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Topic: Campus Mining for a social good (Read 204 times)

sr. member
Activity: 1246
Merit: 274
December 09, 2017, 06:46:02 PM
#6
You cannot equate hashrate between different coins, let alone different algorithms. You need to find out the hashrate of a particular algorithm and then use a site like www.whattomine.com to get an idea of how much that hashrate could net on a particular coin (based on the difficulty and exchange rate at that time only).
newbie
Activity: 3
Merit: 0
December 09, 2017, 12:46:23 AM
#5
My school has agreed to lend their computers for my student group to mine altcoins for a social good. We plan to donate all profits to a charity. We have access to hundreds of computers to mine over the summer and winter break.

These computers are running on:
Windows 10 Enterprise
Intel i7-4790 3.6GHz
8 GM RAM

We don't have any funds for GPUs, so we are thinking about sticking with CPU intensive coins.

What suggestions would you guys have to fully take advantage of this scenario?

You could mine cryptonight based coins & do pretty well.

Wouldn't monero get me like 200 h/s? That seems very slow to me. I was thinking something along the lines of magi or zcoin.
legendary
Activity: 1176
Merit: 1015
December 08, 2017, 08:02:46 PM
#4
Nice!

When you get it up and running do you mind sharing that address you are mining to?

I mean it would be really nice to see how much money is flowing into social good and charity.
sr. member
Activity: 1246
Merit: 274
December 08, 2017, 07:41:45 PM
#3
Electroneum is hugely profitable right now. You could also mine Monero or AEON as good alternatives. I haven't tested it myself, but Biblepay is supposedly profitable for CPU mining and it's definitely in line with supporting charity (they sponsor orphans).
hero member
Activity: 714
Merit: 512
December 08, 2017, 07:37:29 PM
#2
My school has agreed to lend their computers for my student group to mine altcoins for a social good. We plan to donate all profits to a charity. We have access to hundreds of computers to mine over the summer and winter break.

These computers are running on:
Windows 10 Enterprise
Intel i7-4790 3.6GHz
8 GM RAM

We don't have any funds for GPUs, so we are thinking about sticking with CPU intensive coins.

What suggestions would you guys have to fully take advantage of this scenario?

You could mine cryptonight based coins & do pretty well.
newbie
Activity: 3
Merit: 0
December 08, 2017, 06:34:52 PM
#1
My school has agreed to lend their computers for my student group to mine altcoins for a social good. We plan to donate all profits to a charity. We have access to hundreds of computers to mine over the summer and winter break.

These computers are running on:
Windows 10 Enterprise
Intel i7-4790 3.6GHz
8 GM RAM

We don't have any funds for GPUs, so we are thinking about sticking with CPU intensive coins.

What suggestions would you guys have to fully take advantage of this scenario?
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