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Topic: VPS mining or CPU buying? (Scrypt-N) (Read 1126 times)

legendary
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December 06, 2014, 10:03:14 PM
#5
Riecoin is one of the few cpu-only coins out there.  Also gapcoin and magicoin.  XPM is gpu territory.

None of these coins are profitable to mine unless you have under-the-table renting deals, cheap / free electricity, or some other means of skirting the normal costs of mining.
hero member
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December 06, 2014, 09:25:55 PM
#4
Very few CPU only coins, and to answer your question easiest would be Amazon AWS if you can rent at a price that is profitable to mine the coin.
newbie
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December 06, 2014, 04:54:56 PM
#3
Well, I believe there are CPU-only algorithms (though I cannot provide an example(XPM?)). Imagine a CPU-only coin. What about answering the question?
jox
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December 06, 2014, 04:38:06 PM
#2
I'm talking about mining with a CPU-only algorithm (say, scrypt-N or scrypt-jane).

 Cheesy
newbie
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December 06, 2014, 04:36:31 PM
#1
Basically, the question is stated in the subject of topic: what is more money-efficient, to rent 100 dedicated servers or to buy 100 CPUs?

I'm talking about mining with a CPU-only algorithm (say, scrypt-N or scrypt-jane).
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