Mining with a Well Connected Linux Server

NotFuzzyWarm

legendary

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Evil beware: We have waffles!

As I just posted in a similar thread:
Read https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitcoin-mining-intro-rules-of-this-subforum-read-before-posting-2415854 mainly point-3
BTC can only be mined on ASIC-based hardware. And YES it does apply to servers!

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It would cost you thousands of dollars in electricity per year to earn only a few cents in bitcoin. Even if you combined all the computers in the world, including all known supercomputer, you would not even approach 0.1% of the bitcoin hashrate today.

A variety of other coins can be mined on a PC/server but discussion of those belongs in the altcoin areas of the Forum. Services such as NiceHash can *pay* you in BTC but that is wholly different from mining it and again discussion about that belongs elsewhere.

Biffa

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It would cost more in electricity than you would ever make

GregSims

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We have excess capacity on a Intel Gold 16 core(32 thread)/32GB Linux Server running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. We can allocate 8 Cores(16 Threads) to mining. We are currently using One Amp of power at 220V and can use an additional One Amp without additional cost. We are connected to a Colocation 1 Gbps port in an area that is well connected to the Internet -- Santa Clara, CA. We only have 1U of rack space so we would like to try a software only approach or perhaps physically small usb attached hardware.

Our goal in mining is to offset the cost of our server hardware and colocation fees. I have read the pinned thread above but it does not seem to apply to servers.

I know this is a difficult question. If we can generate some effectiveness data from mining in this environment without a huge effort, I would like to give it a try. The ideal scenario would be to load a software package, hit start and monitor the resulting data. A push in the direction would be helpful.

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