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Re: uTorrent EpicScale bitcoin miner
by
NeuroticFish
on
10/03/2015, 14:18:36 UTC
Quote from: NUFCrichard on March 10, 2015, 01:50:56 PM
https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/harvard-student-uses-14000-core-supercomputer-mine-dogecoin/
That is the story I remembered. A 14,000 core supercomputer, but it was only about as good as 13 good GPUs. I think that is a good representation of how bad CPUs are at mining Bitcoin/Litecoin/Dogecoin.
If you insist, here is a copy of the story.
http://www.cio.com/article/2375474/security0/hacked-synology-nas-systems-used-in-high-profit-cryptocurrency-mining-operation.html
I consider $600k quite an amount of money. And it was on CPU!