Topic: Newegg no longer accepts bitcoin? (Read 2780 times)

Quote from: Kiloday on July 13, 2014, 12:18:59 AM

Those "mining starter packs" and "mining kits" on that page aren't for Bitcoin mining are they? Surely they must be for Litecoin or altcoin mining?

They can technically be used for any kind of mining but they are likely marketed towards scrypt based mining.

They are more likely trying to make money out of low reseach of people.

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Quote from: Harley997 on July 12, 2014, 11:15:50 PM

Quote from: Kiloday on July 13, 2014, 12:18:59 AM

Those "mining starter packs" and "mining kits" on that page aren't for Bitcoin mining are they? Surely they must be for Litecoin or altcoin mining?

They can technically be used for any kind of mining but they are likely marketed towards scrypt based mining.

Well most of the cost of the mining kits is due to the multiple graphics cards so it must be for scrypt or altcoin mining since there's really no point in mining Bitcoin with GPUs anymore. I don't see any mention of Litecoin on that page however. Just Bitcoin. Weird.

It was on the Bitcoin landing page so obliviously people with some level of interest of bitcoin would be looking at it. Many people who are interested in bitcoin are smart enough to figure out that GPU mining is not advisable and that GPU can still be used with scrypt based mining (although not for long with new ASICs for scrypt).

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AMD GPUs are faster but the middle one comes with six graphics cards whereas the others only come with three.

Yeah but they're invidia GPUs, they're less effective than AMD ones for mining scrypt. That's why I made this assumption. This doesn't apply to all other algos though.

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Quote from: Harley997 on July 12, 2014, 11:15:50 PM

Quote from: alani123 on July 12, 2014, 11:22:09 PM

Those "mining starter packs" and "mining kits" on that page aren't for Bitcoin mining are they? Surely they must be for Litecoin or altcoin mining?

They can technically be used for any kind of mining but they are likely marketed towards scrypt based mining.

Well most of the cost of the mining kits is due to the multiple graphics cards so it must be for scrypt or altcoin mining since there's really no point in mining Bitcoin with GPUs anymore. I don't see any mention of Litecoin on that page however. Just Bitcoin. Weird.

Those "mining starter packs" and "mining kits" on that page aren't for Bitcoin mining are they? Surely they must be for Litecoin or altcoin mining?

Pretty sure the middle one is for algorithms other than scrypt. It already has asics plus AMD GPUs are faster when it comes to solving scrypt. Surely GPUs are not for bitcoin mining too.

AMD GPUs are faster but the middle one comes with six graphics cards whereas the others only come with three.

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Those "mining starter packs" and "mining kits" on that page aren't for Bitcoin mining are they? Surely they must be for Litecoin or altcoin mining?

Pretty sure the middle one is for algorithms other than scrypt. It already has asics plus AMD GPUs are faster when it comes to solving scrypt. Surely GPUs are not for bitcoin mining too.

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Those "mining starter packs" and "mining kits" on that page aren't for Bitcoin mining are they? Surely they must be for Litecoin or altcoin mining?

They can technically be used for any kind of mining but they are likely marketed towards scrypt based mining.

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