PoW for any new attempts you will need to generate more GPU work , multiple other changes ..
I think there’s a difference between “AI tokens” and actual decentralized AI infrastructure. Most of the tokens popping up are riding the buzzwords, but the core idea.. distributed GPU networks, open weights, verifiable inference - is legit and could solve the centralization problem you mentioned. That said, the hard part isn’t launching a token, it’s building reliable infra that devs and businesses actually use. Training/inference at scale needs consistency, low latency, and clear economics. If a decentralized network can match that, then you’ve got something that goes beyond hype. Exchanges listing early doesn’t necessarily validate the tech, it just shows they think traders want exposure. The real test will be whether projects like DecentralGPT can ship working models that people adopt. Until then, I’d treat most of these like experiments - interesting, but high risk.
tldr; AI-focused crypto projects raised $516 million in the first eight months of 2025, surpassing 2024's total funding, according to DefiLlama. Major investors like Bitwise, Pantera, and Binance Labs are backing these projects, which aim to create new asset classes such as datasets and autonomous agents. Despite concerns of an AI bubble, the sector is booming, with companies like Coinbase and Render Network innovating in areas like GPU access and AI-driven transactions. Experts predict significant economic impact, though challenges like GPU scarcity remain. *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.
Mining is just the process of running computation algorithms and calculations to discover new coins. Which means if you are the first one to guess some very complicated number you get to claim a coin. Kind of like going and digging for gold in a river. It used to be that you could mine from your personal computer when bitcoin was just out of the womb .. then it became toddler and you needed a respectable GPU to have a chance, the toddler learned how to ride a bike then you needed a network of several people (mining pool) to catch it running around and whoever catches the toddler got to share it with other so you’d get a piece (fraction) of it .. now days bitcoin is a wild teenager, you need a complete data center full of the most powerful GPUs to even have a chance and that costs a lot of money so only huge operations get to really discover those new coins, and that will keep exponentially getting harder. So it really doesn’t make any sense anymore to try to get free coins.. but hey, you still might get lucky! 🍀 hehe
Others already mentioned the feasibility of mining using GPU that probably get you next to nothing. Also what kind of game do you think is interesting enough that people willing to let you use their PC to mine Bitcoin? If you are thinking some simple games, don't bother, they are already gazillions of them, out there already. You'll probably need at least some AAA level kind of game. Are you willing to spend tens of millions to make this game with the potential that it will probably still flop?
You'd have a horribly performing game and almost no BTC coming in from it. CPU/GPU mining of Bitcoin has been unprofitable for a long time. The only result you'll get is a mountain of 1 star reviews.
With them knowing or hidden? If you're talking about in secret well then everything, ethics, trustworthiness, performance, legal risks. Even if you would be transparent then still performance is a huge issue on an already demanding video game. Then also the economics wouldn't even make sense mining Bitcoin on a gaming GPU is like ancient technology now compared to purpose built design Asics and miners otherwise. It's not going to be able to run both. Video games bring CPU's and GPU's to their knees and so does Bitcoin mining. The electricity cost would be extreme and hardware would fail sooner than later. I see nothing but cons actually
So theoretically, if I took one of my S19 miners back in time to 2012, how many coins would I mine per day compared to everyone else with a pc or GPU miner?
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> So how good are the AI GPU chips at mining crypto? bitcoin? Lousy and uneconomical for the cost of the silicon.
So how good are the AI GPU chips at mining crypto? If deepseek fails, taking over each crypto one by one is a pretty good middle finger to the usa
Haha I was about to say yeah, this was 12 years ago!! I mined a bunch in pools when the difficult was nonexistent. Back in those days, you could get away with a decent GPU and a public pool. Good times.
Okay fair enough. I get the Eric part. And it does make a difference. FWIW, I got into KAS during its GPU mining days before any of the ASICS took over, and although its not backed by Eric, the narrative then was "Oh trilemma solved", "Gonna replace ETH/SOL" , "KAS is now on-chain". Well its in the dumpster mate, and narratives run dry and attention is quick to shift elsewhere. KTA still needs a lot to prove other than its max TPS. That's all im sayin. NOT FUD.
Don’t put your $$$ all on red or black but the thing to do is increase your chances! The BEST narratives in crypto usually win. IMO it’s three categories. AI, DePin & RWA’s! Low cap coins are risky as hell and a lot of the time you’re going to lose 50% of your money BUT when things hit the HIT🔥🔥🔥 I’ve had a several 4x-7x by doing this. I’ll take that bet all day as long as I pick 6-10ish coins! Right now I’m in VertAI, GPU, TaoBot, HashAI, 0x0, PalmAI, Nosana & ZKML. Just keep an eye on those and wait for an ugly RED day to buy! A handful of those should easily 3x to 10X and the others might go to zero but who cares! That’s how you play the casino and win😎
>It's not an investment, you can say the same for everything if you aren't going to use it for any other purpose. BTC, same as any fiat currency for that matter, do not have inherent value since they are simply means of purchasing something else this is why these are investments, not resources >people still use old mining rigs because they are cheaper machines and use the heat from it to warm a place those are only economically efficient in countries where electricity prices are low, most first world users are not able to efficiently mine on older rigs anymore regarding the heating, a GPU is an immensely inefficient way to heat regarding the electricity and money input compared to the heat output, they would be much better off if they purchased designated heating appliances and it would cost them less also, if your argument really is that creating heat from electricity inefficiently poses any inherent value, it's from the GPUs, not from BTC. >Also you can stabilize a power grid using mining rigs to not waste energy. using computing centres is also not a really feasible way to to stabilize a power grid. these centres use about 1% of total electricity produced, you'd have to combine a lot of these to use as a backup for only the slightest of power spikes to make a difference the usual BTC mining rig in private hands is definitely not going to matter here - and again, if you see value in grid stabilization, then it's due to the big data centres (which are used overwhelmingly for other tasks than mining cryptocurrency), not due to most BTC mining setups if you really not want to waste energy, use renewable energy and efficient hardware to mine, if you must >You need to research more about Bitcoin if these arguments you posted were the best you could come up after researching BTC, I sure have not missed much. also, you still failed to point out any inherent value of BTC itself.
AI says - how many 5090s for one PH/s it depends on the hash mode (algorithm). An RTX 5090’s speed varies a lot by hash type in Hashcat benches. Using recent 5090 FE benchmarks: • NTLM (mode 1000): ~340 GH/s per 5090 → ~2,940 GPUs for 1 PH/s.  • MD5 (mode 0): ~220.6 GH/s → ~4,533 GPUs for 1 PH/s.  • SHA-1 (mode 100): ~70.2 GH/s → ~14,236 GPUs for 1 PH/s.  • MySQL323 (mode 200): ~544.7 GH/s → ~1,836 GPUs for 1 PH/s.  Rule of thumb: #GPUs ≈ (1,000,000 GH/s) ÷ (per-GPU speed in GH/s) because 1 PH/s = 1,000,000 GH/s.
They can't attack Doge coin. It uses Litecoins proof of work which is ASICs... Their a GPU coin they can't effectively mien scrypt. It's like brining a knife to a gun fight. Nothing will come of this.