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Topic: Is it possible to farm bitcoin with older networked computers? (Read 723 times)

legendary
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Err..?
But why?
You can farm with simple devices like the antminer U3 ~70 times faster than current gen computers, why would you want to downsize for more electricity consumption to mine bitcoin. You will only stuff yourself over in the long run, there are reasons for devices being created solely for mining SHA-256d (Bitcoin's algo) Computers are way too slow to do anything since early 2014. No profit will be made, electricity will be wasted. Don't try it Wink  

No but OP doesn't seem to know anything. If he mean to mine altcoins, its feasible. Then the payout can be in BTC, hence earning BTC.

@OP If you tell us what kind of hardware you have and what you pay for electricity it may be possible to point you to something worthwhile. But with merely old computers, without any decent GPU, that would be unlikely. And just to make it doubly clear. No you can't mine strait BTC without current, up to date dedicated BTC-mining machine "ASIC".
full member
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Hello there!
Err..?
But why?
You can farm with simple devices like the antminer U3 ~70 times faster than current gen computers, why would you want to downsize for more electricity consumption to mine bitcoin. You will only stuff yourself over in the long run, there are reasons for devices being created solely for mining SHA-256d (Bitcoin's algo) Computers are way too slow to do anything since early 2014. No profit will be made, electricity will be wasted. Don't try it Wink 
hero member
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I wouldn't consider it feasible. You can although mine other coins considering that the spec are sufficient.

If they have decent video cards then you could consider x11-15 type coins or even Quark or Qubit for that matter. My Nvidia 680M can get about 3 Mh/s on the x coins and about 8 Mh/s on the Quark and Qubit

If the CPUs are fairly recent and multi cored then you could look into Cryptonote based coins like Monero, Darknote, or Boolberry.
newbie
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If so could you please share any good tutorials or instructions on how to do so.

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