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Topic: Is GPU mining for bitcoins obsolete? (Read 1274 times)

hero member
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December 08, 2013, 01:51:42 PM
#10
because there is still scrypt mining instead.
sr. member
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December 08, 2013, 01:48:27 PM
#9
If gpu's are obsolete for mining, why is it that amd radeon gpu's are ALL sold out EVERYWHERE?
newbie
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December 08, 2013, 04:55:11 AM
#8
Alt curencies will work for gpu well
sr. member
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December 06, 2013, 05:41:15 AM
#7
Is PPcoin mining prevalent? With the cost of ASIC miners. Mining PPCoin should be prohibitively expensive to many.
Actually revenue for mining PPC was at about 150% of mining BTC a couple of days ago, currently down to 75% of revenue compared to mining BTC directly. With the current crypto-currency craze you will often find a couple of days worth of demand for some weird currency in exchanges like cryptsy at a good rate. You need to calculate in fees to moving coins out of those exchanges as well though. Margins are getting slimmer lately though, too many spreadsheet warriors around ...
newbie
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December 06, 2013, 05:10:55 AM
#6
What about peercoins? Can those be mined using GPU or is ASIC a must?
PPC is SHA256 based. In other words, an ASIC is necesarry. With a GPU you can only reasonably mine SCRYPT based currencies, e.g. LTC, FTC, DGC etc.

Is PPcoin mining prevalent? With the cost of ASIC miners. Mining PPCoin should be prohibitively expensive to many.
sr. member
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December 06, 2013, 04:58:32 AM
#5
What about peercoins? Can those be mined using GPU or is ASIC a must?
PPC is SHA256 based. In other words, an ASIC is necesarry. With a GPU you can only reasonably mine SCRYPT based currencies, e.g. LTC, FTC, DGC etc.
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legendary
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Ruu \o/
December 06, 2013, 04:51:48 AM
#4
HI,

Is GPU mining for bitcoins obsolete given the ascent of ASIC miners?


Yes, long ago now.
newbie
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December 06, 2013, 04:47:51 AM
#3
Yes, but you can mine for non SHA-256 coins, like LTC.
There are no ASIC competition on mining this type of coins. Yet !


What about peercoins? Can those be mined using GPU or is ASIC a must?
hero member
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'All that glitters is not gold'
December 06, 2013, 04:40:21 AM
#2
Yes, but you can mine for non SHA-256 coins, like LTC.
There are no ASIC competition on mining this type of coins. Yet  Smiley
newbie
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December 06, 2013, 04:02:45 AM
#1
HI,

Is GPU mining for bitcoins obsolete given the ascent of ASIC miners?

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