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Board Mining software (miners)
Re: Best Bitcoin mining software for linux?
by
kano
on 21/12/2022, 17:34:07 UTC
... and CPU/GPU mining was removed from cgminer long ago because it is an abhorrent waste of energy.
Mining with a GPU on Bitcoin it utter stupidity.
I still think you should rename it, The "cg" in cgminer stands for cpu gpu miner... aminer? asicminer?
Yeah I can pull the IRC records of the discussion back in 2012.
I came up with ... BFG ... Bitcoin FPGA GPU miner (and of course it also means Big Fucking Gun)
Someone, who happened to be in the IRC channel at the time, stole that name shortly after that ...

But anyway, yeah it didn't change back when we removed CPU and it isn't going to happen now.

It really doesn't matter what the letters mean, it's a name and it stays.

It's like asking what the fuck does Coke mean?
Well it means it has cocaine in it. Yep Coke originally had cocaine in it.
Then they stopped doing that ... ... ... but didn't change the name.