Hello,
I'm doing an academic project where I need some network traffic produced by bitcoin miners. I tried to mine bitcoin myself with a GPU for some hours, but I only got rejected shares because of low difficulty. Even though this somewat helps with the project, it would be way better to have some actual traffic with accepted shares and stuff.
I was wondering if I should just keep trying waiting for a share or two to be accepted (or maybe I got the cgminer configuration wrong?), or if I shoud buy a cheap asic usb, and try to mine with that. Any recomendations with what would be the best solution?.
Thanks!
I think Bitcoin pools no longer accepts GPU mining so this is the reason why you can't mine bitcoin with GPU.
If you are willing to start mining with ASIC you can find the list of ASIC miner from here
https://asicminervalue.com including the daily profitability.
USB Dongle or Antminer u1/u2/u3 is no longer support in some pools due to low hashrate but if only for your academic project you can try the antminer T9 it is cheaper around $150.
Check this T9 from here
https://shop.bitmain.com/product/detail?pid=00020181023190821920tviTz8HX06EA