What SHA-256 coins are worth mining?

shanzhaibiguancha

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Quote from: Nullu on December 24, 2013, 08:05:29 PM

Seeing as I'm both CPU mining and GPU mining, and have a spare USB block eruptor that I'm not using, I may as well point it at something.

I'm familiar with quark and scrypt coins, but not really too familiar with the SHA-256 coins, other than Bitcoin, obviously. I've got a rig set up elsewhere that's switch pool mining, but I'd like to use this spare one to speculate a little.

SH256 - Fireflycoin www.fireflycoin.com
GPU-dogecoin
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Nullu

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Quote from: markm on December 24, 2013, 08:16:44 PM

The merged-mined coins.

If you are only merged-mining with a block-eruptor or a few block-eruptors, the chance of finding a block of any of the child chain coins that is already on a public merged-mining pool is so slim you might feel that you can afford to leave them out of the merge, afterall you could get those just by using a public merged mining pool; but CoiLedCoin and GeistGeld are not included in the merge of any public merged mining pool that I know of and are thus low enough difficulty - especially GeistGeld - that even just a single block eruptor might well still be able to find blocks reasonably. So you could set up p2pool to only merge those two alongside the primary chain. The bitcoins would pay the electricity so it would even be funded speculation thus pretty much risk-free.

-MarkM-

Merged-mining is a new concept to me. Mind pointing me in the right direction to educate myself? Much appreciated.

markm

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The merged-mined coins.

If you are only merged-mining with a block-eruptor or a few block-eruptors, the chance of finding a block of any of the child chain coins that is already on a public merged-mining pool is so slim you might feel that you can afford to leave them out of the merge, afterall you could get those just by using a public merged mining pool; but CoiLedCoin and GeistGeld are not included in the merge of any public merged mining pool that I know of and are thus low enough difficulty - especially GeistGeld - that even just a single block eruptor might well still be able to find blocks reasonably. So you could set up p2pool to only merge those two alongside the primary chain. The bitcoins would pay the electricity so it would even be funded speculation thus pretty much risk-free.

-MarkM-

Nullu

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Seeing as I'm both CPU mining and GPU mining, and have a spare USB block eruptor that I'm not using, I may as well point it at something.

I'm familiar with quark and scrypt coins, but not really too familiar with the SHA-256 coins, other than Bitcoin, obviously. I've got a rig set up elsewhere that's switch pool mining, but I'd like to use this spare one to speculate a little.

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